Oncology & Cancer
Global burden of melanoma considerable, set to rise by 2040
The global burden of melanoma is considerable and is expected to increase by 2040, according to a study published online March 30 in JAMA Dermatology.
Mar 30, 2022
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Health
Social science missing from Asia's COVID-19 response
Policy-makers should engage more closely with social scientists to understand the socio-economic, cultural and political contexts behind the behaviors we need to change in response to global crises.
Feb 28, 2022
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Cardiology
Dangerous bleeding strokes disproportionately affect Asian American, Pacific Islander adults
Asian and Pacific Islander adults in the U.S. are disproportionately affected by a deadly type of stroke that causes bleeding into the brain, according to new research that also shows they experience these strokes at a younger ...
Feb 8, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Across Asia, spike in virus cases follows Lunar New Year
Many Asian countries are facing a spike in COVID-19 infections after the widely-celebrated Lunar New Year holidays, as health officials grapple with the highly-transmissible omicron variant and expectations that numbers will ...
Feb 7, 2022
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Medical research
New study of primary liver cancer calls for strategies targeting heterogeneous tumors
Clinicians, scientists from the National Cancer Center Singapore (NCCS) and institutional collaborators have described a dynamic genomic landscape of tumor heterogeneity in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This research comes ...
Dec 13, 2021
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Health
Childhood anemia linked to anemia in pregnancy
Babies born to women with anemia during pregnancy have an increased risk of childhood anemia, according to a study carried out in rural India.
Dec 3, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New study shows link between weather and spread of COVID-19
A new meta-analysis of over 150 research papers published during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the link between the weather and the spread of the illness.
Nov 24, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
The confinement-eliminated circulating coronavirus variants during the first wave in Spain
The most complete studies on the variants of the coronavirus that dominated the first waves in Spain have just been published in Nature Genetics. The study was carried out by the SeqCOVID consortium, which includes more than ...
Sep 28, 2021
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Health
Will mask wearing still be common in Britain after the pandemic is over?
Face masks have been a crucial part of the UK's strategy to contain COVID-19, but have also evoked contradictory emotions and reactions. Some see masks as an important means to halt the virus's spread, as well as a sign of ...
Aug 9, 2021
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Vaccination
AstraZeneca searching for vaccines for virus-hit Southeast Asia
Drugmaker AstraZeneca said Saturday it was scouring its supply chain to find more doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for Southeast Asia, which is facing its most serious outbreak yet of the virus.
Jul 24, 2021
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