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- Read more about Aspirin component holds promise for treating Alzheimer's
A component of aspirin can block a cell death associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, a new study says.

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- Read more about WHO, UNICEF support Myanmar's polio vaccination campaign
The World Health (WHO) Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) support Myanmar's Ministry of Health to conduct a polio vaccination campaign in 102 townships across the country, a joint statement from WHO and UNICEF.
- Read more about National University for Rehabilitation to come up in Thiruvananthapuram
The central government will invest Rs.1,700 crore to transform the NISH here into the National University for Rehabilitation Sciences and Disability Studies for the benefit of the disabled, union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thaawar Chand Gehlot said on Saturday.
- Read more about New project to quickly bring cancer cures to clinical trials
Potentially life-saving therapies for cancer will be accelerated into clinical trials more quickly due to a pioneering project launched by scientists and clinicians at the University of Sheffield.
- Read more about New test to quickly spot pancreatic cancer
By collecting samples from the portal vein -- which carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, including from the pancreas, to the liver -- physicians can learn far more about a patients pancreatic cancer than by relying on peripheral blood from a more easily accessed vein in the arm, says a study.
- Read more about Fortis heart institute can now conduct high-ethical research
Fortis Escorts Heart Institute (FEHI) has become first corporate hospital in India to get accredited by an international forum to conduct high-ethical standard research.
- Read more about Customised diabetes care effective for women, not men
Personally tailored diabetes care reduces mortality - both all-cause and diabetes-related - in women but not men, a study has found.
- Read more about Scientists record real-time dopamine release in Parkinson's patients
Scientists have reported first-ever measurements of a key neurotransmitter involved in learning with unprecedented precision in the brains of people with Parkinson's disease.
- Read more about Using Western BP guidelines may up stroke risk in Asian patients
European and North American blood pressure guidelines, issued last year, may actually increase the stroke risk if adapted for Asian patients, particularly the elderly, experts have warned.
- Read more about Adolescent deaths from AIDS tripled since 2000: Unicef
The number of adolescent deaths from AIDS has tripled over the last 15 years, most of the patients having acquired the disease when they were infants, according to new data released on Friday by Unicef.

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