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Health and Medicine

Nearly One in Five People with Vision Loss Come Across Bogus Treatments

30 September 2026

An international study of nearly 1,000 people living with sight loss has found that almost one in five had encountered eye treatments they believed to be “bogus”. Led by researchers at University College London (UCL),…

AI Innovation Could Reduce Toxic Dust Risks for Millions of US Workers

28 September 2026

More than 2.2 million U.S. workers are exposed to hazardous airborne dust from rock, sand or coal on the job,…

Why Do Some People Have Vaccine Side Effects While Others Don’t?

26 September 2026

Redness or pain at the injection site, fever, fatigue and headaches are common side effects of vaccination, but not everyone…

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Artificial Intelligence

Affordable AI Is Driving Change in Health Care Logistics

7 July 2026

Managing medical supply chains in low- and middle-income countries can be particularly difficult when health systems face sudden and unpredictable disruptions. In Sierra Leone, political instability, infectious disease outbreaks and widespread power failures can all…

Artificial Intelligence Offers Promise in Identifying Advanced Heart Failure

12 May 2026

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) approach that may help doctors identify patients with advanced heart failure more…

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Science

The Changing Science of Ageing: New Perspectives on the Biology of Growing Older

1 August 2026

As recently as the mid-20th century, ageing was described by Nobel Prize laureate Peter Medawar as “an unsolved problem in biology”. Today, researchers can analyse the activity of thousands of genes in individual cells and…