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New guidelines for breast cancer screening and diagnosis help people understand their personal risk

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) has released new NCCN Guidelines for Patients®: Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis to help people understand their personal risk of breast cancer, when they should start screening, and how often to do it-; detect cancer earlier, for more treatment options and better outcomes. With this information, they are equipped …

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‘Unusual circumstances’: Two sisters identified after bodies found in Sydney unit

The bodies of Asra and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli “were believed to have been there for a while” when they were found in separate rooms of their Canterbury home on June 7, police said. Its owner had become concerned about the food left in the complex’s common areas and contacted the police. “The circumstances are a …

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Seven teenagers arrested after SUV crashes into Oxley home following report of dangerous driving 150km away in Blackbutt

Police have arrested seven teenagers after a stolen SUV seen driving dangerously near Blackbutt crashed into a house 150 kilometers west of Brisbane. Queensland Ambulance Service said there were seven people in the black BMW when it crashed. Police were first alerted to the car driving dangerously near Blackbutt in the South Burnett region at …

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Australia News LIVE: Inflation hits 6.1 percent; Pauline Hanson rejects Indigenous recognition, rejects validity as Labor introduces climate bill to parliament

Meanwhile, Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has accused the Albanian government of “playing politics with older Australians”. The comments came after Aged Care Minister Anika Wells introduced new legislation with the government’s key election promise to put a registered nurse in every residential care home great 24 hours a day. The minister then introduced a …

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Almost 50% of Australians had been infected with Covid by mid-June, blood survey shows

Almost half of all Australian adults had been infected with the Covid-19 virus by June this year, according to a national report. The finding comes from a serological survey of antibodies to the virus detected in blood donations, conducted at the Kirby Institute and the National Center for Immunization Research and Surveillance (NCIRS). The researchers …

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Complex nanoparticles could increase osteogenesis in implants

Graphene has found widespread applications in the field of bone tissue engineering due to its favorable physical and biological properties. Furthermore, the unique properties of graphene, including the large surface area and flexibility of surface functionalization, make it a potential candidate for applications in bone tissue engineering. Study: Graphene-decorated strontium functionalized with bovine serum albumin …

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Why declaring monkeypox a global health emergency is a preventative step, not a cause for panic

United Nations member countries are required to report cases of unusual diseases that may become threats to global health. In May 2022, more than a dozen countries in Europe, the Americas, and other regions of the world that had never previously had cases of monkeypox began reporting cases occurring within their borders. In response, the …

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How has vaccination shaped the global evolutionary trajectory of SARS-CoV-2?

In a recent study published on the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers developed a maximum likelihood (ML) model to capture the evolutionary dynamics of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) across multiple geographic regions. In addition, they quantified the impact of vaccination and previous infection on the rate of antigenic changes between SARS-CoV-2 variants. Study: …

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