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Mar 2026
New strategy targets Porphyromonas gingivalis without harming healthy microbes
For years, treating gum disease has meant scraping away plaque, cutting out damaged tissue or turning to antibiotics that kill bacteria indiscriminately.
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Mar 2026
Gut bacteria may explain differences in peanut allergy reactions
One of the big mysteries in food allergy is why two people with similar levels of peanut specific antibodies can react so differently. It turns out the answer may be in the mouth and gut's bacteria.
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Mar 2026
Innovative peptide stapling system targets hard-to-treat cancers
Researchers at the University of Bath have developed a new technology that uses bacteria to build, chemically stabilize, and test millions of potential drug molecules inside living cells, making it much quicker and easier to discover new treatments for difficult-to-treat cancers.
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Mar 2026
Study links high-fat diet to faster breast cancer progression
If you're diagnosed with breast cancer, what should you eat to ensure the best prognosis?
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Mar 2026
Minimally invasive ablation effective for early-stage kidney cancers
A large national study in Denmark following nearly 1,900 patients over almost a decade found that a minimally invasive procedure called ablation is as effective as surgery for treating small kidney cancers, with faster recovery and fewer complications. Results of the study were published today in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
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Mar 2026
Are socially isolated people more likely to develop cancer? Study of 350,000 adults explores the risk
A large UK Biobank study of more than 350,000 adults found that social isolation, but not loneliness alone, was associated with a modest increase in overall cancer risk during over 11 years of follow-up. The association was stronger in women and appeared partly linked to socioeconomic disadvantage, unhealthy behaviors, and inflammatory processes.
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Mar 2026
Iron found essential for growth and survival of beta cells
An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and UZ Brussel, has made a major breakthrough in the study of how our bodies maintain healthy blood sugar levels.
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Mar 2026
New collaboration explores familial inflammatory bowel disease in Saudi Arabia
Mount Sinai and King Saud University Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, today announced a three-year collaboration aimed at better understanding why inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) runs in some Saudi families, and how that knowledge can lead to risk ascertainment, earlier diagnosis and more personalized treatment options.
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Mar 2026
Substance use among healthcare workers linked to poorer patient care
Their job is to protect, promote, and restore human health and lives, but healthcare workers believe that their own use of alcohol and illegal drugs reduces the quality of care they provide to patients.
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Mar 2026
Study finds widespread microplastics in children and suggests diet may shape exposure
Researchers detected 19 types of microplastics in the urine of 10-year-old children, with particles present in over 91% of samples and a median concentration of 250 particles per milliliter. Greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with shifts in specific microplastic polymers, suggesting dietary patterns may influence exposure pathways.
