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Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 - Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. A phtalate used to make plastics softer has been linked to heart disease deaths around the globe, according to a new study published in The Lancet's EBioMedicine Journal. Phthalates are the common chemical used to make plastics and have been linked to several health conditions including cancer, diabetes, ...

Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 - A new study identifying 56 non-clinical risk factors associated with sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), spanning lifestyle, physical measures, psychosocial factors, socioeconomic status, and the local environment, offers compelling evidence that improving these unfavorable profiles could prevent up to 63% of SCA cases. The article appearing in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology , published by Elsevier, provides new ...

Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2025 - The results from an ambitious cancer study are giving hope that immunotherapy drugs alone can treat some gastrointestinal tumors, eliminating the need for severe, life-altering surgeries and other harsh therapies. For as long as cancer treatment has existed, "cutting it out has been the best way to cure it," said Luis Diaz, a gastrointestinal medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York ...