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Full-Fat Cheese May Lower Dementia Risk, But the Story Is More Complex
A 25-year study links full-fat cheese to lower dementia risk, and the implications reach far beyond what you put on your crackers.
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Tanning Beds Mutate DNA Across the Entire Body, Not Just Exposed Skin
New genomic research shows tanning beds seed dangerous DNA mutations across nearly the entire body, not just where the light hits.
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A Single Enzyme Mutation Is Quietly Rewiring How Scientists Think About Dementia
A structural feature inside a single enzyme may be doing more to protect neurons from dementia than scientists ever realized.
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A Mitochondrial Protein Is Rewriting What We Know About Aging
Mice engineered to run their mitochondria more efficiently lived longer and stayed healthier — and the implications stretch far beyond the lab.
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A New Alzheimer's Study Suggests the Brain Can Recover. Here's What That Means.
Scientists reversed Alzheimer's in mice by targeting the brain's energy crisis, raising a question the field has long avoided: what if the damage isn't permanent?
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21 Mar 2026
An Experimental Drug Targets Alzheimer's Before the First Memory Fades
For decades, the clinical story of Alzheimer's disease has begun with forgetting — a name, a face, the way home. But the biological story, researchers are inc
21 Mar 2026
Scientists Find a Metabolic Weak Spot in the Drug-Resistant Fungus Candida auris
Candida auris arrived in hospitals quietly, then didn't leave. Since it was first identified in a Japanese patient's ear canal in 2009, this single-celled fungu
21 Mar 2026
The Blood Flow Fix That Could Reframe How We Treat Dementia
For decades, the dominant story of dementia has been one of plaques and tangles — the sticky protein deposits that accumulate in the brain and became the cent
21 Mar 2026
Sudan at 1,000 Days: How a Collapsing Health System Feeds Its Own Disaster
When the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces opened fire on each other in April 2023, few analysts predicted the conflict would still be burning
21 Mar 2026
WHO Warns Weak Drink Taxes Are Fueling a Global Health Crisis
The World Health Organization has a blunt message for governments around the world: the drinks are too cheap, and people are dying because of it. In two new glo
21 Mar 2026
Men Are Losing the Y Chromosome With Age — and the Consequences May Be Severe
Every man carries a Y chromosome in nearly every cell of his body. It is the genetic signature of biological maleness, the chromosome that triggers testosterone
21 Mar 2026
The Case for Eating Your Skincare: Vitamin C Works From the Inside Out
The skincare industry has spent decades convincing consumers that the path to better skin runs through a serum bottle. Vitamin C, in particular, has become one
20 Mar 2026
Clogged Brain Drains May Be the Earliest Warning Sign of Alzheimer's
For decades, the hunt for an early Alzheimer's warning sign has felt like chasing a ghost. By the time memory lapses become noticeable, the brain has often alre
20 Mar 2026
Stanford Cracks the Code on mRNA Vaccines and Heart Inflammation
For three years, the myocarditis signal sat in the data like a splinter — real, rare, and poorly understood. Young men, mostly teenagers and men in their twen
20 Mar 2026
The WHO Pandemic Agreement Has a Pathogen-Sharing Problem Nobody Wants to Solve
When the World Health Assembly adopted the WHO Pandemic Agreement in May 2025, it was celebrated as a historic breakthrough, the first binding international ins
