O que acreditar em Deus faz ao cérebro

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/what-believing-in-god-does-to-your-brain-a6950956.html
Citando:
"From what we know about the brain, the leap of faith to belief in the supernatural amounts to pushing aside the critical/analytical way of thinking to help us achieve greater social and emotional insight."


Estudo:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149989

Retorno da escarlatina intriga

Infecção bacteriológica de volta ao RU:
http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/saude/doenca-comum-no-seculo-passado-escarlatina-volta-a-desafiar-medicos

Less sugar and red meat on menu in new healthy eating guide (From Craven Herald)

Less sugar and red meat on menu in new healthy eating guide (From Craven Herald)

Citando:

A new healthy eating guide lessens the role of cake, biscuits and sweets in people's diets and provides a new warning to eat less red and processed meat.

The new Eatwell Guide unveiled by Public Health England (PHE) is designed to replace the healthy eating "plate" with new, updated guidance on eating more fruit, vegetables and starchy carbohydrates and cutting down on high-fat foods and sugar.

Os números do cancro - Portal

Excelente recurso (EN):
http://canceratlas.cancer.org/the-burden/

Revolutionary Nanoparticle Generator Battles Breast Cancer

Revolutionary Nanoparticle Generator Battles Breast Cancer

Citando:

“This may sound like science fiction, like we’ve penetrated and destroyed the Death Star, but what we discovered is transformational. We invented a method that actually makes the nanoparticles inside the cancer and releases the drug particles at the site of the cellular nucleus. With this injectable nanoparticle generator, we were able to do what standard chemotherapy drugs, vaccines, radiation, and other nanoparticles have all failed to do,” says Ferrari.

Houston Methodist has developed good manufacturing practices (GMP) for this drug and plans to fast-track the research to obtain FDA-approval and begin safety and efficacy studies in humans in 2017.

Atlas do Cancro faz mapeamento da doença em todo o mundo - PDF

Atlas do Câncer faz mapeamento da doença em todo o mundo.

O PDF pode ser obtido aqui.
English version here.

Reavivar memórias - Alzheimer

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/12195982/Memories-wiped-by-Alzheimers-could-be-revived-research-suggests.html

Esquizofrenia e ADN

Scientists find gene fault that raises schizophrenia risk 35-fold:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3491780/Scientists-gene-fault-raises-schizophrenia-risk-35-fold.html

Cholesterol pill boosts cancer immunotherapy

Em ratos:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3495612/Cholesterol-pill-boosts-cancer-immunotherapy-mice.html

Testes clínicos da Bial - investigação

Alguns resultados começam a aparecer na comunicação social:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3494253/Experts-urge-cautious-dosing-fatal-French-drug-trial.html

Sono e problemas cardiovasculares

http://ptjornal.com/mau-sono-doencas-cardiovasculares-risco-72271
PS. Adolescentes: 9 a 10h/d

Manteiga de amendoim contraria a obesidade?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3475742/Could-PEANUT-BUTTER-key-fighting-obesity-Snacking-peanuts-3-4-times-week-helps-lower-BMI.html

Aspirina na prevenção de certos cancros

http://ptjornal.com/aspirina-reduz-tipos-cancro-estudo-70872
Sumário:
Estudo EUA:
Pequenas doses de Aspirina reduzem o risco de cancro colorectal / tracto gastro-intestinal (assim como doenças do coração). Nao se detectaram efeitos noutros cancros comuns como o da mama e próstata.

A confiança e o cérebro

http://www.publico.pt/ciencia/noticia/e-se-a-confianca-estiver-mesmo-atras-dos-nossos-olhos-1725116

6 cafés por dia e a EM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3475847/Six-coffees-day-cut-risk-MS-Drinking-900ml-day-reduce-chance-30.html

Relicenciar os glifosatos na UE (pesticidas - cancro)

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/04/eu-states-rebel-against-plans-to-relicense-weedkiller-glyphosate

Aumento de risco de cancros secundários (próstata)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12181321/Radiotherapy-for-prostate-cancer-raises-risk-of-new-tumours.html


Citando:
The analysis suggests that the risk of developing bowel cancer within 10 years of radiotherapy rose by 68 per cent, while the odds of rectal cancer increased by 62 per cent and bladder cancer by 39 per cent. (...)
Patients should be informed that radiotherapy raises the risk of secondary cancer, say health experts.

Cancro do Pâncreas - 4 subtipos identificados

http://www.tvi24.iol.pt/tecnologia/estudo/cancro-do-pancreas-nova-descoberta-podera-levar-a-novos-tratamentos


Citando:
subtipo da doença: escamoso, progenitor pancreático, imunogénico ou ADEX

Extracto de ouriço e estrela do mar? - Rússia

http://expresso.sapo.pt/internacional/2016-03-01-Russos-criaram-chocolate-que-prolonga-a-vida
http://www.tvi24.iol.pt/tecnologia/russia/novo-chocolate-prolonga-o-numero-de-anos-de-vida - 15€ / meio quilo (mais portes da Rússia); correcção de processos metabólicos.

Números de mortes por álcool no RU

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3471405/Drinkers-warned-deaths-alcohol-linked-diseases-rise.html

Níveis de ruído e sono em Portugal

http://lifestyle.publico.pt/noticias/358591_doze-em-cada-100-portugueses-expostos-a-niveis-de-ruido-que-afectam-o-sono

Cancro, stress e propagação via sistema linfático - Estudo

Auto-estradas de propagação via sistema linfático:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stress-can-cause-transport-highways-to-develop-in-cancer-patients-that-allow-tumour-cells-to-spread-a6905681.html


Citando:
"The study, published in Nature Communications, used special microscopes to follow the movement of cells tagged with fluorescent markers to show how tumour cells move through the lymphatic system. They found that stress increased the number and the size of lymphatic vessels that can transport cancer cells."

Privação de sono e alterações no apetite - Estudo

Privação de sono e alterações (negativas) no apetite (com link para o estudo):
http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/9353502