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Dec 2025
Life-saving Christmas present arrives early at Medway United FC
Bedfont® Scientific Limited, an innovative MedTech company with over 49 years of experience in breath analysis, has proudly donated a defibrillator to Medway United FC.
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16
Dec 2025
Urine-based microRNA clock predicts biological aging without a blood test
Researchers developed and validated a non-invasive urinary microRNA aging clock using extracellular vesicle miRNAs from more than 6,000 adults. The model predicts age with about 4 to 5 years error and links accelerated aging signals to type 2 diabetes.
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Dec 2025
How Traditional Chinese Medicine may reshape the gut microbiome to ease insulin resistance in PCOS
This review synthesizes evidence that gut microbiota dysbiosis contributes to insulin resistance and symptom severity in polycystic ovary syndrome through impaired barrier function, inflammation, and altered microbial metabolites. It evaluates how Traditional Chinese Medicine may modulate these pathways while highlighting major gaps in clinical validation, safety, and standardization.
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Dec 2025
Chronic breathlessness drives longer hospital stays and higher healthcare costs
Chronic breathlessness, a symptom often overlooked by healthcare systems, is associated with longer lengths of hospital stay on already overstretched healthcare resources, says new Flinders University research.
16
Dec 2025
Salutogenic microbes offer new pathways to better health
Viruses and bacteria get a bad rap around the world but now Flinders University experts are identifying the positive 'upside' of powerful benefits that microbes have on human health.
16
Dec 2025
Multiple biological systems show abnormalities in ME/CFS patients
New Australian research has identified simultaneous abnormalities across multiple biological systems in people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).
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Dec 2025
Rapid adoption of AI in primary care raises safety concerns
From digital scribes to ChatGPT, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly entering GP clinics. New University of Sydney research warns that technology is racing ahead of safety checks, putting patients and health systems at risk.
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Dec 2025
Poor housing conditions harm children’s school attendance and grades
Children living in substandard housing in England miss 15 more school days and achieve worse test scores in English and maths than their peers living in better quality housing, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
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Dec 2025
Combined physical frailty and depression may sharply raise dementia risk
Concurrent physical frailty and depression likely boost the risk of dementia in older people, with the interaction of these 2 factors alone contributing around 17% of the overall risk, suggest the findings of a large international study, published in the open access journal General Psychiatry.
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Dec 2025
Specific gut bacterium reduces weight gain and improves metabolic health
The gut microbiome is intimately linked to human health and weight. Differences in the gut microbiome-the bacteria and fungi in the gut-are associated with obesity and weight gain, raising the possibility that changing the microbiome could improve health.
