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Lecanemab: Bittersweet moment for Alzheimer’s patients – but hope of treatment is still possible | Science & Tech News
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This is a bittersweet moment for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and their families. Hopes had been high that for the first time they would have access to a treatment that could slow the decline in memory and thinking. When a pivotal clinical trial was released last year doctors hailed lecanemab as a game-changer, one…
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Why beach cleans matter as new research gives scientists hope for polluted oceans | Science & Tech News
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Beach cleans rapidly and dramatically reduce plastic fragments released into the environment, according to the first scientific evidence of its kind. Experts from Norce, one of Norway‘s largest research organisations, found that within a year of volunteers removing bottles, bags and other large pieces of plastic from the shore of an island near Bergen, the…
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Adam Boulton: The glimmers of hope and reasons to be cheerful as 2022 ends | UK News
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2022 has been a tough year, in which the UK has often been hit harder than its peer countries in the G7 – the club of the world’s wealthiest democracies. Russia’s bloody attack on Ukraine led to dramatic spikes in energy costs. A global cost of living crisis has been driven by soaring inflation and…
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Nuclear fusion breakthrough offers hope for future generations – but the reality may be more complicated | Science & Tech News
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This is a historic moment in fusion science. Scientists have been pursuing the dream of producing energy from nuclear fusion for more than 70 years. While fusion – the same reaction that powers the sun – has been achieved many times in many different types of devices around the world, all of them require massive…
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New drug brings hope that decades-long slog to find Alzheimer’s cure might pay off | Science & Tech News
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Science is a slog. Not a series of “Eureka!” moments. It’s why I hate the word “breakthrough” when it comes to research discoveries. But in the case of this new drug for Alzheimer’s that word is more than justified. Not because lecanemab is a cure for the disease that is destroying the lives of hundreds…
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Lecanemab: New Alzheimer’s drug slows decline in memory – fuelling hope doctors will one day cure dementia | Science & Tech News
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Doctors have hailed a “new era” of medicine after a study showed for the first time that a drug can slow the debilitating symptoms of Alzheimer’s. Results from the clinical trial also revealed that the drug lecanemab cleared clumps of a protein called amyloid – thought to be a key cause of the most common…
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Hope for people with untreatable high blood pressure after trial on new drug Baxdrostat | Science & Tech News
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Researchers claim to have found a way to tackle previously untreatable high blood pressure. Scientists from Queen Mary University of London and the US pharmaceutical firm CinCor examined whether patients would benefit from taking a drug called Baxdrostat. Those who took a new medicine during a clinical trial were found to have significantly lower blood…
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Transplant hope for minorities as scientists successfully alter donor kidney blood type | UK News
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Scientists have successfully altered the blood type of three donor kidneys – a breakthrough that could increase the supply of kidneys available for transplant, particularly for ethnic minority groups who are less likely to find a match. A kidney from someone with an A blood type cannot be transplanted to someone with a B blood…