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A Simple Blood Test for Cancer

| November 16, 2015 Comment

A Simple Blood Test for Cancer – Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden, in collaboration with researchers from University of Massachusetts and Netherlands, have come up with a new way to detect cancer from a single drop of blood, which, they hope, would make invasive biopsies unnecessary in the near future. According to Jonas Nilsson, […]

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Depression May Lead to Parkinson’s Disease

| May 24, 2015 Comment

Depression May Lead to Parkinson’s Disease – According to researchers from Umeå University in Sweden, depression may be an early symptom or a risk factor for Parkinson’s disease later in life. Researchers followed the entire population of Sweden who were over the age of 50 by 2005 for two decades. They found that between 1987 […]

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