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The first audit in over ten years into pancreatic cancer in Northern Ireland has revealed there has been an 86% increase in confirmed cases, rising from 152 in 2001 to 283 in 2020 since a previous audit was carried out in 2001.

Conditions such as celiac disease and Parkinson's disease could be detected in principle up to 10 years earlier than they are currently, suggests a new study by UCL researchers.

Handwashing with soap can reduce cases of acute respiratory infection (ARI) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by as much as 17%, according to a review published in The Lancet.

Well, as lauras report shows, chinas influence is growing in south east asia and a new report looking at data over the last five years in the asean region has concluded the same thing. the report has been produced by the lowy institute, an independent think tank based in sydney, it concludes that beijing is more influential in all but two countries that make up the ten nations in the asean block and its chinas economic relationships with the region that are growing the most. earlier i heard from...

According to a recent University of Alberta research, preserving tree diversity in Canada’s various forests over time can assist enhance carbon capture and prevent climate change.

It concludes that beijing is more influential in all ten countries in the bloc but especially so in two of them in its economic relationships. lets get more from the lead author of the report susannah patton, director, southeast asia programme at the lowy institute. she joins us from sydney. great to get you on the programme. in the first instance, how did you measure the influence of china and the us in the asean countries? we look at four different measures of influence including economic rela...

I heard from the lead author of the report susannah patton, director, southeast asia programme at the lowy institute. we look at four different measures of influence including economic relationships which is the most important. defence networks, so the deployments, combined exercises, defence dialogues between countries in the region. we look at diplomatic influence, so the size of the diplomatic networks, the extent of diplomatic contact between the foreign ministers and leaders of the countrie...

New research indicates that for patients with advanced skin cancer, it may be important to maintain normal vitamin D levels when receiving immunotherapy medications called immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Jacqueline howard, thank you and concerning new study out this week, shows one in four teenagers at some middle and high schools in the u. s say they have misused prescription stimulants to treat 80 hd. this misuse could include anything from getting high to using the drugs to stay up late to finish school work. joining us now is the lead author of this new study professor sean esteban mckay, but hes also the director of the center for the study of drugs, alcohol, smoking and health at the unive...

In switzerland in the summer >> what are we going to do about it >> what we have to do is stop burning fossil fuels thats the most basic thing. we cant reverse the trend scientists say, but we can slow and stop this trend. and i talked to a scientist, john kennedy today whos the lead author of this report, and he said every tenth of a degree is worth fighting for. if the global temperature keeps going up, it doesnt sound like a whole lot, but that means more deadly heat waves, more floods, more ...