Centers for disease control and prevention articles
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Japan to launch new disease control body in April 2025 for pandemics
Japan will establish a new organization to advise the government on major outbreaks of infectious diseases from April next year, the country's health minister said Tuesday, in response to criticisms over the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. At a ministry meeting, Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Keizo Takemi expressed hopes
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New study finds potential targets at chromosome ends for degenerative disease prevention
We depend on our cells being able to divide and multiply, whether it's to replace sunburnt skin or replenish our blood supply and recover from injury. Chromosomes, which carry all of our genetic instructions, must be copied in a complete way during cell division. Telomeres, which cap the ends of chromosomes, play a critical role in this cell-renewal process—with a direct bearing on health and disease.
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Protect your brain’s ‘weak spots’ to fight dementia – 12 steps to prevent brain-eating disease
LOSING your mind to dementia is one of the biggest worries we all share. In fact, more than half of Sun readers (52 per cent) fear the debilitating disease. But last month, scientists pinpointed th