Singapore Health News API

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            "title": "Acting CDC director Bhattacharya urges measles vaccines",
            "description": "The HIll Jay Bhattacharya, the recently appointed acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on Monday urged families to consider vaccinating against measles as o…",
            "content": "The HIll Jay Bhattacharya, the recently appointed acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on Monday urged families to consider vaccinating against measles as outbreaks across the country continue.\nIn a video statement... [793 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2026/03/04/acting-cdc-director-bhattacharya-urges-measles-vaccines/",
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            "description": "Humans and animals can sense the negative states of other individuals and respond with prosocial behaviour to improve their conditions1,2. Although prosocial behaviour is hypothesized to have an evolutionary root in caring for vulnerable newborn offspring1,3, whether the neural substrates underlying parenting may contribute to adult-directed prosocial behaviours remains largely unclear. We show that mice with higher levels of parenting exhibit more prosocial allogrooming toward stressed adults. The medial preoptic area (MPOA), a brain area involved in parenting behaviour, bidirectionally regulates allogrooming toward stressed conspecifics. Allogrooming and parenting behaviours recruit a partially overlapping neuronal ensemble in the MPOA, are both controlled by an MPOA–to–VTA pathway and are associated with dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens. Using activity-dependent labeling, we demonstrate that MPOA neuronal ensembles engaged during parenting behaviours are functionally required for allogrooming. Conversely, MPOA neurons activated during prosocial behaviour are functionally required for pup grooming. Collectively, these findings uncover a neural circuit mechanism of prosocial behaviour and reveal partially shared neural substrates between parenting and prosocial behaviours, suggesting that the neural systems evolved for offspring care may have provided a scaffold for the emergence of broader prosocial support between adults.",
            "content": "Humans and animals can sense the negative states of other individuals and respond with prosocial behaviour to improve their conditions1,2. Although prosocial behaviour is hypothesized to have an evolutionary root in caring for vulnerable newborn offs... [1207 chars]",
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            "title": "Parkinson’s Marker Linked to 20-Fold Faster Alzheimer’s Progression in Women",
            "description": "Misfolded aggregates of alpha-synuclein are associated with a much faster accumulation of tau proteins in women with Alzheimer’s disease.",
            "content": "Mayo Clinic researchers have found that misfolded aggregates of alpha-synuclein—a protein linked to Parkinson’s disease—are associated with a much faster accumulation of tau proteins in women with Alzheimer’s disease. In fact, these women accumulated... [3438 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/precision-medicine/parkinsons-marker-linked-to-20-fold-faster-alzheimers-progression-in-women/",
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