, 2025-05-18 10:09:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study published in Science Advances reveals that a single gene plays a big role in how the liver stores energy, a process that’s critical for overall health and for managing diseases like type 2 diabetes. Led by Penn Nursing’s Kate Townsend Creasy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of…
, 2025-05-18 10:12:00 Credit: Kelvin Valerio from Pexels If you’re anxious about work, finances, the state of the world, or anything else, you might try a moment of mindfulness. Paying close attention to the present moment without judgment—the basic idea behind all mindfulness techniques—can help calm anxiety and improve focus, said Resh Gupta, a postdoctoral…
, 2025-05-18 09:20:00 Credit: Kristin Vogt from Pexels Rising temperatures may increase the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a large new study presented at the ATS 2025 International Conference. The study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, also found that, under the most likely climate change scenarios,…
, 2025-05-18 07:20:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If you have cancer, you expect to see an oncologist, but if you have heart failure you may or may not see a cardiologist. According to research published in the European Heart Journal, only around three out of five heart failure patients see a cardiologist at least once…
Helen Branswell , 2025-05-18 00:12:00 Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on Signal at hbranswell.01. The Food and Drug Administration has finally approved Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine, but in doing so has placed restrictions on it…
, 2025-05-16 15:41:00 Credit: Cell Reports Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2025.102139 A new study from Indiana University scientists may aid the pharmaceutical industry in better understanding a popular over-the-counter pain reliever: Tylenol. Michaela Dvorakova, a postdoctoral researcher at IU’s Gill Institute for Neuroscience and the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,…
, 2025-05-16 15:42:00 a) Study design. b) Viral load quantification across the three pCoV groups. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59411-z Infants hospitalized with severe COVID-19 have significantly different immune responses than adults or older children. The finding comes from scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Weill Cornell…
, 2025-05-16 15:47:00 A smart system for integrated post-stroke monitoring developed by Lithuanian scientists. Credit: Kaunas University of Technology Stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term disability worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 15 million people suffer a stroke each year. Of these, 5 million die and another 5 million are…
, 2025-05-16 15:50:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Stillbirth rates are known to be higher for Black and Asian women than for white women, and those living in the most deprived areas are more at risk than those in the least deprived areas. Now a new University of Bristol-led study published in BJOG: An International Journal…
, 2025-05-16 15:57:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Manne Godhe, Ph.D. student at the Sports Medicine research group, the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, will defend his thesis “Physical activity and fitness measures in healthy older adults and hip osteoarthritis patients” on May 23, 2025. The main supervisor is Eva Andersson. What’s the main focus…
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, 2025-05-16 15:57:00 Advances in medical technology have led to significant health improvements in people with diabetes, but workforce participation has not improved for this population. Credit: JAMA Health Forum (2025). DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.0756 Advances in medical technology over the last 30 years have made it easier to detect and treat diabetes, leading to significant health…
, 2025-05-16 15:57:00 Multiresponse Mendelian randomization (MR2) estimates the causal associations of modifiable factors and coexisting disorders with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Credit: eGastroenterology (2025). DOI: 10.1136/egastro-2024-100126 Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a prevalent and debilitating gastrointestinal disorder affecting approximately 5%–10% of the global population. Characterized by abdominal pain, bloating, and altered bowel habits, IBS…
, 2025-05-16 16:10:00 Credit: Bart van Overbeeke What if we could monitor patients in the future without taking blood samples every time? TU/e researcher Sophie Adelaars investigated a promising alternative: measuring biomarkers in sweat and saliva. In May 2025, she defended her thesis at the Department of Electrical Engineering. Adelaars conducted her research in collaboration…
, 2025-05-16 16:14:00 Impact of denosumab on stromal tumor infiltrating lymphocytes. Credit: Breast Cancer Research (2025). DOI: 10.1186/s13058-025-01996-w Science and society collaboration is essential for scientific progress, especially in the health and biomedical fields where basic researchers, clinicians and patients are involved, as shown by the initial results of D-BIOMARK. This clinical trial against breast…
, 2025-05-16 16:25:00 Schematic overview of the study design. A) Measurements and sensor placement. B) Data preprocessing. C) Validation, machine learning, and evaluation. Credit: Computers in Biology and Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.110180 In a pioneering study from the Expertise Center for Movement Disorders in Groningen, machine learning, a core area of artificial intelligence (AI), was…
, 2025-05-17 18:19:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Ancestry and lifestyle choices of parents may affect the rate and type of new genetic changes that arise in their children, new research has found. Published in Nature Communications, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Cambridge and their collaborators analyzed whole-genome sequence data from 10,000…
Michael Singer, MD; Anthony DeFino , 2025-05-16 14:00:00 Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “ data-action=”subscribe”> Subscribe We were unable to process your request. Please…
, 2025-05-17 18:20:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People with cancer, heart disease and other conditions have come to expect treatments that their medical teams “personalize” just for them, based on tests. But care for mental health conditions hasn’t gotten to that point yet. Now, a new study suggests that it might be possible to personalize…
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, 2025-05-17 18:21:00 A woman looks at her phone while watching the sun set in Kansas City, Mo., on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File Feel like you can’t focus? Like you’ll never finish a book again? Like the only way to keep your mind and hands busy is to scroll on…
, 2025-05-16 10:57:00 Nearly 90% of 200 products contained allergens that could cause allergic contact dermatitis. Medscape Medical News Source link
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, 2025-05-16 16:27:00 Credit: Victor Freitas from Pexels A new study published in Zygote reveals that common over-the-counter supplements popular with male bodybuilders and athletes may impact their fertility. This study comes amid a global decline in male fertility. In this study, branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) clearly impacted the reproductive function of male mice, causing…
, 2025-05-16 11:01:00 Interest in kratom in the United States has soared in the past decade, with estimates ranging as high as 16 million users and more than $2 billion in retail sales. The recent surge in use and increasing availability of products containing the potent kratom metabolite 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) has some experts sounding the…
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, 2025-05-17 16:30:00 Schematic diagram showing possible circuit mechanism for light-exercise-induced dorsal hippocampal activation. Credit: The FASEB Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1096/fj.202400418RRR Researchers at the University of Tsukuba investigated whether monoamine neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, are involved in hippocampal activation even during light exercise. Dopamine secreted from the ventral tegmental area of the brainstem and noradrenaline…
, 2025-05-16 11:26:00 SAN DIEGO — Patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) are at a significantly higher risk for nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC), although the overall risk remains low, a new retrospective database study found. Compared with patients without AD, the odds of NMSC in patients with AD were 1.53 times higher in an adjusted analysis…
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, 2025-05-16 16:28:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Findings from a recent study suggest iron deficiency anemia (IDA) independently and significantly increases the odds of ischemic stroke in young adults. The research is published in the journal eJHaem. IDA is the most common form of anemia globally. It results from iron deficiency, when there are insufficient…
, 2025-05-16 11:49:00 MANCHESTER, England — The risks for infection are broadly similar regardless of the biologic or targeted synthetic disease-modifying drug used to treat inflammatory arthritis, but different patterns of infection do exist across these advanced therapies, delegates were told at the recent British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) 2025 Annual Meeting. “There are so…
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Chris Serres and Kay Lazar — Boston Globe , 2025-05-17 15:22:00 In yet another escalation of its fight against higher education, the Trump administration has moved to terminate hundreds of research grants at Harvard University and its medical school, imperiling dozens of research projects and potentially upending the futures of young scientists. Harvard researchers studying cancer, infectious…
, 2025-05-17 11:18:00 A sign is seen outside of Seminole Hospital District offering measles testing, Feb. 21, 2025, in Seminole, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez), File) Texas’ measles outbreak shows signs of slowing, with fewer than 10 newly reported cases in the last week, but experts say it’s not fully over. “This outbreak does appear to…
, 2025-05-17 01:15:00 A new study co-led by Mass General Brigham researchers points to a promising new type of auditory brainstem implant (ABI) that could benefit people who are deaf due to Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) and other severe inner ear abnormalities that prevent them from receiving cochlear implants. With further tests and trials, researchers…
, 2025-05-17 14:20:00 ORLANDO, Florida — Sotagliflozin (Inpefa) reduces A1c and body weight in people with type 2 diabetes, although the degree of improvement was attenuated in those with moderate-to-severe chronic kidney disease (CKD). “These findings highlight the importance of considering the effect of kidney function to help inform and tailor treatment decision-making for patients…
Harold I. Salmons, MD; Charles P. Hannon, MD, MBA , 2025-05-16 14:40:00 Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “ data-action=”subscribe”> Subscribe We were unable to…
, 2025-05-17 12:30:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An artificial intelligence-enabled electrocardiogram-based algorithm performed well in the early detection of heart failure among health-care-seeking individuals in Kenya, according to late-breaking research presented Heart Failure 2025. Heart failure is highly prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa, where patients are often younger and face worse outcomes than in high-income countries….
, 2025-05-17 01:19:00 Intakes of dietary fiber, high-quality and total carbohydrates in midlife were favorably linked to healthy aging and other positive health outcomes in older women, according to a new study by researchers from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University and Harvard T.H. Chan School of…
, 2025-05-16 12:00:00 TOPLINE: MRI at 7 tesla (T) and 3 T field strengths showed similar accuracy in detecting triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) and scapholunate ligament (SLL) injuries, according to a new study. Although some injuries were missed, MRI identified additional pathologies not seen on arthroscopy, supporting its complementary role in diagnosis. METHODOLOGY: This prospective…
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Jonathan Wosen , 2025-05-16 08:30:00 SAN FRANCISCO — Leading oncologists said this week that artificial intelligence will one day be as integrated into cancer care as it is in smartphones and self-driving cars — and that this is a change we should welcome. Their comments, made at STAT’s Breakthrough Summit West on Wednesday, reflected an…
, 2025-05-17 12:30:00 Immunofluorescent staining for macrophages (CD68, green) and nuclei (DAPI, blue) on the hydrogel-tissue interface seven days after artery incisions in rats. Credit: Dr. Mahsa Ghovvati University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, San Diego researchers developed an injectable sealant for rapid hemostasis and tissue adhesion in soft, elastic organs. Formulated…
, 2025-05-17 01:25:00 For the first time, researchers from King’s College London, Imperial College London and The Alan Turing Institute, have created over 3,800 anatomically accurate digital hearts to investigate how age, sex and lifestyle factors influence heart disease and electrical function. Creating cardiac ‘digital twins’ at this scale has helped scientists discover that age…
, 2025-05-16 12:00:00 TOPLINE: Undergoing cholecystectomy at a younger age (< 40 years) was associated with higher long-term mortality, potentially influenced by higher alcohol use and smoking. METHODOLOGY: This nationwide Swedish cohort study examined the long-term mortality outcomes after cholecystectomy in 159,946 adults (62.2% men) aged 20-79 years who underwent the procedure between 1969 and…
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Mario Aguilar , 2025-05-16 08:30:00 Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech’s promise. He’s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT…
, 2025-05-17 11:20:00 Credit: Karolina Grabowska from Pexels The United States on Friday approved the first blood test for Alzheimer’s, a move that could help patients begin treatment earlier with newly approved drugs that slow the progression of the devastating neurological disease. The test, developed by Fujirebio Diagnostics, measures the ratio of two proteins in…
, 2025-05-17 01:48:00 While Alzheimer’s disease is mostly considered a disorder of the brain, emerging evidence suggests that the condition also affects other organs of the body. Working with the laboratory fruit fly, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital (Duncan NRI) and collaborating…
, 2025-05-16 12:00:00 TOPLINE: A large UK cohort study found that the prevalence of women experiencing moderate to severe mental illness in the second postpartum year increased from 3.1% to 7.4% between 1995 and 2018, supporting extended perinatal mental health (PMH) services. METHODOLOGY: This retrospective cohort study analysed data of 2,132,754 pregnancies from 1,361,497 women…