Extreme heat increases infant mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa, research finds

Cerebrovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis and stroke remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A common feature of these diseases is vascular stenosis, i.e., the narrowing of blood vessels, which disrupts normal blood flow and contributes to chronic inflammation in the vessel wall. Endothelial cells lining the vasculature play a key role in sensing shear stress from blood flow and responding to disturbed hemodynamics by expressing pro-inflammatory molecules. However, studying this phenomenon in vivo is challenging due to the complexity and variability of living systems.

A hybrid reading strategy for screening mammography, developed by Dutch researchers and deployed retrospectively to more than 40,000 exams, reduced radiologist workload by 38% without changing recall or cancer detection rates.

Art Sullivan, a 38-year-old Ironman athlete, and Josh Lehman, 48, who works at the University of Rochester, are connected by an unlikely foe: a type of brain tumor called an astrocytoma that tends to afflict younger adults. They are also benefiting from the first new treatment for this cancer in decades—and it's changing their lives.

After experiencing catastrophic storms from near and far, anxiety might creep up when you hear about the next weather event. A Baylor College of Medicine psychiatrist offers tips to maintain distress ahead of upcoming storms.

Artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT could potentially be used to motivate people to make healthier choices, but currently veer away from best practice, new Flinders University research has found.

Adolescents and young adults say they want to learn about HIV prevention the same way they learn about new tunes, life hacks, and the latest slang—on social media, according to a new study led by physician-scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Boston Children's Hospital.

Americans' taste for booze could be slipping, with the percentage of those who say they consume alcohol hitting an 86-year low, according to a recent Gallup poll.

New research from Monash University's SPHERE Center of Research Excellence has found strong interest among Australian midwives for delivering contraceptive care during postnatal home visits.

The first global systematic review and meta-analysis of hepatitis B care has found critical patient losses at every step of care, calling for decentralized, integrated models to improve diagnosis, treatment, and patient retention.

West Nile virus (WNV) has been the dominant cause of mosquito-borne illness in the United States since its introduction into North America in 1999. There are no vaccines nor medications to prevent or treat illness in people, so surveillance, prevention, and control remain the best options to protect the public.

UC Berkeley scientists tricked the eye into seeing "the greenest green" they'd ever seen. They say it could transform how we understand and treat eye diseases, and expand the way we see the world around us.

A multi-institution team across Canada and the West Indies reports that gaze patterns can serve as a sensitive marker of cognitive decline, with associated reductions in explorative, adaptive, and differentiated visual sampling of the environment.

University of Warwick researchers have built a new diamond-based magnetic field sensor that could be used to better find tumors through tracing magnetic fluid injected into the body.

It's often mistaken for a heart attack, but Takotsubo cardiomyopathy—previously known as Broken Heart syndrome—is a serious and sometimes fatal heart condition increasingly reported in intensive care units (ICUs). Yet without a clear clinical pathway in ICUs, it's often missed, putting critically ill patients at risk.

When you visit a doctor, you expect them to listen. But in today's fast-paced health care system, real listening—the kind that makes you feel seen, heard and understood—can be the first thing to go.

Despite an outbreak of measles in 2024 in a Weston elementary school, Broward County saw a dramatic drop in its immunization rate for kindergartners in 2025.

Differences across blood pressure (BP) measurement methods show clinically important variance in readings, according to a review published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

A new study by Associate Professor Dennis Egger (Department of Economics and Center for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford) and researchers at the University of California, Berkeley reveals that giving unconditional cash transfers to pregnant women in rural Kenya significantly reduces infant and child mortality.