Flexible implant detects pain levels and delivers targeted electrical stimulation wirelessly

By 2030, non-communicable diseases will account for 75% of all deaths annually. Eight percent of these will be in the global south. Most of these diseases are what we call silent killers: type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, as well as certain types of cancer at increasingly younger ages.

Prior COVID-19 vaccination did not stop the immune system from mounting a protective response to the delta and omicron strains, though new mutation-specific antibody production dipped slightly, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences and published in Nature Immunology.

Texas this year has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated disease has sickened more than 700 in the state, sent dozens to hospitals and led to the death of two children who were unvaccinated.

Some 10 million people in the U.S. have oral premalignant disease, a group of diseases that show up as red patches, white patches or rough patches in the mouth and that might—or might not—develop into cancer.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound effect on the world, resulting in a dramatic loss of human lives. While the situation is now largely under control, there are patients who still suffer from the disease and have symptoms lasting for more than three months. The set of these symptoms has been linked to a condition called "long COVID," which persists after an initial period of COVID-19 infection. While the condition is still under study, researchers in Japan have made a significant discovery in the fight against long COVID.

Women age differently from men when it comes to health—particularly in conditions like cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia and Parkinson's.

In a world first, Canadian scientists at the CRCHUM, the hospital research center affiliated with Université de Montréal, have identified microRNA able to protect small blood vessels and support kidney function after severe injury.

A new study suggests that boys who become overweight in their early teens risk damaging the genes of their future children, increasing their chances of developing asthma, obesity and low lung function.

A research team at the University of Würzburg has gained new insights into the development of kidney tumors in young children. These enable a better risk assessment and could form the basis for targeted screening and improved early detection.

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Researchers have found that central body fat, especially around the abdomen, is more strongly linked to psoriasis risk than total body fat, particularly in women. This link between central fat and psoriasis remained consistent regardless of genetic predisposition, indicating that abdominal fat is an independent risk factor.

Scientists have found that global warming in the Middle East and North Africa is making breast, ovarian, uterine, and cervical cancers more common and more deadly. The rise in rates is small but statistically significant, suggesting a notable increase in cancer risk and fatalities over time.

In February 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Panel for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Adults and Adolescents with HIV (ARV Guidelines Panel), in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), and the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), developed statin therapy recommendations for people with HIV (PWH).

A research team at the University of Barcelona's Institute of Neurosciences (UBneuro) has discovered new molecular mechanisms related to the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease, the most common dementia. This study, carried out on animal models with the disease, describes for the first time the decisive role of the RTP801 protein in cells known as astrocytes during the progression of this neurodegenerative disease.

Hot flashes, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, mood swings, urinary incontinence and joint pain: these are just some of the more than 100 symptoms associated with the menopause, a natural process that all women go through when they stop ovulating and menstruating, typically between the ages of 45 and 55.

In its standard definition, the word "rare" describes something that doesn't happen very often.

There are differences of opinion in how to assess "seriousness" in genetic conditions. "In Japan, the seriousness of genetic disorders has traditionally been assessed using narrow medical criteria, limiting access to preimplantation genetic testing for monogenic diseases to only a small number of conditions.