Gastroesophageal reflux disease linked to increased risk for incident acute myocardial infarction

Identifying the factors that contribute to psychopathology and increase the risk of experiencing specific mental health conditions is a long-standing goal for many psychology researchers. While past studies have highlighted the crucial role of some experiences, particularly challenging events unfolding during childhood and adolescence, in the development of mental health disorders, their influence is often difficult to quantify and differentiate from other factors that could contribute to psychopathology.

Autoimmune neuromuscular diseases may sound complex, but understanding them is the first step to getting the right care and support. Conditions such as Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS), myasthenia gravis (MG), and inclusion body myositis (IBM) affect how muscles and nerves communicate, leading to muscle weakness and fatigue.

Imagine popping by your eye doctor's office for a quick cataract surgery.

Standard MRI scans of a person's tongue could assist in the early detection and ongoing monitoring of motor neuron disease.

Problems with the brain's waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep patterns and cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure increase the risk of dementia.

Alzheimer's disease is notorious for scrambling patients' daily rhythms. Restless nights with little sleep and increased napping during the day are early indicators of disease onset, while sundowning, or confusion later in the day, is typical for later stages of the disease.

A test deployed in many fertility clinics to assess the viability of embryos for use in IVF is likely to overestimate the number of embryos with abnormalities, suggests a study published in Nature Biotechnology.

Scientists at ARUP Laboratories have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that detects intestinal parasites in stool samples more quickly and accurately than traditional methods, potentially transforming how labs diagnose parasitic infections around the world.

An international panel of leading experts on women's mental health is recommending that postpartum psychosis be recognized as a distinct category of mental illness and classified accordingly within standardized medical coding systems.

For patients with early-stage cervical cancer, sentinel lymph node biopsy alone is noninferior to lymphadenectomy with respect to disease-free survival, according to a study published online Oct. 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Teenagers who don't get enough sleep on school nights or have interrupted sleep are at greater risk of suicide, new research from the University of Warwick has found.

Ewing sarcoma is one of the most common bone cancers seen in children, and if it spreads, it can be deadly. One study found that under a quarter of children with multi-metastatic Ewing sarcoma survived five years after their diagnosis.

For a while, the "hot girls have stomach problems" trend on social media has been a way for women to destigmatize irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Anti-obesity medication semaglutide may help to prevent heart attacks and other major cardiac events regardless of how much weight people lose while taking the drug, according to a new study led by a UCL researcher.

Restricted sugar intake during early life is linked to lower risks of several heart conditions in adulthood, including heart attack, heart failure, and stroke, finds a study published by The BMJ using data from the end of UK sugar rationing in 1953.

One in five women with breast or cervical cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are diagnosed at an early stage, compared with more than one in three in high-income countries (HICs), new research suggests. For ovarian cancer, the proportion of women diagnosed with early-stage disease was generally lower than 20% (one in five) worldwide, although the situation remains slightly worse for women in LMICs.

For patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), alterations in gut microbiota are associated with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes, according to a study published online Sept. 29 in The American Journal of Gastroenterology.

A new approach to PET imaging offers a promising way for physicians to promptly identify patients who are at risk for poor functional recovery after a heart attack, according to new research published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.