Guidance recommends new approach to assess cardiovascular risk and reach treatment goals for lipid levels

Young children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder often receive medication just after being diagnosed, which contravenes treatment guidelines endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, a Stanford Medicine-led study has found.

The gut contains the largest collection of immune cells in the body. New research at the Buck Institute shows that some of those immune cells travel along the brain/gut axis in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD), providing a potential new therapeutic pathway for the memory-robbing malady.

Prolonged extreme heat in New Orleans was linked to a measurable increase in domestic violence-related emergency calls, according to new research in JAMA Network Open co-authored by the Tulane University's Newcomb Institute.

UCLA researchers have developed a new kind of immunotherapy that uses specially engineered immune cells equipped with built-in weapons to attack kidney cancer tumors and reprogram their protective environment—all without the need to customize treatment for each individual patient.

Federal health officials have cut back a long-running program that tracks foodborne illnesses in the United States.

Two people have died after eating raw oysters infected with the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus, Louisiana health officials confirmed.

Cancer cells provide healthy neighboring cells with additional mitochondria to put them to work. This has been demonstrated by researchers at ETH Zurich in a new study. In this way, cancer is exploiting a mechanism that frequently serves to repair damaged cells.

Updated ESC/EACTS Guidelines, being released at the ESC Congress 2025, aim to improve the way that patients with valvular heart disease are diagnosed and treated, responding to robust new evidence that suggests some newer and less invasive treatments could be offered more widely and consistently to patients.

Updated ESC Guidelines, published at ESC Congress 2025 and featured in the European Heart Journal, put a focus on a woman's autonomy in making her own reproductive choices by promoting transparent dialogue and shared decision-making for pregnancies that are high-risk of an adverse maternal and/or fetal event.

New ESC Guidelines to improve the diagnosis and care of patients with myocarditis and pericarditis have been published at ESC Congress 2025 and also appear in the European Heart Journal.

A new study reveals that about one in 12 patients who are diagnosed with two or more different types of cancer were born with a mutation in a known cancer risk gene. This discovery could reshape how genetic testing is offered to cancer patients.

Targeting high-normal potassium levels reduced the risk of arrhythmias, hospitalization for heart failure or arrhythmia and death compared with no intervention, according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot Line session today at ESC Congress 2025 and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Maternal stress during pregnancy may be partly to blame for childhood eczema, according to a study on mice published in the journal Nature.

Stroke survivors at increased risk of developing dementia do not have therapies to reduce that risk, but new Monash University-led research could help change that.

The Food and Drug Administration's COVID-19 vaccine approval issued Aug. 27 comes with restrictions on who's eligible to receive the vaccine. Meanwhile, the administration has endorsed seasonal influenza vaccines—but only if they do not include the mercury-based preservative thimerosal.

"Ozempic face." Five years ago, if you'd heard those words you would probably think it referred to an alien species.

Australian GPs are not adequately monitoring for adverse health outcomes in children and adolescents who are prescribed antipsychotic drugs, according to a new study by University of Adelaide researchers.

When we think of child abuse, physical violence or emotional cruelty often comes to mind first. However, the most common form of maltreatment is actually much quieter: neglect.