Mouse diet could be messing with imaging accuracy

A University of Rhode Island-led cohort study links preterm index of cumulative medical risk from birth to year 12 to adult disorders at age 35.

Black men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer have lower odds of overtreatment and confirmatory testing when compared with white men, according to a research letter published online in JAMA Network Open.

Two new studies from the Department of Computational Biomedicine at Cedars-Sinai are advancing what we know about using machine learning and big data to improve health care and medical research. Both studies were published in the peer-reviewed journal Patterns.

President Donald Trump rode to reelection last fall on voter concerns about prices. But as his administration pares back federal rules and programs designed to protect patients from the high cost of health care, Trump risks pushing more Americans into debt, further straining family budgets already stressed by medical bills.

A large new meta-analysis of more than 800,000 participants to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Vienna, Austria (15–19 September), shows that high adherence to three well-established healthy eating patterns is linked to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, regardless of one's ethnicity.

For two decades, Washington, D.C., pediatrician Lanre Falusi has counseled parents about vaccine safety, side effects, and timing. But this year, she said, the conversations have changed.

A few days after a harrowing cosmetic surgery procedure, Erin Schaeffer said, she woke up with fluid leaking from an open wound in her stomach.

New Swinburne research has found that psychological stress may lead to higher blood pressure and therefore increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.

A major international research effort led by UNSW's Center for Healthy Brain Aging (CHeBA) is reshaping our understanding of dementia by addressing a longstanding gap in global health equity.

In low-resource settings, babies born with gastroschisis—a congenital condition in which the developing intestines extend outside the body through a hole in the abdominal wall—face life-threatening challenges.

Nature is often the best model for science. For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to recreate the ability of some mammals and birds to survive extreme environmental conditions for brief or extended periods by going into torpor, when their body temperature and metabolic rate drop, allowing them to preserve energy and heat.

The cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors have a puzzling reputation: even though they are treatment mainstays for multiple forms of cancer, they can damage cancer-killing T cells and disrupt the potential for meaningful therapy. New research from medical scientists in China is revealing ways to sidestep this obstacle by preventing PARP-induced collateral damage to T cells.

31 July 2025, Jerusalem, Cairo: The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip, according to the alert published this week by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).   People are foregoing food for days. Others are dying as their undernourished, weakened bodies succumb to disease or organ failure. The health system, normally a source of sustenance and relief, is also starved of essential medical supplies, fuel, and other necessities to function fully. Humanitarian and health workers are also weak from hunger.   Dying of starvation is slow and painful. A starving child, among the most vulnerable, might cry constantly from pain until becoming too weak to even do that. If not urgently treated, a child with acute malnutrition will die.   To stop the dying and reverse this man-made tragedy will take months, if not years. Recovery for a malnourished person takes specialised medical attention, correct therapeutic feeding and supplementation. In some severe cases, consequences are lifelong, from stunted growth and impaired brain development to other lasting health complications.    While the IPC partners, including WHO, will conduct further assessments, the gravity of the situation is clear.    Food, medicines and other aid must be allowed in immediately, at scale, through all possible routes. United Nations partners have such supplies ready and waiting at the border. WHO calls on Israel to urgently facilitate the United Nations and other humanitarian actors by ensuring safe, rapid and unhindered access to delivery and distribution of aid. As ever, our call is to end Read more...

A new study in the journal Machine Learning: Health discovers that ChatGPT can accelerate patient screening for clinical trials, showing promise in reducing delays and improving trial success rates.

Cambridge scientists have developed and tested a new drug in mice that has the potential to reduce damage to the brain when blood flow is restored following a stroke.

Patient-centricity is often seen as a matter of ethics, something that "should" be done on principle. A white paper demonstrates that patient-centricity is not just an ethical imperative, but strategically essential for digital health solutions to build sustainable businesses while transforming lives.

It was the early 2000s when researchers first showed that exercise can help relieve the tremors that are common with Parkinson's disease. So far, researchers haven't been able to explain how exercise helps. But they may be getting closer to an answer.

The itching, redness and swelling of an allergic reaction are caused by mast cells—the vigilant first responders of the immune system that spring into action with histamine-filled granules in response to a perceived threat.