Online poll shows Americans can't tell healthy processed foods from unhealthy ones

Scientists have discovered novel drug candidates which could ultimately lead to new effective treatments for conditions caused by tissue stress and inflammation, including neuropathic pain and ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Targeted training interventions for both health professionals and parents significantly increase the amount of skin-to-skin contact between newborns and their parents in the first 48 hours after birth. The proportion of babies who received nearly 24 hours of skin contact over the first 24 hours increased from 33% to 58%. This is shown in a new study published in Acta Paediatrica from Uppsala University.

The first malaria treatment for newborns and young infants has received approval from Swiss health regulators, with eight African countries poised to roll the drug out rapidly, pharmaceutical giant Novartis said Tuesday.

There's a clear downside to the Norwegian policy that encourages allowing elderly people to live at home for as long as possible. Caring for the aging population has been left to worn-out family members.

In a discovery that could reshape approaches to regenerative medicine and bone repair, researchers have found that human stem cells can be prompted to begin turning into bone cells simply by squeezing through narrow spaces.

Almost 1 in 10 workers in their 30s uses alcohol, marijuana or hard drugs like cocaine while on the job in the United States, a new study has found.

For the first time, researchers have discovered and isolated adult stem cells from a non-human primate. This finding could transform the foundation for how we develop stem cell treatments.

Gastrointestinal cancers remain among the most common forms of cancer. While endoscopy has become a cornerstone of cancer screening and diagnosis over the past two decades, the procedure still misses approximately 8% to 11% of tumors, due to visibility limitations. Now, researchers have developed a prototype imaging system that could significantly improve doctors' ability to detect cancerous tissue during endoscopic procedures.

It can take as long as 18 months for children with suspected autism spectrum or attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorders to get a diagnostic appointment with a psychiatrist in Indiana. But an interdisciplinary team led by an Indiana University researcher has developed a new diagnostic approach using artificial intelligence that could speed up and improve the detection of neurodivergent disorders.

Proper nutrition is important for people diagnosed with cancer, both to help them feel better and to assist them in maintaining their strength during treatment and its side effects. But cancer and its treatment can affect both a person's ability and desire to eat, making it hard to get enough calories and nutrients. This is especially true for people who have been diagnosed with some type of head and neck cancer, malignancies that arise predominantly in the mouth, throat and voice box.

About 1%–2% of all inpatient hospitalizations result in the patient being discharged against medical advice (DAMA), leading to more than $800 million in annual associated health care costs. To further understand the impact of DAMA, researchers evaluated trends including risk factors, length of stay, and readmission risk, among others. Their findings are published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

In a bid to better understand how cancer cells power their explosive growth and spread, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have shed new light on the location and function of power-generating waves on the covering, or membrane, of these cells. The scientists say the waves, generated by rhythmic propagation of enzymes that produce energy from glucose, could potentially be used to better stage cancers, and as targets of drugs designed to slow down or halt the spread of cancer.

It's time to see lived experience—knowledge gained by being a patient, caregiver, or relative—as essential expertise, to ensure that health care is relevant, responsive, effective, resilient, equitable, and fully inclusive, say experts in a special collection of articles published by The BMJ today.

The phrase "doctor's orders" does not hold much weight with Generation Z.

Measles cases in the United States have reached their highest level in 25 years, with more than 1,270 confirmed cases this year.

Research by Cancer Council Victoria's Cancer Epidemiology Division published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health has revealed more than 230,000 lives have been saved from the impact of cancer control measures implemented since about the 1960s.

Preliminary results of an observational clinical trial underway at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center are shedding light on why some patients with an aggressive form of metastatic breast cancer fare better than others after receiving standard treatment with cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 inhibitors, a form of targeted therapy that prevents cancer cells from growing and multiplying.

Yale researchers have discovered a process in the primate brain that sheds new light on how visual systems work and could lead to advances in both human neuroscience and artificial intelligence.