Polarized light imaging enhances accuracy of deep brain stimulation

Despite widespread public health efforts, the dangerous myth of "prevention of tongue-swallowing" continues to persist during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). New research in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology exposes the mainstream and social media's detrimental role in perpetuating this misconception, which often leads to critical delays in proper CPR for collapsed athletes.

A higher intake of ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to an increased risk of lung cancer, suggests research published online in the journal Thorax.

Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation lessens the severity, frequency, and recurrence of the most common form of irregular heart rhythm, atrial fibrillation, or AF for short, finds a pooled data analysis of the available research, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

UK teens who currently vape are as likely to take up smoking as their peers in the 1970s, despite a substantial fall in the prevalence of teenage smoking over the past 50 years, suggests a long-term intergenerational study published online in the journal Tobacco Control.

If it has seemed like more people you know are developing diabetes, you are right. The diabetes epidemic is not called an epidemic for nothing: According to the American Diabetes Association, over 10% of the U.S. population—approximately 38.4 million people—had diabetes in 2021, and 1.2 million more people get diagnosed each year.

Friends, ex-spouses and neighbors are playing a growing role in caring for older adults with dementia—yet surveys and policies still act as if only spouses and children matter.

A single bout of either resistance or high-intensity interval training could help in the cancer battle, new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has found.

A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South Carolina lake.

A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South Carolina lake.

The idea that herpes infections trigger or contribute to Alzheimer's disease has been gaining favor among some scientists, raising hope that herpes treatments could slow the progression of Alzheimer's symptoms among patients.

A recent study by researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine has found that individuals with cannabis use disorder (CUD) are more than three times more likely to develop oral cancer within five years compared to those without CUD. The study highlights the potential long-term health risks associated with problematic cannabis use.

For women diagnosed with breast cancer at age 40 years or younger, the risk for isolated locoregional recurrence (LRR) is relatively low, according to a study published online July 23 in JAMA Surgery.

An analysis of data from more than 4.7 million Chinese women showed that those who had low blood sugar levels prior to conception were more likely to have certain adverse pregnancy outcomes—such as their baby being born preterm or with low birth weight.

In the last two decades, childhood immunization coverage improved significantly across most African countries. However, at least 12 countries are unlikely to achieve global targets for full immunization by 2030, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine by Phuong The Nguyen of Hitotsubashi University, Japan, and colleagues.

Avian influenza virus from the ongoing outbreak in dairy cattle appears to be keeping its bird-infecting features rather than adapting to better infect other mammals, according to a new study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Since 2024, when scientists first detected H5N1 bird flu in dairy cattle, they have worried that the virus would use the animals as a bridge to mutate and gain the ability to better infect and spread in humans.

Among adolescents with overweight or obesity, prediabetes is more than twice as common in Asian and Pacific Islander (Asian/PI) adolescents than in White youth, according to a study published online June 30 in Diabetes Care.

A new discovery made by researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) could lead to smarter, more effective treatments for Hodgkin lymphoma, a common blood cancer.

Planned Parenthood clinics across the country will continue to receive Medicaid funding, at least for now.