Self-esteem surges within one year of weight-loss surgery, study finds

New research reveals how seasonal diseases impact our willingness to follow health measures. People are less likely to follow protective measures when infection levels drop, leading to seasonal surges in disease.

An Aston University optometrist, Professor James Wolffsohn, has determined an optimum blinking exercise routine for people suffering with dry eye disease, and has developed a new app, MyDryEye, to help them complete the routine to ease their symptoms. The research is published in the journal Contact Lens and Anterior Eye.

A Peter Mac-initiated clinical trial suggests a way to dramatically improve outcomes in patients with high-risk forms of large B-cell lymphoma, who otherwise have a 50% chance of cure from conventional therapy.

For the first time, researchers have studied what happens in the brains of people who have migraines when they haven't slept enough: The mechanisms in the brain that should reduce pain don't work as well.

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have found that in rare instances, variants responsible for SYNGAP1-related disorders—a group of disorders characterized by developmental delay and often associated with epilepsy—can be inherited from a parent, which could help influence family planning, genetic variant interpretation, and other aspects of clinical care.

A multidisciplinary team has taken a step forward in the field of precision medicine with the publication of a study that highlights the value of integrating multiple layers of biological information—genomic, metabolomic, and lipoproteomic—to identify individuals with underlying molecular risk despite being apparently healthy and without relevant clinical manifestations.

Synthetic chemicals and plastics are useful and indispensable in our lives. On the other hand, the world is grappling with plastic pollution—clogging oceans, threatening wildlife, and leaching into ecosystems. While eco-friendly alternatives are on the way, researchers have been trying to identify the various effects of the synthetic plastics present within the ecosystem.

An innovative community-based mentoring scheme for pregnant adolescent girls in Sierra Leone has been found to save lives, while also helping girls return to education.

The ancient wandering womb theory suggested that many ailments in women were caused by the uterus becoming dislodged and roaming the body in search of moisture.

As summer temperatures rise, a Houston emergency room doctor is sharing important tips to help folks stay safe while outdoors.

Dozens of HIV experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received emails earlier in June revoking notices they received 10 weeks ago that laid them off. Damage to their projects may be permanent, however, and ongoing restrictions on their research will harm lives, multiple HIV scientists at the CDC told KFF Health News on condition of anonymity because of fears of retaliation.

Boston Children's Hospital scientists have unveiled a five-day approach to generate functional vascular organoids capable of supporting blood flow and in vivo engraftment.

A cancer patient's sense of agency as an active individual is not fixed, according to a study from the University of Eastern Finland. The study, published in Qualitative Health Research, explored how a cancer patient's experience of agency, i.e., their sense of being able to influence their life, changes during diagnosis and treatment, as well as in response to wider societal crises. Conducted as a co-research project, the study followed the long-term experience of a single patient.

A new statement from leading heart and blood vessel experts in Europe is providing clinical guidance for treatments to prevent blood clots in patients with a serious condition called chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), after they have had procedures to restore blood flow in their lower limbs. The statement, and the systematic review it is based on, comes from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Working Group on Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases and Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is as complex as its name is difficult to pronounce. It's sometimes referred to as simply "chronic fatigue," but this is just one of its symptoms.

A team of faculty, students, and staff from the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute published a review of the impact of unhealthy food marketing on adolescents and young adults in the most recent issue of Obesity Reviews.

Treating lower back pain is enormously expensive. In the UK it's estimated to cost the NHS around £3.2 billion a year. So, ensuring patients get the right treatment is critical.

There's a reason casinos rarely have windows or clocks, they're engineered to make you lose track of time. But what if it's not just time you're losing? New research suggests that the lighting used in gambling environments could be quietly altering how we make decisions, making us more prone to take risks.