Survival highest when colorectal cancer is diagnosed before other cancers, study finds

Camryn was diagnosed with a low-grade glioma at age two after her parents noticed a lazy eye. Sixteen years, 11 brain surgeries and over six years of chemotherapy treatment, Camryn is now transitioning from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) into adult care.

Whether you have a rebellious personality or not, most people imagine they are better at overcoming pressure to violate their own principles than they really are, finds a new study.

Virtual escape rooms focusing on anatomy education concepts provide medical students with a fun, creative and challenging way to engage with classroom material, improve their critical thinking, and identify gaps in knowledge. The case study is published in Advances in Physiology Education and has been chosen as an APSselect article for June.

Even before he trained as an otolaryngologist, researcher Anthony Law understood that all of us are natural voice scientists with the intuitive power to hear people's voices and know something's wrong. "When I got COVID in 2021," he says, "within the first five seconds of our telephone conversation my mom knew something was wrong. She could hear it in my voice."

With the weather finally warming up and tempting people to get outside, a dermatologist is sharing a reminder to protect our skin from serious damage when we spend time in the sun.

Children on the autism spectrum, often at odds with their own emotions, may find help in an unlikely place: their own inner voice. A team from the University of Pittsburgh and collaborators tested a novel intervention designed to train autistic children in developing internal speech—and the results suggest it may reduce emotional dysregulation.

Type 2 diabetes patients taking semaglutide, often sold as Ozempic or Wegovy, have a slightly lower risk of stroke compared to patients taking another diabetes drug—empagliflozin. International researchers studied data from 7,899 patients treated with semaglutide and 7,899 treated with empagliflozin to look for differences in the risk of death, heart attack, stroke, heart failure and an irregular heartbeat.

From tiny tree frogs to towering redwoods—to you and me—DNA drives all life on Earth. Embedded in every cell in every organism, DNA acts as a kind of biological instruction manual, containing all the genetic information needed to make life.

The applications of virtual reality far exceed the gaming world as Griffith University researchers investigate its benefits for pediatric burns pain management at the Queensland Children's Hospital.

Suicide remains one of the most pressing public health crises affecting young adults today, with devastating consequences. According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is currently the third leading cause of death among individuals aged 18 to 25, with a 51% increase in suicide deaths between 2000 and 2021.

A brain imaging technology called tau-PET can improve Alzheimer's diagnostics in health care, according to a study from the University of Gothenburg. The technology enables earlier diagnosis and robustly identifies people at highest risk—even before symptoms appear.

While testing of colorectal cancer tumors for mismatch repair (MMR) defects has been recommended for years, the majority of patients with abnormal results do not complete the next steps, including genetic testing. Skipping those steps can cause missed cancer diagnoses and unnecessary costs, as explained in a Yale study recently published in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

COVID-19 appears to be on the rise in some parts of California as a new, highly contagious subvariant—featuring "razor blade throat" symptoms overseas—is becoming increasingly dominant.

Doomscrolling. Instagram obsessions. Mindless YouTube video viewing.

From 2016 to 2023, there was an increase in the mean age of mothers at first birth and at higher-order births, according to the June 13 National Vital Statistics Reports.

Allison Harvey knew she'd have to study hard when she enrolled in an 11-week course on parenting techniques earlier this year. A UC Berkeley professor of psychology who researches memory, habits and sleep, Harvey printed her notes and meticulously completed each week's homework. She engaged with the instructors, who were also well-respected clinical psychologists. And she was far more engaged than her classmates, including her husband.

In the late 1980s, researchers identified a rare genetic mutation that leads to Alzheimer's disease, and yet drugs developed in response haven't slowed Alzheimer's progression nearly to the degree researchers had hoped. In the 1990s, scientists dreamed of biological tests—such as brain scans or blood tests—to diagnose psychiatric conditions like depression, and yet diagnoses are still based on symptoms alone.

Rat lungworm disease is on the rise in eastern Australia in dogs—and there have even been recorded cases in humans, including two known lethal incidents. Caused by a parasite naturally found in rats, the disease requires ongoing monitoring to ensure it is controlled and doesn't pose a public health threat.