Tobacco smoking in childhood associated with premature cardiac damage, heart failure and sudden death

A new clinical trial led by University of Alberta researchers is exploring whether heavy strength training is a safe and beneficial way to help combat the long-term physical challenges faced by head and neck cancer survivors.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it will fast-track review of nine experimental drugs.

As more people turn to ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) for mental health advice, a new study details how these chatbots—even when prompted to use evidence-based psychotherapy techniques—systematically violate ethical standards of practice established by organizations like the American Psychological Association.

In pregnant women with sickle cell disease, the risk of developing early-onset preeclampsia can be determined by measuring levels of a protein associated with placental function and development.

People who use both cannabis and tobacco show distinct brain changes compared to those who use cannabis alone, according to a new study led by McGill University researchers at the Douglas Research Center.

Growing up has never been easy. Being a teenager can feel like a roller coaster. One minute life is fun, and the next it feels like everything is falling apart. Teens face pressure to wear the right clothes, make the right friends and get good grades—all while their bodies and minds are changing. Mood swings, eye rolls and even slammed doors may be part of the territory, but how can adults know when those behaviors are typical and when they might signal something more serious?

A research team led by Professor Uichin Lee from the School of Computing has demonstrated the possibility of accurately tracking an individual's mental health status using in-home Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data. The study is published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.

As the U.S. pulls the funding rug out from under African countries fighting infectious diseases, it is more necessary than ever for Africa to make its own medicine.

A recent review published in Pediatric Physical Therapy has highlighted deficiencies in the scientific support and theoretical foundations of two neurorehabilitation methods for children with neurological disabilities—Cuevas Medek Exercises and Dynamic Movement Intervention.

The periodization of exercise training could give people undergoing cancer treatment and those in recovery a tailored pathway to support strength and resilience during the challenging journey of cancer care and rehabilitation.

Online grocery shopping rocketed in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, when social distancing recommendations made getting groceries delivered an attractive alternative to going to the store.

Megan Pritchard, a third-year nursing student at Aston University, has written a paper outlining the health inequalities faced by people with learning difficulties and suggesting achievable ways to mitigate the problems.

October 24 marks World Polio Day. The vaccination against poliomyelitis is considered one of the greatest achievements in preventive medicine. It has prevented millions of cases of paralysis and saved hundreds of thousands of lives. It has pushed back a disease that, in the 1950s, still paralyzed thousands of children in Germany and caused many deaths.

KEYMAKER-U03 is an international, multicenter, open-label, Phase I/II umbrella trial evaluating experimental combinations of pembrolizumab-based immunotherapy and targeted treatments for advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC).

Botulinum toxin injections provide greater short-term relief for phantom limb pain than standard medical and surgical care among Ukrainian war amputees, reports a new study led by Northwestern Medicine and Ukrainian physicians.

As we head deeper into fall and toward the holiday season, your little one may start to exhibit symptoms like a runny nose, cough, or fever. But with the overlap between the common cold, influenza (the flu), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and COVID-19, it can be difficult to know what is behind their illness and how to treat it.

Brain connectivity patterns and environmental factors can predict which older adults will successfully increase physical activity after receiving a cardiovascular diagnosis. Nagashree Thovinakere and colleagues studied 295 cognitively healthy but physically inactive older adults from the UK Biobank who received cardiovascular diagnoses during a roughly four-year period. Their findings are published in PNAS Nexus.

A new development in affordable, open-source mobile networks that enables near-real-time control of robotic arms could help doctors work on patients in remote locations in the years to come.