Why are people drinking less in the US? A beer historian has the answers

As our population ages, we're living longer and dying older. End-of-life care is therefore an increasingly important part of aged care. In Australia, around 50% of people aged over 85 die in an aged care home.

Our sense of smell is more important than we often realize. It helps us enjoy food, detect danger like smoke or gas leaks, and even affects our memory and emotions. Many people—especially after COVID-19, aging, or brain injury—suffer from a loss of smell. However, there are very few effective treatments, and those that exist often use strong scents or medicines that cause discomfort in patients.

The most common cancer-causing strain of human papillomavirus (HPV), HPV16, undermines the body's defenses by reprogramming immune cells surrounding the tumor, according to new research from the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Cerebrovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis and stroke remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A common feature of these diseases is vascular stenosis, i.e., the narrowing of blood vessels, which disrupts normal blood flow and contributes to chronic inflammation in the vessel wall. Endothelial cells lining the vasculature play a key role in sensing shear stress from blood flow and responding to disturbed hemodynamics by expressing pro-inflammatory molecules. However, studying this phenomenon in vivo is challenging due to the complexity and variability of living systems.

A hybrid reading strategy for screening mammography, developed by Dutch researchers and deployed retrospectively to more than 40,000 exams, reduced radiologist workload by 38% without changing recall or cancer detection rates.

Art Sullivan, a 38-year-old Ironman athlete, and Josh Lehman, 48, who works at the University of Rochester, are connected by an unlikely foe: a type of brain tumor called an astrocytoma that tends to afflict younger adults. They are also benefiting from the first new treatment for this cancer in decades—and it's changing their lives.

After experiencing catastrophic storms from near and far, anxiety might creep up when you hear about the next weather event. A Baylor College of Medicine psychiatrist offers tips to maintain distress ahead of upcoming storms.

Artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT could potentially be used to motivate people to make healthier choices, but currently veer away from best practice, new Flinders University research has found.

Adolescents and young adults say they want to learn about HIV prevention the same way they learn about new tunes, life hacks, and the latest slang—on social media, according to a new study led by physician-scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Boston Children's Hospital.

New research from Monash University's SPHERE Center of Research Excellence has found strong interest among Australian midwives for delivering contraceptive care during postnatal home visits.

The first global systematic review and meta-analysis of hepatitis B care has found critical patient losses at every step of care, calling for decentralized, integrated models to improve diagnosis, treatment, and patient retention.

Sub-Saharan Africa currently has the highest infant mortality rate in the world, with 27 babies out of every 1,000 live births dying in their first month. As the climate warms, pregnant women in the region are increasingly exposed to extreme heat, which can cause reduced placental blood flow and dehydration, potentially affecting fetal development. In addition, extreme heat can lead to the proliferation of pathogenic bacteria in the environment, and can make it difficult for women to travel to prenatal care appointments.

West Nile virus (WNV) has been the dominant cause of mosquito-borne illness in the United States since its introduction into North America in 1999. There are no vaccines nor medications to prevent or treat illness in people, so surveillance, prevention, and control remain the best options to protect the public.

UC Berkeley scientists tricked the eye into seeing "the greenest green" they'd ever seen. They say it could transform how we understand and treat eye diseases, and expand the way we see the world around us.

A multi-institution team across Canada and the West Indies reports that gaze patterns can serve as a sensitive marker of cognitive decline, with associated reductions in explorative, adaptive, and differentiated visual sampling of the environment.

University of Warwick researchers have built a new diamond-based magnetic field sensor that could be used to better find tumors through tracing magnetic fluid injected into the body.

It's often mistaken for a heart attack, but Takotsubo cardiomyopathy—previously known as Broken Heart syndrome—is a serious and sometimes fatal heart condition increasingly reported in intensive care units (ICUs). Yet without a clear clinical pathway in ICUs, it's often missed, putting critically ill patients at risk.

When you visit a doctor, you expect them to listen. But in today's fast-paced health care system, real listening—the kind that makes you feel seen, heard and understood—can be the first thing to go.