https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Health policy changes in Washington will ripple through the country, resulting in millions of Americans losing their Medicaid or Affordable Care Act coverage. But there are still ways to find care. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-youre-uninsured.html Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:46:40 EST news689532361 Researchers from the University of Twente, MST and Politecnico di Milano conducted a pilot study to explore whether a GPT-controlled social robot can support patients with medical information in a hospital setting. The first results are cautiously positive: patients and caregivers accept the technology. The research focuses on technical, organizational and ethical feasibility. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-social-robot-ai-patient-clinician.html Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:30:35 EST news688912201 Researchers at the University of Oulu have identified genes that increase susceptibility to pneumonia. Alongside inherited risk factors, smoking and higher body mass were also found to raise the risk of developing the disease. The study, published in eBioMedicine, identified a total of 12 genetic regions associated with pneumonia risk, eight of which were identified for the first time. Many of these regions are linked to the regulation of the body's inflammatory response. 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This is an intelligent monitoring tool designed to support clinicians in keeping a close, ongoing watch over patients after treatment. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-prostate-cancer-recurrence-power-ai.html Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:50:07 EST news687692091 A new Curtin University study has found that people diagnosed with sarcoma—a cancer disproportionately affecting teenagers and young adults—are being left without the resources they urgently need. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-reveals-online-lacking-sarcoma-patients.html Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:00:01 EST news684493176 Researchers from the University of Oxford have benchmarked artificial intelligence (AI) tools capable of automatically removing personal information from patient electronic health records (EHRs) in a key step toward enabling large-scale, confidential medical research. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-ai-rival-humans-anonymizing-patient.html Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:34:12 EST news684491642 Physicians have worked to earn the trust of their patients for nearly 2,400 years, dating back to the days of Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine. 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The results of this research are expected to clarify the cause of autism at the molecular level and offer important clues for developing treatments for autism spectrum disorders and various other mental illnesses in the future. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-protein-abnormality-illuminates-communication-struggles.html Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:54:29 EST news683812441 The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidneys into people might really save lives. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-clinical-trial-pig-kidney-transplants.html Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:57:08 EST news681407822 As artificial intelligence (AI) use continues to grow in nearly every industry, it is important to establish guardrails to make sure the technology is used ethically and responsibly. This is especially true in the field of medicine, where errors can be a matter of life and death and patient information must be protected. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-experts-discuss-current-future-ai.html Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:35:31 EDT news679926926 Young adults turning to TikTok for sexual health information are being confronted with misinformation, according to research presented during the American Academy of Pediatrics 2025 National Conference & Exhibition at the Colorado Convention Center from Sept. 26–30. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-sexual-health-tiktoks-inaccurate.html Fri, 26 Sep 2025 03:10:17 EDT news677951641 Patients are increasingly turning to AI for medical information and even advice, but how should they approach using AI-powered services? A new study published Sept. 3 in the journal Future Science OA, provides insight into this question for the fast-moving field of blood cancer, evaluating the quality of responses by ChatGPT to a set of 10 medical questions. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-chatbot-accuracy-fast-blood-cancer.html Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:00:01 EDT news675954605 The Trump administration is pushing an initiative for millions of Americans to upload personal health data and medical records on new apps and systems run by private tech companies, promising that will make it easier to access health records and monitor wellness. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-trump-administration-private-health-tracking.html Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:20:02 EDT news673110476 A new study has found clear evidence of inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotic treatments to children and young people (CYP) and low levels of aftercare monitoring by GPs and also raises concerns about the clarity of best practice guidelines across different care settings and the completeness of data available to researchers. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-antipsychotic-treatments-children-young-people.html Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:30:07 EDT news671714903 Proteoglycans are large molecules that are important for tissues all over the body. 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But their role in cancer is less clear: while some proteoglycans protect against cancer, others can promote tumor growth. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-family-molecules-breast-cancer.html Wed, 18 Jun 2025 05:13:03 EDT news669442382 Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language-processing regions in the brain, according to a study published in PLOS Biology by Bo Liu from Beijing Normal University, China, and colleagues. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-patients-brain-vision-language-knowledge.html Tue, 20 May 2025 16:11:03 EDT news666976261 U.S. health care organizations are filing for bankruptcy at record rates as they increasingly rely on risky debt, leading to increases in staff turnover and harm to patients—particularly elderly ones living in nursing homes. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-health-bankrupt-patients-pay-price.html Thu, 15 May 2025 08:54:04 EDT news666518042 A study by Assistant Professor Karmen S. Williams and colleagues highlights Indiana's health data network as a model for the nation. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-lauds-indiana-driven-approach-population.html Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:40:03 EDT news665156402 Artificial Intelligence is helping UC Davis Health predict which patients may need immediate care and eventually keep them from being hospitalized. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-patient-ai-patients.html Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:04:05 EDT news663509042 Investigators at Mass General Brigham have developed a tool that can identify older adults at increased risk of emergency health care needs, rehospitalization or death. The tool measured patient frailty, an aging-related syndrome, by integrating the health records of more than 500,000 individuals collected across multiple hospitals at Mass General Brigham. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-frailty-tool-vulnerable-older-adults.html Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:05 EST news659347371 Three of the leading chatbots can provide basic information about endometriosis, a painful gynecologic condition that affects up to 1 in 10 women, but their responses are not as comprehensive as the guidance from health care providers, according to a study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers. Their findings, published in AJOG Global Reports, sound a cautionary note for patients who turn to generative artificial intelligence (AI) for medical information. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-ai-chatbots-incomplete-endometriosis.html Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:24:04 EST news659280242 Five years on from the start of the pandemic, with its worldwide lockdowns and border closures, new data has revealed a way of tracking waves of COVID-19, and suggests one staple of pandemic life is still very much needed. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-covid-antivirals-70s-australia.html Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:20:04 EST news658426801 A new study by heart researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City finds that patients with heart disease, specifically those with heart failure, are especially vulnerable to the impacts of air pollution and poor air quality and can take steps to protect themselves. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-air-pollution-inflammation-primarily-patients.html Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:36:13 EST news651155768 A recent study from researchers at University Hospitals Connor Whole Health has shed light on the experiences and perspectives of patients using electronic intake forms within outpatient Integrative Health and Medicine (IHM). Their approach streamlines the collection of crucial patient information to enhance the overall health care experience and improve clinical care. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-hospital-patient-feedback-intake.html Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:47:55 EST news650731670 Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to command attention from senior leaders in health systems as executives search for ways to leverage the technology, according to the Top of Mind for Top Health Systems survey published by the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) at UPMC. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-ai-potential-health-survey.html Fri, 23 Aug 2024 12:43:02 EDT news643635781 Rural Americans have higher rates of lung, colorectal and cervical cancers and higher cancer death rates overall compared to their metropolitan counterparts. They also have lower access to cancer screening, treatment and specialty care, are less likely to have access to reliable transportation and health insurance and have higher prevalence of cancer risk factors, like smoking and obesity. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-rural-cancer-patients-health-access.html Sat, 03 Aug 2024 05:05:13 EDT news641880291 Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania revealed the most extensive single cell atlas of the human kidney, capturing the complexity of healthy and diseased kidneys at an unprecedented level and predicting chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression earlier in its course. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-cell-kidney-atlas-potential-treatments.html Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:16:04 EDT news641117761 Men looking to limit their odds for fatherhood probably have questions about vasectomy. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-good-info-vasectomy-snip-tiktok.html Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:50:02 EDT news638174157 Researchers from the Institut d'Investigació en Atenció Primària Jordi Gol (IDIAPJGol) and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) have led a study on the effectiveness of vaccines against COVID-19 among cancer patients in Catalonia. The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, recommends administering additional doses of the vaccine among this risk population. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-involving-patients-immunity-covid-people.html Wed, 19 Jun 2024 05:00:01 EDT news637939501 In a fast-paced digital age where patients can open their test results as soon as they are available, what happens when a patient reads through complicated results without a physician there to help them understand what it all means? And what happens when a patient misinterprets bad news as good news, or vice versa? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-qa-physician-discusses-unintended-consequences.html Tue, 07 May 2024 14:52:04 EDT news634312321