https://medicalxpress.com/preventive-medicine-news/ en-us Latest medical news and research in Preventive medicine Better cardiovascular health (CVH) is nonlinearly and inversely associated with overactive bladder (OAB), according to a study published in the August issue of the Annals of Medicine & Surgery. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-cardiovascular-health-inversely-linked-overactive.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:40:09 EDT news708868188 With climate change leading to more extreme and prolonged heavy rainfall across the northern hemisphere, flooding is a risk, especially in fall and winter. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-biggest-death.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:00:24 EDT news708879182 Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) are the clinical gold standards for screening blood sugar levels, yet they provide only static snapshots that fail to reflect the highly dynamic and heterogeneous nature of metabolic impairment. However, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is reshaping our understanding of these levels. While the medical community already has begun capitalizing on CGM for diabetes management, a new study has the potential to change current clinical practices for cardiovascular disease risk stratification in individuals without diabetes. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-glucose-reveal-hidden-heart-patterns.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:00:37 EDT news708863041 Greater amounts of REM and deep sleep were associated with lower risks of dozens of diseases, and less than 5 hours of total sleep was associated with high disease risks, according to a new study published Sept. 17 in the journal PLOS Medicine by Shengzhi Sun of Capital Medical University, China, and colleagues. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-rem-deep-total-disease.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:00:13 EDT news708797641 Every year, around 1.9 million people worldwide are diagnosed with bowel cancer. To prevent the disease, many countries have introduced screening programs that enable more polyps to be detected and removed before cancer develops. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-trial-frequent-colonoscopies-safely-high.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:20:13 EDT news708856921 Scroll through social media these days and you'll likely come across someone injecting themselves with a clear liquid, raving about how it's changed their body for the better, improved their recovery or maybe their skin. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-peptides-social-media-platforms-health.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:40:01 EDT news708847904 In the United States, areas such as Michigan have been hotspots for residents pushing back against data center construction in their neighborhoods. Now, similar concerns about noise—and potential health impacts—are gaining traction in Australia. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-centers-noisy-bad-health.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:20:06 EDT news708847082 Most Australians recognize climate change as a serious national issue, and many believe it poses a serious risk to their personal health, according to new research led by the Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI) at Macquarie University and published in the Medical Journal of Australia. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-australians-health-ready-climate-emergencies.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:20:03 EDT news708845102 Twelve candidate indicators, based on studies in mice, could make developing anti-aging interventions faster—while offering new insights into age-related diseases. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-pace-aging-anti-breakthroughs.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:00:06 EDT news708696943 The number of Americans who have personally been victims of physical or sexual violence is much higher than one might think, a new report says. More than half of U.S. adults have experienced physical violence in their lifetimes, and nearly half have experienced sexual violence, researchers found. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-americans-victims-violence.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:40:02 EDT news708761396 U.S. health officials knowingly relied on a compromised algorithm to detect signals of harm from mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and silenced efforts to fix it, finds an investigation published by The BMJ today. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-sidelined-flawed-covid-vaccine-safety.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:30:01 EDT news708798361 Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of how people seek, interpret and act on health information. Yet the technology is advancing faster than the evidence needed to determine whether these systems actually help people understand what matters, make informed health decisions and know what to do next. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-ai-health-ready.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:20:04 EDT news708797401 A healthy diet lowers the risk of type 2 diabetes. However, the extent of this protective effect may be influenced by epigenetic factors. This is suggested by a new study conducted by researchers from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) and the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE). The results have been published in Cardiovascular Diabetology. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-diabetes-epigenetic-benefits-healthy-diet.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:00:04 EDT news708792721 A team from the Department of Computational Biology at the University of Lausanne has developed an artificial intelligence model capable of estimating a person's retinal age from a simple photograph of the back of the eye. This measure provides information about health and the future risk of developing age-related diseases. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-ai-retinal-age-revealing-sex.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:40:08 EDT news708788461 Incorporating a free smartphone app featuring AI-driven health coaching, blood pressure monitoring and behavioral incentives into a hospital's existing clinical workflows helps patients make meaningful reductions in blood pressure, findings that suggest digital apps may offer an effective means of extending care beyond the clinic when incorporated into treatment plans. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-ai-powered-app-lowers-high.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:20:05 EDT news708783062 Emergency department (ED) visits for gambling disorders doubled following the legalization of single-event sports betting and expansion of Ontario's online gambling market, according to a new study from ICES. The increase was observed predominantly among young men. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-emergency-department-gambling-disorders-ontario.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:10:01 EDT news708682741 A study by DZNE finds that healthy eating is associated with slower biological aging—and that there is more than one way to eat healthily. The researchers examined 10 dietary patterns considered healthy, including the Mediterranean, Nordic, and a plant-based diet, as well as the DASH diet, which is designed to help lower blood pressure. All were linked with slower biological aging, with age-related changes in the DNA serving as markers. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-healthy-linked-slower-biological-aging.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:40:01 EDT news708766681 When something in the human body goes awry, medical science has an impressive repair kit. Fractured leg? A cast will keep it intact until it heals. Cloudy eye lens? Doctors swap in a clear artificial one. A kidney that can't filter blood? Dialysis temporarily outsources the job. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-quiet-mind-brain.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:40:09 EDT news708762362 Pennsylvania officials have reported a fourth measles-associated death. The latest death involved an 18-year-old resident of Mifflin County, in the center of the state, the county coroner's office said in a Facebook post. The cause was acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare and severe neurological complication of measles, it said. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-fourth-measles-death-pennsylvania.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:10:39 EDT news708750606 Nearly half of all children under 5 in developing regions are poor, undernourished or both, according to a report published today by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford. The report sheds new light on deprivations in child nutrition and school attendance across the developing world, revealing important information on the scale and complexity of challenges facing children. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-million-young-children-countries-undernourished.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:40:02 EDT news708696847 Despite the high prevalence of vascular disease, few U.S. adults report discussing their vascular health, according to the results of a survey released by the Society for Vascular Surgery. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-adults-vascular-disease.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:20:04 EDT news708696834 Exposure to air pollutants, especially small particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), may heighten the risk of death by suicide and suicidal thoughts, suggests a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-air-pollutant-exposure-linked-heightened.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:30:02 EDT news708604801 Eating four to six servings of whole grains each day reduces several major risk factors for cardiovascular disease, according to a new study published in the European Heart Journal. The study is a systematic review and meta-analysis, meaning it brings together the results of all existing research in this area. It includes data from 87 clinical trials that tested the effects of eating whole-grain foods on risk factors for cardiovascular disease. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-grain-day-factors-heart-disease.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:00:05 EDT news708600972 Mobile low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening can reach high-risk and socially vulnerable populations in resource-limited settings, according to initial results from the Third Brazilian Early Lung Cancer Trial (BRELT3) presented at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) 2026 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-mobile-ct-lung-cancer-screening.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:20:09 EDT news708684012 In the 46 years since Dolly Parton wrote the workers' anthem "9 to 5," American jobs, and access to employment-based health insurance, have changed a lot. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-volatile-hours-access-employer-health.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:40:06 EDT news708702599 For the first time in Canada, researchers are intentionally exposing healthy volunteers to influenza under carefully controlled conditions to establish a research model that could accelerate the evaluation of future influenza vaccines and strengthen pandemic preparedness. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-volunteers-intentionally-exposed-influenza-advance.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:40:01 EDT news708697798 The Tampa Bay Times reported the death of an older woman on Sept. 8, 2026. Her family says local doctors attributed her death to dengue fever, although the Florida Department of Health has not yet confirmed it. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-denguecarrying-mosquitoes-territories-florida.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:00:07 EDT news708684302 The Family Heart Foundation has published a new study in JACC: Advances demonstrating how its FIND Lp(a) Machine Learning Model can identify people with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) who are more likely to have high lipoprotein(a)—or Lp(a). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-machine-enables-lpa-screening.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:20:05 EDT news708684021 Fatal drug overdoses have long been the focus of the nation's overdose crisis, but nonfatal overdoses occur far more frequently. These events often bring people to emergency departments, creating opportunities to connect them with lifesaving treatment and prevention services. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-nonfatal-overdose-hotspots-palm-beach.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:40:01 EDT news708682802 Individuals with disabilities have a lower prevalence of breast and cervical cancer screening, according to a study published in Cancer. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-breast-cervical-cancer-screening-adults.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:20:04 EDT news708673373