https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Some alkaline mineral and medicinal waters may weaken the enteric coating of medications within just a few minutes, potentially reducing their effectiveness, according to a new study by Semmelweis University. The study, published in Pharmaceutics, found that if the active ingredient is released too early in the stomach rather than in the intestinal tract, it may reduce—and in extreme cases, even eliminate—the effectiveness of certain anti-reflux, gastroprotective, psychiatric or anti-inflammatory pain-relief medications. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-liquid-medication.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:00:05 EDT news700329001 University students who aren't always enthused about walking across campus for class can take heart in new research that suggests lots of daily steps translate to improved mental health and better sleep. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-linked-healthful-rest-college-students.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:20:05 EDT news700234149 Fiber is an essential part of a healthy diet. By eating a variety of plant-based foods, increasing fiber intake gradually and staying well hydrated, you can support gut health and overall well-being while making fiber goals more achievable and sustainable. Purna Kashyap, M.B.B.S., a gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, offers tips to add fiber to your diet. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-fiber-gut-health-expert-kind.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:00:02 EDT news700204502 Last year, one of Rebecca DiBiase Blumenreich's patients had a hemorrhagic stroke. A life-threatening emergency, this type of stroke happens when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures and bleeds. For the patient, the course of treatment following the stroke was complicated; Blumenreich was with her every step of the way. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-qa-physician-discusses.html Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:40:01 EDT news700154102 Including blueberries, plums, blackberries, broad beans or cherries (washed down with green tea) in your recommended five-a-day (five 80g portions of fruit and vegetables, recommended by the UK's NHS) may be the best way to a healthier heart, new research suggests. The work, involving scientists from the University of Reading, Harvard Medical School, the University of California Davis, and Mars, Inc., found that fewer than one in five people reached the flavanol intake that has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, even including those who regularly ate five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-fruits-vegetables-good-heart-health.html Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:01 EDT news699811201 Got some brown bananas on the counter, or soggy salad in the fridge? If so, you're not alone. Research shows on average, Australian households waste about 30% of the food we buy—or 2.5 million tons each year. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-food-chuck-nutritionist.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:20:04 EDT news699528301 A News and Perspectives expert analysis on consumer wearable platforms' forays into the clinical health care space. Authored by MedTech expert Blythe Karow, MBA, "Meet the New Health Care Gatekeeper: Your Wearable" lays out the implications of wearable tech companies owning the first conversation about a patient's health, as well as the potential impacts on patient trust, policy, and regulation. The analysis appears in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-analysis-reveals-consumer-wearables-emerge.html Fri, 29 May 2026 11:20:03 EDT news699268837 An experimental diagnostic tool in the form of a computer game was able to quickly identify patients with depression based on anhedonia, a key feature of the disease, a new study shows. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-minute-video-game-patients-depression.html Tue, 19 May 2026 19:00:01 EDT news698429462 Every day, millions of Americans open a fitness app, glance at their step count, and may even feel a mild pang of guilt before closing it again. The problem with most health tracking technology is that it watches your activity, but it doesn't really know you. A research initiative out of Stanford University School of Medicine is betting that the difference between an app people ignore and one that actually changes behavior comes down to a simple idea: the right message, for the right person, at the right moment. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-ai-rewrites-cardiovascular.html Sat, 16 May 2026 11:00:05 EDT news697800797 A 21-element recovery program for children undergoing gastrointestinal surgery reduced opioid use during hospitalization by 56%, according to a large clinical trial led by Northwestern University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-pediatric-surgery-opioid.html Wed, 13 May 2026 11:00:09 EDT news697796941 In Nepal's remote mountain district of Jumla, preparation for a family meal begins long before food reaches the cooking pot. It starts in terraced fields of beans, buckwheat, apples and pumpkins that must be plowed, planted, tended and harvested before a family can eat. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-pollinating-insects-diets-livelihoods-worldwide.html Sun, 10 May 2026 19:30:01 EDT news697293146 Although the United States requires a warning label on alcoholic beverages, alcohol-related deaths have risen steadily over the past two decades. However, new labels warning of specific disease risks, including cancer and liver disease, could better motivate reduced drinking, according to a new study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-alcohol-prompt-people.html Tue, 05 May 2026 01:00:02 EDT news696579753 Researchers at City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment organization, and the University of California, Berkeley, have created a novel microfluidic platform that can assess women's breast cancer risk at the cellular level. The first-of-its-kind platform squeezes individual breast epithelial cells, creating a taxing environment to measure how they deform, recover, and behave under stress, according to a new study published in eBioMedicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-ai-individual-breast-cells-cancer.html Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:30:01 EDT news696167581 Imagine you and your partner are sitting in the waiting room of your doctor's office, waiting for your appointment to get birth control—and instead of calculating how many other people will be called before you, or perusing old magazines, a nurse hands you a digital tablet and encourages you to play a game. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-health-video-game-bridge-communication.html Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:20:07 EDT news695561102 Our brains anticipate sensory signals—such as sight, sound, smell, or touch—by relying on past experiences. When we bite into an apple, for example, we expect a sweet crunch because of all the other times we have eaten one. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-music-symptoms-psychosis.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:20:01 EDT news695471402 Paula Vanderpluym's smartwatch may look like a small part of her wardrobe, but to a team of researchers in Toronto, it represents something bigger: the potential to proactively care for people living with heart failure. A new study led by researchers at University Health Network and the University of Toronto shows that data from a consumer smartwatch can detect early signs of worsening heart failure—days to weeks before unplanned medical care is needed. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-smartwatches-hospitalization-due-heart-failure.html Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:00:07 EDT news694973162 When most people think of Cirque du Soleil, they envision bodies flying through the air, performers bending in ways that defy anatomy and acts so daring they sit on the edge of danger. With such breathtaking risk involved, it's easy to assume the injury rate, especially concussions, must be high. But thanks to a new study led by Ohio University's Dr. Jeff Russell, we now know just how often head injuries actually happen under the big top. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-big-decade-injuries-cirque-du.html Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:10:01 EDT news694850162 Imagination is one of the most powerful things our brains can do. We can relive past events while taking a walk, rehearse future conversations through inner speech or sense the heat of a fire without touching it—allowing us to learn, plan and avoid danger without direct experience. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-higherlevel-brain-perception-play-central.html Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:00:03 EDT news694165425 A new study by York University researchers has found a potential striking flaw in artificial intelligence (AI) models. Artificial neural networks (ANNs), a type of AI model built to solve vision tasks for computers, have surprisingly emerged as the current best understanding of how our own brain's visual system works, in the last decade. But does current AI really work like a primate brain? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-rethinking-brain-artificial-intelligence-reveals.html Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:00:08 EDT news693752839 If you've ever tried a diet to fix gut symptoms, you'll know it can be hit or miss. One person swears it changed their life. Another follows it carefully and feels no better. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-ibs-diets-dont-food.html Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:20:12 EDT news693825182 When people binge eat, it's rarely broccoli or apples on the menu. Instead, foods like cake, cookies, ice cream and chocolate consistently show up—and a new University of Michigan study suggests that's no coincidence. An analysis of more than four decades of research reveals that highly processed foods are not just common in binge-eating episodes—they are nearly universal. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-binge-evidence-foods.html Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:30:01 EDT news693574169 Higher combined consumption of fruits, vegetables, legumes, and potatoes may reduce the risk for Crohn disease (CD), according to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-higher-intake-fruits-veggies-legumes.html Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:40:01 EDT news693488730 Health officials are warning consumers about a cream cheese recall that has been raised to the most critical level due to possible bacterial contamination. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-cream-cheese-recall-listeria-fda.html Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:40:01 EDT news692965003 A research lab at the University of Caen Normandy (France) has succeeded in making cartilage using decellularized apples. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-lab-grown-human-cartilage-apples.html Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:04:49 EST news690638642 In September 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the Apple Watch Hypertension Notifications Feature, a cuffless tool that uses the watch's optical sensors to detect blood flow patterns and alert users when their data suggest possible hypertension. While the feature is not intended to diagnose high blood pressure, it represents a step toward wearable-based population screening. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-reveals-gaps-apple-ability-undiagnosed.html Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:00:01 EST news689592722 BMJ Group has retracted research suggesting that small daily quantities of apple cider vinegar might help people who are overweight or obese to lose weight. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-journal-retracts-paper-apple-cider.html Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:30:03 EDT news677773941 We're constantly told to "eat healthy"—but what does that actually mean? Even doctors sometimes struggle to offer clear, practical advice on which specific foods support health, why they work and what real benefits people can expect. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-tea-chocolate-apples-blood-pressure.html Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:57:05 EDT news671281021 New research has found that those who consume a diverse range of foods rich in flavonoids, such as tea, berries, dark chocolate, and apples, could lower their risk of developing serious health conditions and have the potential to live longer. The study was led by a team of researchers from Queen's University Belfast, Edith Cowan University Perth (ECU), and the Medical University of Vienna and Universitat Wien. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-tea-berries-dark-chocolate-apples.html Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:17:55 EDT news668168271 ]Eating an orange a day may lower a person's depression risk by 20%, according to a study published in Microbiome. That might be because citrus stimulates the growth of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii (F. prausnitzii), a type of bacteria found in the human gut, to influence production of the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine—two biological molecules known to elevate mood. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-apples-outlines-orange-day-depression.html Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:16:00 EST news659621755 "Severance," which imagines a world where a person's work and personal lives are surgically separated, will soon return to Apple TV+ for a second season. While the concept of this gripping piece of science fiction is far-fetched, it touches on some interesting neuroscience. Can a person's mind really be surgically split in two? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-severance-real-cognitive-neuroscience-apple.html Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:20:04 EST news656168569