https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Vaccines help the immune system to recognize and fight many types of diseases, from viral illnesses like COVID-19 to bacterial infections like tetanus. In 2024, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that routine childhood immunizations had prevented more than 1.1 million child deaths over the past 30 years. Yet in 2021, one of four children in Tennessee under two years old had not received all their CDC-recommended vaccines. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-app-vaccine-barriers-families.html Tue, 26 May 2026 11:00:05 EDT news699011461 Mayo Clinic physician and researcher Dr. Abba Zubair's work combines two passions—medicine and space—for the benefit of astronauts and people on Earth. His research in space is yielding discoveries in cancer, stroke, bone loss and more. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-iss-links-bone-loss-astronauts.html Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:24:08 EDT news671120643 The International Space Station (ISS) is an incredible feat of engineering, designed to support human life in profoundly inhospitable conditions. But the tiny metal bubble in the big black void can only do so much. Life in space, with zero gravity and higher exposure to cosmic radiation, can have serious consequences for spacefarers' health. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-health-orbit-spaceflight-affects-blood.html Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:11:23 EST news650131877 Astronauts have been able to track their muscle health in spaceflight for the first time using a handheld device, revealing which muscles are most at risk of weakening in low gravity conditions. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-muscle-space-astronauts-stay-strong.html Wed, 20 Mar 2024 11:33:41 EDT news630153217 Space travel takes a toll on the human body. In fact, it's estimated that spending six months in microgravity can age organs and bones at least 10 years. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-06-scientists-aging-heart-disease-tissue-on-a-chip.html Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:30:04 EDT news606659401 New research from Tufts University School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences suggests that the timing of the death of certain inhibitory neurons in the brain shortly after birth may be at least partly to blame for infantile spasms syndrome (ISS), a rare but devastating form of epilepsy that develops most frequently between four and eight months of age but can emerge within weeks of birth until ages 4 or 5. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-potential-treatment-rare-infant-epilepsy.html Wed, 22 Feb 2023 04:21:03 EST news596262057 A novel staging framework that assesses the progression of Huntington's disease (HD), similar to the way cancer is staged 0 to 4, has been developed by UCL scientists as part of an international consortium; this 'significant' step paves the way for clinical trials of drugs in the earliest phase of disease. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-huntington-disease-revolutionize-drug-trials.html Thu, 16 Jun 2022 04:05:42 EDT news574571136 Female trauma patients have longer delays in trauma care and an increased likelihood of discharge to long-term care facilities compared with male trauma patients, according to a study published online May 18 in JAMA Surgery. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-05-longer-female-trauma-patients.html Wed, 18 May 2022 13:25:40 EDT news572099137 Italy's COVID vaccine campaign prevented some 150,000 deaths, slashing the country's death toll by almost half, the national health institute (ISS) said Wednesday. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-04-vaccines-halved-italy-covid-death.html Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:19:26 EDT news569060364 Launching no earlier than March 6 at 11:50 PM EST, the Johns Hopkins University will send heart muscle tissues, contained in a specially-designed tissue chip the size of a small cellphone, up to the microgravity environment of the International Space Station (ISS) for one month of observation. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-tissue-big-mission-heart-tissues.html Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:51:40 EST news502559494 About 75 percent of amputees exhibit mobility of their phantom limb. Using this information, in collaboration with physicians, researchers from CNRS and Aix-Marseille University have developed a prototype capable of detecting these movements and activating a prosthetic arm. The prosthesis does not require any surgery and patients do not need training. The results are published on November 29, 2018 in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-prosthetic-arm-decodes-phantom-limb.html Thu, 29 Nov 2018 07:58:18 EST news462700675 When is it appropriate to treat short children with growth hormone? The answer is not always clear-cut, as many parents and physicians have discovered over the past three decades. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-01-doctors-short-children-teens-growth.html Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:30:35 EST news404559029 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are more likely to develop chronic diseases based on the severity of their combat injuries, according to research in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-severity-combat-injury-linked-future.html Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:00:08 EST news365701690 (HealthDay)—The International Staging System (ISS) combined with chromosomal abnormalities (CA) detected by interphase fluorescent in situ hybridization after CD138 plasma cell purification and serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) has prognostic value in newly-diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM), according to a study published online Aug. 3 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-08-staging-prognostic-multiple-myeloma.html Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:31:32 EDT news357913882 Short boys are three times more likely than short girls to receive recombinant human growth hormone treatment for idiopathic short stature (ISS), even though in a general pediatric population, equal proportions of both genders fall under the height threshold designating ISS. Researchers who analyzed records of over 283,000 U.S. children and adolescents found a clear-cut and persistent gender bias in the provision of treatment. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-06-short-boys-girls-growth-hormone.html Wed, 10 Jun 2015 17:19:51 EDT news353175583 (HealthDay)—A new endovascular brachytherapy (EVBT) procedure using liquid beta-emitting rhenium-188 (Re-188) is safe and effective in preventing restenosis in people with long-segment femoropopliteal in-stent stenosis (ISS), according to research published in the August issue of the Journal of Endovascular Therapy. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-treatment-occlusion-arteries.html Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:30:01 EDT news265633614 The remoteness and resource limitations of spaceflight pose a serious challenge to astronaut health care. One solution is ultrasound. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-space-birth-ultrasound-tools-health.html Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:42:28 EDT news228062527 New research suggests that several commonly prescribed drugs for type 2 diabetes may not be as effective at preventing death and cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks and stroke, as the oral anti-diabetic drug, metformin. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-diabetes-drugs.html Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:38:19 EDT news221369886