https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. No matter the size or severity, wounds on human skin are difficult to monitor while they heal. Biopsies disrupt the wound site and are too invasive for routine, repeated monitoring, and most medical imaging devices that could do the job are large, expensive, and booked up with more pressing diagnostics. Clinicians typically resort to visual inspection or quick measurements of the wound's size over time. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-ai-powered-imaging-tracks-wound.html Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:20:05 EDT news693230641 In the clamor of a crowded café or the din of a busy street, your brain performs a quiet miracle—tuning into one voice while filtering out the rest. This ability, known as auditory attention, is crucial to how we learn, communicate and connect. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-track-attention-earbuds-echoes.html Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:54:04 EDT news669905641 Soon we will once again switch to winter time, that is, we set the clocks back an hour. Switching to winter time is considered the easier of the two annual clock transitions, as we gain an hour of sleep. Some people may find the one-hour change challenging, as our sleep patterns can be momentarily disturbed. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-deprivation-affect-temporarily.html Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:28:28 EDT news648901703 Sleep has a huge impact on health, well-being and productivity, but how long and how well people sleep these days has not been accurately reported. Previous research on how much and how well we sleep has mostly relied on self-reports or was confined within the data from the unnatural environments of the sleep laboratories. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-07-delays-prevalent-countries-culture.html Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:22:04 EDT news608898121 Cardiac device wearers should keep a safe distance from smartphones to avoid unwanted painful shocks or pauses in function, reveals research presented today at EHRA EUROPACE—CARDIOSTIM 2015 by Dr. Carsten Lennerz, first author and cardiology resident in the Clinic for Heart and Circulatory Diseases, German Heart Centre, Munich, Germany. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-06-cardiac-device-wearers-distance-smartphones.html Mon, 22 Jun 2015 03:09:21 EDT news354161347 Theta-band activity in hippocampus after an event seems to be crucial for learning. A study at the University of Jyväskylä also proved that the absence of theta facilitated learning a simple task while training during theta had no effect on learning. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-05-neural-states-affect.html Wed, 07 May 2014 11:31:27 EDT news318681078 Technology that turns low-cost mobile phones into sophisticated stethoscopes could save thousands of lives in poor countries. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-mobile-heart-lifeline.html Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:59:00 EDT news235385906