https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Every minute counts when a donor organ is being transported for a transplant surgery. Historically, donor organs—usually stored on ice in coolers—have a limited window before they become unusable. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-student-team-cool-device-donor.html Mon, 11 May 2026 08:00:05 EDT news697702021 Since the mass introduction of antibiotics last century, bacteria have been fighting back with an arsenal of defensive mechanisms. Some produce enzymes that can digest the antibiotic molecule before it takes effect. Others have developed cell membranes that can recognize antibiotics and close down the openings by which they would normally enter. 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For millions of people living with neurological disorders such as ALS, this possibility could be life-changing. Their ability to think and feel remains intact, but the connection to the outside world is often disrupted. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-braincomputer-interfaces-easier-lego.html Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:32:09 EDT news678623524 Angel Martí, chair of Rice University's Department of Chemistry, is leading efforts to highlight chemistry's role in advancing brain health research. 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The team believes the device may be especially helpful in developing countries, which experience higher cancer mortality rates due in part to barriers to medical diagnosis. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-portable-device-colorectal-prostate-cancer.html Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:45:04 EDT news649003502 Construction work is physically demanding and dangerous, with some of the highest injury, illness and fatality rates across all occupations. 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The U.S. spends over $730 billion a year—nearly a third of all health care spending—on treating preventable diseases like diabetes. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-ai-outcomes-prediabetic-patients.html Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:49:32 EST news628361369 A new study published in Nature Cardiovascular Research has unveiled a remarkable discovery that may have far-reaching implications for the treatment of heart disease. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-microenvironment-specific-cell-key-hearts.html Thu, 15 Feb 2024 10:19:24 EST news627214758 Health care providers are learning critical new information to help improve care for patients with long COVID, thanks to a pair of recent studies out of the Post-COVID-19 Program at UT Health Austin, the clinical practice of Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. Over the past several months, UT researchers have edged closer to defining the pattern of symptoms it generates and how it affects patients, as well as developing methods to differentiate patients suffering from long COVID versus other conditions. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-unveil-key-insights-covid.html Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:30:03 EST news625851001 Before a baby is born, doctors hope for a safe delivery, and parents hope for a healthy child. Unfortunately, conditions such as kidney failure can only be detected after birth and require immediate treatment. 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The findings, published in Science Translational Medicine, may help unravel why the 2015 Zika outbreak led to thousands of miscarriages, stillbirths and cases of permanent birth defects. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-06-prior-dengue-infection-zika-virus.html Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:12:26 EDT news606481944 Learning a new task, mastering a musical instrument or being able to adapt to the constantly changing environment are all possible thanks to the brain's plasticity, or its ability to modify itself by rearranging existing neural networks and forming new ones to acquire new functional properties. This also helps neural circuits to remain healthy, robust and stable. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-brain-plasticity-oxytocin-neural-adult-born.html Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:00:01 EST news589726489 Appreciating the intrinsic beauty in life's everyday moments can contribute to a more meaningful existence, according to new research. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-small.html Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:31:04 EDT news577355462 Briefly blocking a key molecule when administering the only approved vaccine for tuberculosis vastly improves long-term protection against the devastating disease in mice, researchers from Texas Biomedical Research Institute report this week in the Journal of Immunology. The finding, if it continues to hold true in nonhuman primates and clinical trials, has the potential to save millions of lives. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-tuberculosis-vaccine-effective.html Fri, 11 Mar 2022 16:39:28 EST news566239161 Motion detection devices such as those found in your cellphone could be useful in predicting outcomes for patients who have suffered severe brain injury, a team of Johns Hopkins clinicians and engineers has found. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-12-wearable-motion-sensors-outcomes-patients.html Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08:39:37 EST news559211972 On Tuesday, July 27, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new mask guidelines, recommending that Americans resume wearing masks indoors in areas with high coronavirus transmission, regardless of vaccination status. While vaccinations reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, it is still possible for vaccinated individuals to spread the Delta variant to those who are unvaccinated. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-07-effectiveness-masks-particles-similar-size.html Thu, 29 Jul 2021 11:03:05 EDT news546775383 Admit it: Daily commutes—those stops, the starts, all that stress—gets on your last nerve. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-05-experiencing-accelerousal.html Mon, 10 May 2021 16:59:39 EDT news539884775 Although risk for melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, is often associated with ultraviolet light exposure, genetic factors are also at play, with some families being more prone to the disease than others. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-mutated-gene-melanoma.html Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:25:09 EDT news537434704