https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Stereotypes of autistic men in films and TV programs may contribute to delayed diagnosis of autistic women and non-binary people, a new University of Stirling study has found. Research conducted by a group of autistic and non-autistic researchers, led by Sarah Dantas of the University's Faculty of Natural Sciences, has found that women and non-binary people may experience delayed diagnosis because dominant images of autism in the media don't match their own experiences. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-stereotypes-autism-tv-linked-delayed.html Wed, 06 May 2026 21:20:01 EDT news697299483 Like the astronomical explosion that kickstarted the universe, bowel cancer has a "Big Bang" moment which determines how it will grow, according to new research. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-bowel-cancer-big-crucial-moment.html Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:10:01 EST news681562941 A deadly pandemic with mysterious origins: it might sound like a modern headline, but scientists have spent centuries debating the source of the Black Death that devastated the medieval world. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-black-death-mystery-years.html Wed, 15 Jun 2022 11:21:25 EDT news574510877 More than one million Europeans have received the new EU COVID health certificate being rolled out to unlock travel within the bloc, the European Commission said on Tuesday. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-million-europeans-eu-covid-certificate.html Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:17:04 EDT news542369821 Adolescent girls who reach puberty at an earlier age may also have a greater chance of developing migraine headaches, according to new research from investigators at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-07-early-puberty-girls-big-theory.html Thu, 11 Jul 2019 14:19:49 EDT news482073569 Having a health insurance card in America is no guarantee of medical care without the risk of financial ruin. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-02-big-health.html Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:32:11 EST news468585116 Scientists have discovered a "Big Bang" of Alzheimer's disease – the precise point at which a healthy protein becomes toxic but has not yet formed deadly tangles in the brain. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-07-big-alzheimer-scientists-id-genesis.html Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:14:29 EDT news450454442