https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Scientists have made great progress in harnessing the body's own immune cells to treat so-called liquid tumors, cancers of the blood and lymphatic system. Yet these powerful cell therapies have been no match for solid tumors, which are tough to access and secrete signals that can stifle immune cells that get too close. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-supercharged-natural-killer-cells-suppress.html Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:40:13 EDT news700395061 At Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, just outside Los Angeles, patients on gurneys line the hallways of the emergency department waiting for care, and overflow mental health patients are consigned to outdoor tents. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-states-eye-aid-prop-distressed.html Thu, 07 May 2026 17:40:01 EDT news697359230 Modern medicine prides itself on being a universal science, built on evidence from clinical trials. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-bias-medical-africa-huge-disease.html Mon, 04 May 2026 11:20:01 EDT news697109701 A new study from Monash University has revealed that long-term back problems will cost the Australian economy an estimated $638 billion in lost productivity over the next decade unless urgent action is taken. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-pain-billion-productivity-black-hole.html Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:20:03 EDT news675332401 Long-term survivors of stroke in Australia have "fallen into a black hole," left with lifelong disability with "inadequate" ongoing services and support, according to the authors of a Perspective published today by the Medical Journal of Australia. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-aussie-survivors-fallen-black-hole.html Mon, 29 Aug 2022 09:53:03 EDT news580985581 Lost in the U.S. launch of the coronavirus vaccine is a fact most don't know when they roll up their sleeves: In rare cases of serious illness from the shots, the injured are blocked from suing and steered instead to an obscure federal bureaucracy with a record of seldom paying claims. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-vaccine-injury-bureaucratic-black-hole.html Tue, 22 Dec 2020 03:50:01 EST news527830964 Seeing a health professional for a full health screening—even when you feel healthy—from around age 40 enables people to make changes when problems first set in, experts say. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-07-health-age-black-hole.html Mon, 01 Jul 2019 10:31:16 EDT news481195830