https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. People who are resilient to psychological stress are similar to each other—not in terms of appearance, but in the brain's response to stressful stimuli. Psychological resilience—the ability to cope effectively with adversity—plays a crucial role in how we feel about ourselves. So why are some people better able to cope with stress and mental strain over time than others? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-brains-similar-stress-fmri-results.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:00:05 EDT news700215810 New historical research has found that early stagecoach passengers were as concerned with motion sickness as they were with the risk of being robbed by highwaymen. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-motion-sickness-modern-phenomenon-reveals.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:20:07 EDT news700227362 A little over a year ago, about a dozen members of the Johns Hopkins Child Injury Prevention Network logged onto their monthly Zoom call. For those working in bustling emergency departments, the meeting is a chance to brainstorm ways to prevent the most troubling cases that come through their doors. A member of the group raised a virtual hand: "Can y'all do something about dog bites?" https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-kids-canines-safe.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:40:06 EDT news700216981 As travelers prepare to set off on summer trips, scorching temperatures lie in wait. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-stay-safe-extreme.html Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:20:05 EDT news700149772 Access to health care and insurance coverage strongly influence whether women take recommended amounts of folic acid to help prevent serious birth defects, according to University of California, Irvine researchers using the National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program data. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-folic-acid-access-gaps-birth.html Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:00:07 EDT news700142702 Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR-T, has transformed treatment for blood cancers. The immunotherapy involves reprogramming a patient's own immune cells to recognize and attack tumor cells. It offers many patients long-lasting remission and even a cure. Yet the approach still fails in many lymphomas—cancers that affect the lymphatic system—especially when cancer cells are located in lymph nodes. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-car-cells-penetrate-lymph-nodes.html Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:00:03 EDT news699624712 Did you know your body has an inbuilt sewerage system? It's called the lymphatic system, and is a crucial part of how your body fights infection and disease. Lately, the lymphatic system is causing a stir online, with some social media personalities promoting "lymphatic drainage" for beauty and skin health. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-lymphatic.html Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:40:03 EDT news699858902 Cerebral palsy is the most common disability that starts in childhood, affecting about 50 million people worldwide. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-exoskeletons-people-cerebral-palsy-reality.html Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:20:06 EDT news699797523 Short-term memories are thought to be formed deep within the brain in structures such as the hippocampus, but little is known about how and where memory-related information is kept in the brain or the process of drawing on this information. A good example is the sound of a car horn—most of us recognize it as a warning and know how to respond, even though not all horns sound the same and the circumstances in which we might hear a horn are different each time. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-brain-circuit-links-memory-revealing.html Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:40:03 EDT news699791102 Over the past few decades, researchers have developed effective treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a psychiatric disorder some people develop after experiencing trauma. These treatments often involve talking through the trauma and understanding what happened with a therapist. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-wrong-people-nonwestern-backgrounds-recover.html Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:20:05 EDT news699784681 New research by Georgetown scientists shows how the brain rewires itself to automate learned tasks. The findings challenge a long-held understanding of how humans master complex skills, suggesting that true multitasking is really possible. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-brain-true-multitasking-intensive.html Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:02 EDT news699698529 A pioneering clinical trial has successfully enabled two patients with end-stage kidney disease to receive previously improbable kidney transplants. These individuals were considered among the most difficult in the nation to match with a compatible donor kidney due to harmful antibodies they had developed ("sensitized"). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-car-treatment-door-patients-kidney.html Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:00:05 EDT news699715466 A major real-world study by University of California, Irvine pharmacy researchers has found serious blood-related side effects associated with antibody-drug conjugates, an increasingly important class of targeted cancer therapies. Over the years, many novel ADC therapies have been approved for treating various types of cancers. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-infection-linked-cancer-therapies.html Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:00:04 EDT news699624195 Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered a promising new way to improve CAR-T cell therapy for solid tumors such as lung cancer and melanoma. The study, published in Nature Cancer, found that focused irradiation, a targeted therapy that delivers high-energy beams to stun rapidly growing cells such as cancer, can help CAR-T cells survive longer and work more effectively inside tumors. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-irradiation-car-cell-therapy-solid.html Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:00:03 EDT news699628561 Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they used a form of magnetic imaging to track cell therapy injections commonly used to treat certain autoimmune diseases and cancers. The findings, from a study of mice, add to a growing body of evidence that magnetic particle imaging (MPI), a new technique that allows scientists to visualize therapeutic cells as they inject them, may eventually help researchers personalize cell therapy treatments for individual patients. The study is published in Science Advances. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-magnetic-particle-imaging-tailor-cell.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:20:06 EDT news699543045 Researchers at Monash University and The Alfred are pioneering a method of analyzing blood samples to diagnose concussion in people aged over 60, the world's most at-risk group for the condition. Concussion, or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), is a significant and escalating public health problem, and older adults experience the highest rates related to hospitalizations and deaths. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-blood-samples-uncover-concussion-older.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:40:08 EDT news699531961 A new study has uncovered why many patients with relapsed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (rDLBCL) fail to respond as well as expected to newly approved cancer therapies. Patients treated with novel therapies in routine practice often experience poorer responses and greater toxicity than those reported in clinical trials. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-reality-real-world-lymphoma-patients.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:00:01 EDT news699524582 Whether you're commuting to work or road-tripping up the coast, driving can be tiring. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-why-do-i-get-so.html Thu, 28 May 2026 17:40:03 EDT news699190852 Researchers at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in collaboration with investigators from 32 countries participating in the SUNRISE International Study, have published new findings examining how restrained sitting contributes to daily movement patterns in early childhood. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-international-highlights-impact-restrained-movement.html Thu, 28 May 2026 16:40:05 EDT news699191682 A Mount Sinai-led research team has demonstrated that autoimmunity, in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissues, is responsible for the often-debilitating and confounding symptoms of long COVID in a subset of people. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-scientists-validate-link-autoimmunity-covid.html Thu, 28 May 2026 11:00:05 EDT news699120421 Navigating Vancouver's streets on foot can feel somewhat perilous. Cars, cyclists and e-scooters come at you from all directions. Construction shuts off walkways leading to diversions. Sidewalks are often uneven and in need of repair. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-urges-inclusive-urban-dementia.html Wed, 27 May 2026 13:00:06 EDT news699104761 It's a cool Tuesday night in Columbia, South Carolina, and fans of the minor league baseball team the Columbia Fireflies are letting an opposing batter named Marcos Torres hear it. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-athletes-depression-anxiety-suicide-minority.html Tue, 26 May 2026 15:00:04 EDT news699020641 At age 49, Jan Janisch-Hanzlik's multiple sclerosis was destroying her freedom to live the life she wanted. She gave up her active nursing job for a desk role. Frequent falls made her afraid to carry her grandchildren. She had to move to a bigger house to make room for the wheelchair she feared she might end up needing full-time. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-car-cancer-autoimmune-disease-immune.html Tue, 26 May 2026 11:40:01 EDT news699012782 Two state transportation workers were replacing a sign on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 6 in western Colorado one morning when a Jeep Grand Cherokee swerved off the road and struck them. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-efforts-nation-drugged-problem-stall.html Fri, 22 May 2026 22:40:01 EDT news698653983 The overall death rate of children and adolescents in the United States increased 6.6% between 2020 and 2023, researchers reported on May 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Many of the top causes of death in young people—including firearms, car accidents, and poisoning—lead to injuries that are treated in emergency departments. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-child-death-states.html Thu, 21 May 2026 17:00:03 EDT news698588281 Université de Montréal psychiatry professor Laurent Mottron has spent his career studying the cognitive processes of people with autism. Rather than viewing autism as a deficit, he sees it as a different way of processing sensory and social information. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-children-autism-worse-differently.html Wed, 20 May 2026 10:40:05 EDT news698491110 Scientists at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new cytokine-armored CAR-T cell therapy that helps the immune system better attack aggressive brain tumors in mice while reducing dangerous side effects that have long limited immune-based treatments for glioblastoma, one of the deadliest and most treatment-resistant brain cancers. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-cytokine-armored-car-cell-therapy.html Wed, 20 May 2026 10:00:06 EDT news698407861 CAR T-cell therapy is considered a milestone in personalized cancer treatment. In this approach, a patient's own immune cells are genetically modified to recognize and destroy tumor cells. While it has already shown impressive success in certain blood cancers, its effectiveness against solid tumors has so far been limited. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-key-protein-immune-cell-exhaustion.html Tue, 19 May 2026 16:40:02 EDT news698423521 Calcium is widely known for its role in maintaining strong bones and teeth, but it is also one of the body's most important cellular messengers. Calcium signals help regulate muscle contraction, neural function, immune cell activation and many other physiological processes. Because cells rely on calcium signals to decide when and how strongly to respond, the movement of calcium must be tightly controlled. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-newly-peptides-safer-immunotherapies.html Tue, 19 May 2026 15:40:05 EDT news698419681 Researchers at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that human hematopoietic stem cells are highly sensitive to oxygen, which can dictate how the cells grow and function. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-oxygen-significantly-stem-cell-behaviors.html Tue, 19 May 2026 12:20:03 EDT news698410082