https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A novel study among Indigenous communities in Canada utilizing sharing circles as the primary method of qualitative data collection shows that heart health is shaped by emotional, spiritual, social, and systemic factors, with trauma strongly influencing how care is accessed and trusted. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-visual-storytelling-circles-reveal-community.html Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:01 EDT news700296875 New research from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) has found that most Australians living with dementia are unlikely to qualify for voluntary assisted dying (VAD) under current laws. Lead author Prof. Kerstin Braun explored how Australian VAD laws would need to change if states and territories chose to extend access to people living with dementia. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-australians-dementia-excluded-voluntary-dying.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:20:04 EDT news700297639 California's ranks of uninsured residents could nearly double in the next four years—to nearly 4.6 million people—because of deep federal cuts to Medicaid and dramatic changes in federal and state policy, according to a new report from the UC Berkeley Labor Center. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-uninsured-californians.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:40:03 EDT news700327861 Daniel Daneshvar, MD, Ph.D., director of the HealthSpan Lab and Chief of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Mass General Brigham, and Charlotte Luster, of the HealthSpan Lab, are the senior and lead authors of a paper published in Neuroepidemiology, "Brain Cancer Mortality following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): A TBI Model Systems Study." https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-people-traumatic-brain-injury-die.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:20:01 EDT news700315158 Every day, across thousands of American hospitals, artificial intelligence quietly shapes decisions that determine patient outcomes. An algorithm flags a patient as high risk for sepsis; a risk score informs whether a woman receives additional cancer screening; a deterioration model triggers an alert that sends a care team to a bedside. These tools are embedded in the workflows of nearly two-thirds of U.S. hospitals, integrated into the electronic health record systems clinicians rely on daily. But many have never been reviewed by the FDA. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-ai-tools-patient-regulatory-oversight.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:00:03 EDT news700327261 Reducing the damage sustained by the heart during a myocardial infarction remains one of the major challenges in cardiology, even when the blocked coronary artery is reopened in a timely manner. Part of the myocardial injury continues to be difficult to prevent despite advances in reperfusion therapies. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-iv-atorvastatin-myocardial-infarction-pre.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:40:05 EDT news700296770 The powerful role of exercise in maintaining skeletal muscle could be the key to improving health and resilience in older age, according to new research from Monash University. The new research, published on the bioRxiv preprint server, used preclinical models to uncover the key role a protein found in skeletal muscle, NOX4, plays in this process. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-secret-healthy-aging-skeletal-muscle.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:20:03 EDT news700326134 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved bemotrizinol (BEMT) for use in over-the-counter sunscreen products. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-fda-sunscreen-ingredient-decades.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:00:03 EDT news700315169 If you regularly drink soda or other sugary beverages, a new study may give you a reason to cut back. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-sugary-beverages-liver-cancer.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:40:02 EDT news700326063 Hip dips are having a moment. The perfectly normal indentations that sit below your hips on the outer thigh have become the latest body feature to be scrutinized, fixed and agonized over on social media. But what are they? Can you actually get rid of them? And should you even try? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-hip-dips.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:20:02 EDT news700306705 Jules Netherland traveled from her home in the Bronx to the New York state Capitol in Albany several times in the past few years, hoping to persuade the legislature to pass a medical aid-in-dying bill, allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives with a lethal prescription. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-september-americans-states-legal-aid.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:00:04 EDT news700325161 For adults with obesity without diabetes, once-weekly survodutide, an investigational glucagon receptor-glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor dual agonist, is associated with greater reductions in body weight than placebo, according to a study published online June 7 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association, held from June 5 to 8 in New Orleans. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-weekly-survodutide-linked-body-weight.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:40:04 EDT news700324922 Patients hospitalized with a common form of heart failure could avoid later hospital stays—and dramatically lower health care costs—if they receive the full combination of four medications currently recommended in national treatment guidelines, according to research led by UCLA Health and published in JAMA Cardiology. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-drug-guidelines-heart-failure-hospitalizations.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:20:02 EDT news700324501 People who follow a short-term low-calorie diet may have reduced markers of inflammation associated with gum disease. A study by King's College London, published in the Journal of Clinical Periodontology, highlights how lifestyle modifications could be important alongside plaque control in managing gum disease. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-fasting-mimicking-diet-gum-disease.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:10:05 EDT news700242182 How diseases develop and how the body ages can differ between females and males, but the biological reasons for these differences are not fully understood. Researchers are studying the role of sex chromosomes to better understand what may be driving these differences. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-hidden-dna-genome-protector-health.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:40:03 EDT news700329901 Women who engage in light physical activity and lessen their sedentary time may significantly reduce the risk of key health problems during pregnancy, according to a new University of Iowa-led study. The paper, "Optimal 24-hour movement behaviour compositions across trimesters and risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: the Pregnancy 24/7 cohort study," is published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-pregnant-women-key-health.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:30:01 EDT news700241222 An unexpected lab observation has led a team of scientists to discover how diet can influence survival in animal models of glioma, one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of brain cancer. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital and collaborating institutions report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences how limiting a single nutrient, the amino acid methionine, in the diet destabilized DNA organization and led to cancer cell death and increased animal survival. These findings open new possibilities for treating one of the most challenging forms of brain cancer. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-diet-remodels-chromatin-survival-glioma.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:20:08 EDT news700329661 Among the top artificial intelligence companies, the current race is ultimately to build better, faster and more accurate algorithms. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become commonplace in every sector, including health care, and an increasing number of primary care physicians are turning to AI for everything from diagnoses to patient note transcriptions. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-transparency-vital-ai-usage-health.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:20:01 EDT news700324381 Some alkaline mineral and medicinal waters may weaken the enteric coating of medications within just a few minutes, potentially reducing their effectiveness, according to a new study by Semmelweis University. The study, published in Pharmaceutics, found that if the active ingredient is released too early in the stomach rather than in the intestinal tract, it may reduce—and in extreme cases, even eliminate—the effectiveness of certain anti-reflux, gastroprotective, psychiatric or anti-inflammatory pain-relief medications. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-liquid-medication.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:00:05 EDT news700329001 The COVID-19 pandemic pushed some households in India into difficult and often unsustainable coping strategies, forcing tradeoffs between immediate survival and long-term stability, according to new research by Lancaster University and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-meals-assets-covid-coping-strategies.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:00:01 EDT news700324321 Xabi Martinez-Mendia, a researcher at the EHU-University of the Basque Country, has analyzed how adolescent psychotropic drug consumption is linked to gender inequality and economic factors in 32 European countries. Published in the European Journal of Public Health, the results indicate that overall consumption of psychotropic drugs is on the rise in countries with greater gender and economic parity, whereas in countries with lower parity, these drugs are consumed proportionally more by girls, and the gender gap is wider. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-girls-biggest-consumers-anxiolytic-sedative.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:40:03 EDT news700306725 The race to complete the human pangenome—which comprises all genetic information across the human species—has been underway since 2022, when the first complete reference human genome sequence was released by the international Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium. Now, a team led by scientists at the Research Organization of Information and Systems has made a significant contribution to a more complete understanding of human genetics with 20 near-complete variant groups located in disease- and immune-related regions from 10 Japanese men. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-pangenome-graph-variant-groups-japanese.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:40:01 EDT news700326962 A clinical trial led by researchers from Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) and the Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC) compared the effectiveness of abatacept and hydroxychloroquine in preventing the development of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with palindromic rheumatism, an autoimmune disease that progresses to arthritis in approximately half of all patients. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-drug-rheumatoid-arthritis-clinical-trial.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:20:04 EDT news700323722 The high cost of fresh fruits and vegetables and the need to restock them frequently can be barriers to healthy eating for low-income families. New research shows that online grocery shopping, combined with incentive programs, can help. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-online-grocery-fresh-york-snap.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:20:01 EDT news700322342 A new review published in Calcified Tissue International highlights major advances in understanding and preventing bone loss in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), showing that modern antirheumatic therapies can significantly reduce local and generalized bone loss in RA. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-modern-rheumatoid-arthritis-treatments-bone.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:10:06 EDT news700328882 Menopause is associated with an array of sexual and urinary symptoms, although not all women experience the same symptoms or severity. A new study suggests that many of these signs and symptoms are worse for women who undergo surgical menopause instead of natural menopause. Results of the study are published today in Menopause. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-surgical-menopause-severe-genitourinary-syndrome.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:00:07 EDT news700318549 Researchers at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, together with Newcastle University's Translational and Clinical Research Institute and the Department of Immunology at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, have identified an important driver of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This discovery reshapes understanding of IBD and opens the way to targeted approaches to diagnosis and treatment in a subset of patients. The findings suggest that inflammatory bowel disease is not a single condition, but a group of biologically distinct diseases driven by different underlying mechanisms. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-decades-puzzle-scientists-uncover-inflammatory.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:00:03 EDT news700323061 Difficulty conceiving a pregnancy may be associated with small differences in children's learning and behavior, according to a new study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, titled "Associations of subfecundity and infertility treatment with child neurodevelopment in ECHO." https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-difficulty-small-neurodevelopmental-differences-children.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:40:01 EDT news700323541 Picky eating is a challenge most parents are familiar with, but for parents of autistic children, severe selective eating can lead to nutritional deficiencies and place tremendous stress on the family. However, a new study from Constructor University Ph.D. candidate Sofya Bajaa has demonstrated a transformative new approach to treating severe selective eating in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Bajaa's newly developed Schmetterling Nutritional Behavior Intervention (NBI) program achieved dramatic improvements in dietary variety and nutritional intake over just 10 weeks. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-ten-week-therapy-empowers-parents.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:20:08 EDT news700318348 One of the most detailed maps to date of meningioma—the most common brain tumor in adults—reveals how the tumor's surrounding environment helps drive disease behavior and patient outcomes, according to new research from Mayo Clinic. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-brain-tumor-immune-cell-states.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:20:03 EDT news700322821