https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. "Every time you drink heavily, even if you do so infrequently, it can affect your role as a parent," says doctoral research fellow Barbara Carvalho. She led a comprehensive systematic review conducted by researchers at the University of Agder, in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-rethink-safe-parental-alcohol-experts.html Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:40:01 EDT news699860185 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. 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A Flinders University study, published in npj Digital Medicine, has found that AI medical scribes already reduce some administrative work that takes time away from patients, but these devices have the capacity to do more when fitted with visual recording apparatus. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-ai-scribes-eyes-clinic.html Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:20:03 EDT news693071701 Vitamin C is one of the most iconic nutrients in popular health culture, often credited with preventing colds, boosting immunity and even fighting serious diseases. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-vitamin-ward-colds-blood-pressure.html Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:40:01 EDT news692613382 A new study in the lab of Jason Stein, Ph.D., modeled brain development in a dish to identify cells and genes that influence infant brain growth, a trait associated with autism. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-scientists-mini-brains-uncover-cells.html Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:48:37 EST news685723682 After being treated with an electronic eye implant paired with augmented-reality glasses, people with sight loss have recovered reading vision, reports a trial involving a UCL (University College London) and Moorfields Eye Hospital clinical researcher. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-electronic-eye-implant-ar-glasses.html Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:00:03 EDT news679926906 Penn researchers have developed an AI-powered device that turns ordinary glasses into a smart, energy-efficient health monitor by watching you blink. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-ai-eyelid-glasses-track-health.html Tue, 30 Sep 2025 08:44:05 EDT news678440641 Patients have more confidence in autonomous robotic ultrasound systems when an avatar guides them through the process. This is reported in a new study by Prof. Nassir Navab from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The virtual agent explains what it is doing, answers questions and can speak any language. 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A recent study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign documents a new way to select viable sperm and prolong their viability in the laboratory, reducing one source of variability during the process. The work is published in the journal Scientific Reports. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-ivf-method-mimics-fallopian-tube.html Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:28:03 EDT news662056081 Fingernail-sized vibrating gadgets, similar to the tiny devices that make your cellphone buzz, could help people with Parkinson's disease navigate the world with more confidence and ease. 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Their frugally designed system was evaluated in a mouse model and was recently reported in Scientific Reports. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-eye-effective-tool-visualize-cancer.html Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:02:10 EST news655984923 On 26 November, an experiment in a sounding rocket was launched at Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden, by a research group at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) at Karolinska Institutet. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-unique-cells-space.html Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:02:47 EST news652446164 A person can begin to lose their eyesight at any age, and recognizing the signs and symptoms of vision loss is important to their eye health. An ophthalmologist at Baylor College of Medicine says noticing these signs is especially significant in young children because if certain eye problems are not addressed, it may impact their schoolwork or even result in permanent vision loss. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-child-glasses.html Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:26:04 EDT news642950761 So, you got your eyesight tested and found out you need your first pair of glasses. Or you found out you need a stronger pair than the ones you have. You put them on and everything looks crystal clear. But after a few weeks things look blurrier without them than they did before your eye test. 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We now have promising results with a material that enhances the quality of our experiments. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-10-special-polymer-microfluidic-chips-animal.html Wed, 25 Oct 2023 12:56:04 EDT news617457361 Dying from viral infection due to organ failure and blood loss is still little understood. Among other things, Huaqi Tang developed an organ-on-a-chip to figure it out. "These technologies can offer unprecedented opportunities to fight the viruses that threaten our society," said Tang. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-09-methods-failure-viruses.html Mon, 18 Sep 2023 10:31:21 EDT news614251878 A group from Nagoya University has identified the optimal dimensions of glass filters for circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), demonstrating that they could detect cells from lung cancer patients. Using a unique method, the group visualized the cells on glass filters and captured them. Their findings will enable more efficient culture of tumor cells to identify patients with cancer. The study was published in the journal Scientific Reports. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-glass-filters-tumor-cells-blood.html Tue, 02 May 2023 10:25:30 EDT news602241928 Two years ago, Paul's teacher noticed that the 10-year-old boy could no longer see anything on the board at the front of the class. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-special-glasses-surging-myopia-children.html Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:36:02 EDT news600964556 A new World Health Organization (WHO) report reveals high levels of resistance in bacteria, causing life-threatening bloodstream infections, as well as increasing resistance to treatment in several bacteria causing common infections in the community based on data reported by 87 countries in 2020. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-superbugs-antibiotic-resistance.html Fri, 09 Dec 2022 13:20:03 EST news589814401 The mental workload of intensive care unit nurses can successfully be evaluated using eye-movement tracking glasses. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-05-eye-movement-tracking-glasses-mental-stress.html Tue, 31 May 2022 15:35:47 EDT news573230144 Being able to see without eyes sounds like a miracle, but in the not-too-distant future, a new brain chip could allow the blind and visually impaired to perceive images again. Ph.D. student Adedayo Omisakin worked on wireless communication from and to this innovative implant. He defended his research at the department of Electrical Engineering on Friday April 22nd. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-05-people-wireless-implant.html Thu, 05 May 2022 09:24:41 EDT news570961479 Bilal Haider is studying how multiple areas of the brain work together for visual perception. This could help researchers understand if neural activity "traffic jams" underlie all kinds of visual impairments: from running a red light when visual attention is elsewhere, to shedding light on the autism-affected brain. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-window-long-term-brain.html Fri, 11 Mar 2022 11:34:12 EST news566220846 A new analysis of national kidney transplant and organ discard data concludes that too many deceased donor organs with acute kidney injury (AKI) may be needlessly going to waste because of a change in the way kidneys are evaluated. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-01-successful-transplants-kidneys-donors.html Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:31:50 EST news561295902