Oncology & Cancer

Cancer mortality continuing to decline, says report

Overall cancer mortality rates declined from 2001 through 2022, while cancer incidence rates decreased from 2001 through 2013 and stabilized through 2021, according to the 2024 Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Smartphone eye photos may help detect anemia in children

Anemia, a condition marked by low levels of hemoglobin in the blood, affects nearly 2 billion people worldwide. Among them, school-age children in low- and middle-income countries are particularly vulnerable. Left untreated, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Advancing understanding of lucid dreaming in humans

Lucid dreaming is a surreal phenomenon in which people are consciously aware that they are in a dream. Çağatay Demirel, from Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Medical Center, and colleagues shed ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

CDC shuts down key labs for hepatitis and STI testing after layoffs

Key labs at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have shut down amid recent layoffs, raising concerns about tracking and controlling serious infections like viral hepatitis and antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea.

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