What we eat plays a vital role in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. A well-balanced meal rich in essential micronutrients not only fuels the body but may also help protect against metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. There ...
Chronic pain, pain that persists or returns for more than three months, can affect people's emotional well-being and is often accompanied by difficulty concentrating or remembering things. While they can be effective for ...
For decades, people exercising have been told one simple rule: Never let your knees go over your toes. During lunges, squats and many other exercises, well-meaning coaches, trainers and physical therapists repeated this advice ...
Aug 24, 2026
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True to the motto "Faster, harder, louder," some 80,000 metal fans celebrate their music and bands at Wacken Open Air every year. Lydia Schneider and Tom Fritz from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences ...
Aug 24, 2026
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During typical aging and Alzheimer's disease progression, higher levels of a protein called tau are associated with more depressive symptoms. In JNeurosci, Teodora Markova from Brandeis University and colleagues explore the ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA), commonly used to treat diabetes and weight loss, may have additional mental health benefits, especially for people with bipolar disorder, new Griffith University research ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Portal messages have become a routine way for patients to communicate with their health care teams. But a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health suggests that how patients write those messages ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Inspired by the work of the RNA Therapeutics Institute at UMass Chan Medical School and the development of the COVID vaccine, Marcus Ruscetti, Ph.D., and Chaitanya Naimesh Parikh, Ph.D. '26, have developed an immunotherapy ...
Aug 25, 2026
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For an experienced reader, recognizing the words on this page feels effortless. Yet, evolutionarily speaking, your brain shouldn't be able to read. Reading has existed for too short a time to have shaped a dedicated center ...
Aug 25, 2026
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In a new study from Mass General Brigham, Boston University (BU), and the Concussion & CTE Foundation, researchers found evidence that at least one in four former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had chronic traumatic ...
Aug 25, 2026
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For decades, the answer to "how much sleep does an adult need?" has been simple: eight hours. The idea dates back to the mid-19th century, when the notion of eight hours of work, eight for recreation and eight for sleep first ...
Aug 25, 2026
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Poor sleep quality has been linked to cognitive decline, neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's disease in older adults. A new international study led by Concordia researchers and published in the journal Neurology shows that ...
Aug 25, 2026
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A nationwide quality improvement initiative led by researchers and clinicians from UC Davis Health, the American Academy of Pediatrics and partner organizations resulted in significant increases in screening and follow-up ...
Aug 25, 2026
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Canned tuna is a lunch box staple for many people. It's affordable, high in protein and doesn't need to be cooked, making it a nutritious and convenient option for busy days.
Aug 25, 2026
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Overuse of reliever inhalers is associated with higher risks of developing and dying from cardiovascular disease, including heart failure, heart attack and ischemic stroke, in patients with asthma and COPD, according to a ...
Aug 26, 2026
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It's an increasingly popular scan that measures calcium in the heart's arteries and helps predict the risk of future heart disease. But according to a new Northwestern Medicine study, the quick and inexpensive test—known ...
Aug 26, 2026
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Adults with at least one parent who reached age 100 lived longer and had substantially lower risks of cardiovascular disease and hypertension than people whose parents had shorter lifespans, according to a study published ...
Aug 26, 2026
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Andrea Califano began his career as a physicist. But that's not why he's now calling cancer a quantum disease. "We're really just following the data," says Califano, the Clyde '56 and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology ...
Aug 26, 2026
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Researchers investigating the role of progranulin in cancer progression have previously identified the signaling receptor EphA2 as critical in tumor establishment and a potential target to enhance the effectiveness of chemotherapy. ...
Aug 26, 2026
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Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may reduce the risk of dementia, particularly for certain groups of women—according to a study from the University of East Anglia and the University of Exeter.
Aug 26, 2026
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Sepsis, a life-threatening condition that stems from the body trying to fight off an infection, plagues more than 1.5 million patients a year in the U.S. alone, with one in three deaths recorded in hospitals attributed in ...
Aug 26, 2026
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Immunotherapies such as CAR T-cell therapy are used primarily to treat cancer. In the future, these patient-specific therapies, manufactured from patients' own immune cells, could also help cure autoimmune diseases. Six patients ...
Aug 27, 2026
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For more than two decades, researchers have identified hundreds of genes that increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Yet multiple fundamental questions have remained unanswered: Among them, how do mutations ...
Aug 27, 2026
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The number of people who need prescription glasses to correct their vision is increasing each year as nearsightedness, or myopia, becomes more common worldwide. Current projections suggest cases could reach 50% by 2050, affecting ...
Exercise does more than keep our minds and bodies healthy. It also protects us against the effects of aging. Scientists have developed self-contracting mini-muscle implants that grow their own blood supply and mimic the biological ...
The percentage of women in their 20s who have never been screened for cervical cancer has been increasing at a disturbing rate over the past 20 years—to the point that almost a third of women ages 21 to 29 have never been ...
Aug 27, 2026
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More than 3,600 bottles of a common thyroid medication are being recalled nationwide because lab testing showed the pills could be too strong.
Aug 27, 2026
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The annual societal cost of Parkinson's disease across Europe reached €22.8 billion in 2019, equivalent to €28.8 billion at 2025 prices, according to a new study published in Movement Disorders. As the number of people living ...
Aug 27, 2026
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Results from an early-stage clinical trial, published in Nature Communications, showed encouraging outcomes among patients with newly diagnosed cancer whose tumors had spread to distant organs. Most strikingly, one patient ...
Aug 28, 2026
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Total joint replacement is a proven treatment to relieve chronic knee pain, but concerns have been raised that particles from the device may migrate to the brain and cause memory problems. New research from Rush University ...
Aug 28, 2026
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For decades, a diagnosis of metastatic pancreatic cancer left patients and physicians facing the same harsh reality: limited options, difficult treatments and too little time. Now, a pill tested in a global clinical trial ...
Aug 28, 2026
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A Dutch drug addiction and mental health institute warned users on Friday about potentially lethal ecstasy pills shaped to look like the head of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Aug 28, 2026
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Oral anticoagulant therapy lowered the risk of adverse clinical events compared with no anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation at intermediate stroke risk, according to results from the SINGLE-AF trial presented ...
Aug 28, 2026
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New research by Malaghan's Connor Laboratory, published in PNAS, shows how directing the immune system toward conserved areas of the COVID virus and its many variants using RNA technology could be a significant step toward ...
Aug 28, 2026
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When the immune system encounters a virus, it produces antibodies designed to recognize and eliminate the invader. But in some people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, the immune response goes awry, ...
Aug 28, 2026
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A baby's brain is always listening, watching and learning—even when the world around it is chaotic and makes no sense.
Aug 29, 2026
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Atherosclerosis, the process underlying most cardiovascular diseases, begins long before the first symptoms appear. An international study shows that the disease can already be detected in apparently healthy young adults ...
Aug 29, 2026
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People with diabetes can now get an early warning when a dangerous complication starts to build in their bodies.
Aug 29, 2026
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Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found new evidence that BRAF, a protein commonly involved in cancer, plays a key role in developing, amplifying and maintaining chronic pain caused by ...
Aug 29, 2026
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When a child has symptoms that could be pneumonia, doctors often listen to the child's lungs with a stethoscope to help make a diagnosis. But a new national study led by physician-scientists at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's ...
Aug 29, 2026
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Researchers at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center have identified a previously underappreciated role for tiny structures inside cells called peroxisomes in protecting insulin and maintaining the health and maturity ...
Aug 29, 2026
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The investigational anti-interleukin-6 (IL-6) monoclonal antibody pacibekitug produced sustained reductions in inflammation-related biomarkers through six months in patients with chronic kidney disease and elevated inflammatory ...
Aug 29, 2026
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The first-ever European Society of Cardiology Guidelines on the management of cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease have been developed in collaboration with the European Renal Association. The new guidelines ...
Aug 30, 2026
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Statins are commonly prescribed to manage high cholesterol in people up to age 75 and are known to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Aug 30, 2026
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The secret to a long life may lie in the genomes of the longest-lived mammals for their size: bats. That idea captivated Juan Manuel Vazquez when he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, but at the time he ...
Aug 30, 2026
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Early initiation of statins after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes was associated with a lower risk of dementia, according to a study presented at ESC Congress 2026 and published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe.
Aug 30, 2026
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Many breast cancer survivors whose treatment caused them to develop problems with their heart function can safely stop their medication after their heart recovers, and most won't need to continue treatment long term, according ...
Aug 30, 2026
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Men with prostate cancer have a high risk of heart disease, especially when treated with hormone therapy. A large international, first-of-its-kind study led by Hamilton researchers found that routine referrals to an internist ...
Aug 30, 2026
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More walkable neighborhoods in New York City were associated with a lower risk of developing postpartum type 2 diabetes among women who had gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), according to a new study from Columbia University ...
Aug 30, 2026
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