Articles by Justin Jackson
Medical Xpress / Children of parents with mental disorders may face higher risk of early death
Research led by the Karolinska Institutet reports that offspring of parents with mental disorders face increased mortality, with the highest risks for unnatural deaths and when both parents had diagnoses.
Medical Xpress / The AI doctor is not ready to see you now: Stress tests reveal flaws
Robust performance under uncertainty, valid reasoning grounded in evidence, and alignment with real clinical need are prerequisites for trust in any health care setting.
Medical Xpress / Colon cancer considered cured after six years when relapse risk falls below 0.5%
IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino with Mayo Clinic and multiple international cancer research centers have delivered a pooled analysis indicating that colon cancer recurrence risk drops below 0.5% by year six after surgery, ...
Medical Xpress / Five-patient lupus CAR T-cell feasibility test claims positive short-term results
Researchers at the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Science and Technology of China claim that an in vivo CD8 T-cell-targeted lipid nanoparticle carrying CD19 CAR mRNA (HN2301) generated transient CAR T cells ...
Medical Xpress / Social threat perceptions in youth linked to altered brain connectivity
Researchers at UCL Institute of Education, King's College London, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and UCLA report that perceived social threats in early adolescence are associated with altered connectivity in default ...
Medical Xpress / Health care workers turn to AI to reduce electronic paperwork burnout
A Yale School of Medicine-led research group, working with six US health systems, reports an association between a single ambient AI scribe platform and lower short-term burnout among ambulatory clinicians.
Medical Xpress / Stabilization of neuropathy scores seen after gene editing therapy for rare nerve disease
University College London's National Amyloidosis Center leads a multinational team reporting that a single infusion of an in vivo gene-editing therapy (nexiguran ziclumeran) produced rapid, deep, and durable reductions in ...
Medical Xpress / Most aspirin use in middle-aged adults may be unnecessary under new assessment
Rochester General Hospital, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and Aga Khan University report that applying newer cardiovascular risk equations could sharply reduce the number of middle-aged adults considered ...
Medical Xpress / Mitochondrial building block balance linked to age-related inflammation
Research led by the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging in Cologne reports that misincorporation of ribonucleotides into mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) initiates an inflammatory cascade.
Medical Xpress / Rising early-onset cancer diagnoses in the US appear to be driven by increased detection, not disease
Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Dell Medical School researchers report that rising rates of early-onset cancer in the United States may reflect more diagnoses rather than more disease.
Medical Xpress / Mucoactive bronchiectasis treatments show no benefit in preventing lung flare-ups
Queen's University Belfast-led research reports on a multicenter trial finding no significant reduction in pulmonary exacerbations with hypertonic saline or carbocisteine over 52 weeks among adults with non–cystic fibrosis ...
Medical Xpress / Residential sulfur dioxide exposure linked to higher odds of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis onset
Université de Sherbrooke and Canadian collaborators report an association between long-term residential sulfur dioxide exposure and higher odds of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) onset.
Medical Xpress / Long-term at-home adaptive deep brain stimulation found to be effective in Parkinson's disease
The Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, together with multiple academic medical centers and one industry partner (Medtronic) across the US, Canada, Europe, and Jordan, ...
Medical Xpress / Permethrin-treated baby wraps cut malaria cases in Ugandan children
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with Ugandan and international collaborators, report that permethrin-treated baby wraps reduced clinical malaria cases in young children compared with sham-treated ...
Medical Xpress / Mediterranean-style diets may still lower cardiovascular risk independent of lean beef intake
National Cattlemen's Beef Association funded research finds that Mediterranean-style eating with lean beef produces less trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) compared with a typical American diet that included the same amount of ...
