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Medical Xpress / Gut 'primes' pathogenic T cells responsible for neuroinflammation in multiple sclerosis, study finds
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating neurological disorder caused by malfunctioning immune responses that target the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system (CNS). What makes the body turn against itself? ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds M-CHAT autism screening misses 38% of high-risk toddlers
M-CHAT does not catch all children with autism in the neonatal high-risk group, shows a study from Karolinska Institutet published in JAMA Network Open. The researchers see a need to supplement the test with other assessment ...
Medical Xpress / Can a new heart health metric identify fracture risk in postmenopausal women? Study finds link
Postmenopausal women face a high risk of bone fractures. Due to declines in estrogen levels, which can lead to an increased risk of osteoporosis, even a low-impact fall can result in a serious hip, back, or wrist injury. ...
Medical Xpress / Global study estimates over 250,000 meningitis deaths in 2023, with young children bearing a heavy toll
In 2023, 259,000 people died from meningitis and 2.5 million people were infected with the disease globally, suggests a study published in The Lancet Neurology. Although death and infection rates have declined significantly ...
Medical Xpress / Pain neurons protect nerve health and offer new therapeutic targets
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that helps pain sensing nerve cells stay healthy and respond to injury. The findings, published in Nature Communications, may improve understanding ...
Medical Xpress / TENS plus physical therapy eases fibromyalgia pain and fatigue, study finds
Adding TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) to outpatient physical therapy reduced movement-based pain and fatigue in patients with fibromyalgia, and the effects lasted for at least six months, according to ...
Medical Xpress / BMI classification system wrongly identifies some people as having overweight or obesity, says study
Research from Italy to be presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye, 12–15 May) and published in the journal Nutrients shows that when the gold standard technique of dual-energy X-ray ...
Medical Xpress / AI-powered 'lab-on-a-chip' platform may enable same-day treatment decisions for pediatric patients
Scientists at the University of Utah (the U) have developed a new "lab-on-a-chip" device that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly predict cancer cell sensitivity to targeted therapies for children with T-cell acute lymphoblastic ...
Medical Xpress / Why COVID and flu hit older lungs harder: Aging tissue may bring on immune dysregulation
Older adults are much more likely to become seriously ill from flu or COVID because aging lung cells can drive excessive immune responses, according to a new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco. The findings enhance ...
Medical Xpress / Strong patient diversity in biobanks reveals new genetic links to disease risk and treatment response
A new study by UCLA Health published in Cell presents a major advancement in the future of personalized medicine by pinpointing new connections between people's genes, disease risk and medicine response by using a clinically ...
Medical Xpress / Hidden 'resilience window' found in human brain one hour after stress
Psychological resilience is often misunderstood as simple "toughness" or an insensitivity to stress. However, true resilience is the brain's capacity to adapt and recover after a stressful event. Researchers from the Kochi ...
Medical Xpress / AI learns to make sense of childhood cancer survivors' health care needs
Artificial intelligence (AI) could help physicians determine if survivors of childhood cancer need extra support—and the more information included in AI prompting, the better its performance. This finding, published in Communications ...
