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Medical Xpress / HIV injections work better than tablets for young people, clinical trial finds
Young people living with HIV manage their condition better when their antiretroviral therapy is given by injections every eight weeks rather than daily tablets, according to results of a trial in Africa led by UCL (University ...
Medical Xpress / The aging brain is not declining. It's adapting, say researchers
The aging brain is often viewed through a lens of cognitive decline, with older adults seen as compensating for their fading memory. New research in Perspectives on Psychological Science challenges that view. Drawing evidence ...
Medical Xpress / Standing heart rates reveal overlap between long COVID and POTS
Dizziness, fatigue, brain fog and a racing heart. They're commonly associated with long COVID, but new Adelaide University research suggests that for some people, these symptoms may also be indications of postural orthostatic ...
Medical Xpress / Tumor profiling reveals enzyme as a candidate target in aggressive brain cancer
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators have identified candidate treatment targets and potential prognostic markers for high-grade glioma, an aggressive brain cancer, in children, adolescents ...
Medical Xpress / Trial suggests less frequent colonoscopies may safely follow removal of high-risk polyps
Every year, around 1.9 million people worldwide are diagnosed with bowel cancer. To prevent the disease, many countries have introduced screening programs that enable more polyps to be detected and removed before cancer develops.
Medical Xpress / Review finds inconsistent 'neurodivergence' language may complicate research and patient care
Researchers are warning that inconsistent use of the terms "neurodiversity" and "neurodivergence" in mental health research could obscure important differences between diagnoses and make findings harder to interpret. They ...
Medical Xpress / Women experience less pain during IUD insertion using a new method
A simple method involving local anesthesia in the uterus can reduce pain during IUD insertion, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in the journal JAMA. The method also increased the proportion of ...
Medical Xpress / Early-adult BMI may lower postmenopausal breast cancer risk through breast density
Women with a higher body mass index (BMI) in early adulthood may have a lower risk of developing breast cancer after menopause because of lasting changes in the structure of their breast tissue, according to researchers at ...
Dialog / Seeing metastasis before it happens: Tumor-derived extracellular vesicles for premetastatic niche imaging
Cancer is most dangerous not when it starts but when it spreads. Metastasis—the process by which cancer cells travel to and colonize distant organs—is responsible for the vast majority of cancer deaths. The problem is that ...
Medical Xpress / Osteoporosis fractures fall by 94% in small first-in-human stem cell trial
Somewhere in the world, a woman over 50 will have fractured a bone by the time you finish reading this sentence due to osteoporosis, a silent bone disease that can weaken the structural integrity of the skeletal system and ...
Medical Xpress / Stable frontal signals, flexible hippocampal ones: How the brain preserves context as goals change
While humans are completing a task, they can temporarily store information in their minds while also manipulating and adapting it based on changing circumstances. To support this capability, known as working memory, the brain ...
Medical Xpress / Augmented eye clinic shows why AI-native systems work where standalone algorithms don't
AI in eye care is set to take a new leap with an AI-native rather than assisted approach. Researchers have developed a new tool that moves beyond the conventional model of deploying AI as isolated, standalone tools for individual ...
