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Female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone fluctuate monthly across the menstrual cycle, affecting moods and energy levels. New research from the University of Oregon finds that those fluctuations don't change a woman's ...

An international, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III study—the largest of its kind for mpox—found that tecovirimat did not improve clinical outcomes for adults with clade II mpox compared with placebo, ...

As children enter adolescence, peers become a dominant force in their lives. With adult supervision waning, teens look to agemates for guidance on how to act, think, and fit in. But who matters most—friends or the popular ...

Poverty can affect babies' motor development as early as six months of age. This is the conclusion of the first Brazilian study to examine the quantity and quality of motor development month by month and its relationship ...

A well-designed 10-minute online exercise can spark small reductions in depression. That's the key finding of my team's paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour.

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are computational models that can learn to identify patterns in data, make accurate predictions or generate content (e.g., texts, images, videos or sound recordings). These models can ...

Twenty years. That's how long Robert Oman has been cancer-free, thanks to a clinical trial offered at the University of Rochester's Wilmot Cancer Institute. And he isn't alone: 70% of patients in the trial who had advanced-stage ...

Lasers cut precisely and without contact—ideal for surgery. The problem is that in hard tissues such as bone, they are too slow and do not cut deep enough. Researchers at the University of Basel have now demonstrated a ...

A major new study, led by Queen Mary University of London has been published in The Lancet Public Health. It found that out of the five million surgical procedures performed each year by the NHS, around 300,000 are carried ...

Research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) may finally explain why we still reach for the cookie jar, even when we're full. A new study reveals that the human brain continues to respond to tempting food cues even after ...

Long-acting antiviral medications are transforming HIV prevention and care, requiring only minimalistic dosing. But as the use of lenacapavir expands, scientists are probing a critical question: If the virus evolves resistance, ...

Ketamine is a powerful anesthetic used for surgery and acute pain management. But in recent years, it has also gained a reputation as a potential treatment for certain mental health conditions like stress and anxiety. In ...