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Medical Xpress / Lab-grown heart patch boosts pumping power in severe heart failure trial

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) have made a significant breakthrough in the treatment of severe heart failure: For the first time, a clinical ...

May 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Scientists validate a link between autoimmunity and long COVID

A Mount Sinai-led research team has demonstrated that autoimmunity, in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissues, is responsible for the often-debilitating and confounding symptoms of long COVID in a subset of ...

May 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Blood biomarkers reveal subtle midlife cognitive decline tied to Alzheimer's risk

For the first time, researchers found blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease that correlated with minor cognitive differences in midlife adults who did not have dementia. The study, led by UC San Francisco, also found that ...

May 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / AI suggests simple food swaps to make meals healthier and cheaper

An artificial intelligence framework that suggests just one to three ingredient swaps can make meals meaningfully more nutritious and less expensive, according to a new study published in PLOS Digital Health by Trevor Chan ...

May 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Young adults are more perfectionistic than ever before, study finds

College students feel more pressure to be perfect than they did a generation ago, finds research published in Psychological Bulletin. That increase in perfectionism may be tied to social and economic factors such as rising ...

May 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Depression may not only be a consequence, but also a cause of rheumatoid arthritis

According to researchers at Semmelweis University, not only inflammation, but also sleep disorders, depression, obesity, and smoking may sustain persistent rheumatic symptoms. In their publications in the journals Nature ...

May 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Brain maps reveal first lifetime white matter growth charts from birth to 100

In a new study published recently in the journal Nature, researchers at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Health have created the first growth charts for white matter in the brain over a human lifetime. The work brings ...

May 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Psychiatric 'gold standard' falters as repeat interviews yield different diagnoses

Diagnostic interviews are widely used by mental health professionals to identify conditions such as anxiety, bipolar disorder and depression in adults, but new research led by McMaster University shows that the long considered ...

May 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Cannabis use does not lower testosterone, study concludes

The effects of cannabis on the hormonal system and male fertility remain controversial within the scientific community. A study conducted by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with the Swiss Center for Applied ...

May 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Gut microbe found to worsen sepsis by triggering hyperinflammatory immune responses

Why do some people recover easily from bacterial infections while others rapidly deteriorate into life-threatening sepsis? According to a new study published in Nature Communications, the answer may lie not only in the invading ...

May 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / New brain scan detects Alzheimer's tau earlier than current standard

A new brain imaging test can detect a key hallmark of Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear and earlier than the method currently used in clinical practice in the United States and Europe, report University of Pittsburgh ...

May 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Rising heat could triple heart disease burden in U.S. by 2050

A new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals and the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center predicts rising temperatures driven by climate change will dramatically increase heat-related ...

May 28, 2026