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Medical Xpress / Violent reinjury in firearm-injured children linked to neighborhood factors

Children in areas with the lowest Child Opportunity Index—which reflects factors like education, social and economic resources—were over twice as likely to suffer another violent injury within a year after an initial ...

Apr 3, 2025 in Pediatrics
Medical Xpress / Neuroscientific model of near-death experiences finds consistent physiological pattern

A multidisciplinary team led by the University of Liège has proposed a unified neuroscientific model explaining the mechanisms behind near-death experiences (NDEs), drawing on converging empirical findings across neurobiology, ...

Apr 2, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Study finds nearly five-fold increase in hospitalizations for common cause of stroke

Cervical artery dissection is a tear in an artery in the neck that provides blood flow to the brain. Such a tear can result in blood clots that cause stroke. A new study has found almost a five-fold increase in the number ...

Apr 2, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Non-invasive blood glucose monitor uses pre-trained model to reduce calibration period from weeks to days

A team of medical researchers and engineers at RSP Systems, in Denmark, working with a pair of colleagues from the Institute for Diabetes Technology, and another colleague with the University of Munich, both in Germany, has ...

Apr 2, 2025 in Diabetes
Medical Xpress / Could birth control raise depression risk in new mothers?

Copenhagen University Hospital–Rigshospitalet and collaborating Danish universities have conducted statistical research suggesting that starting hormonal contraceptive (HC) use postpartum is associated with a 49% higher ...

Apr 2, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Even the richest Americans face shorter lifespans than their European counterparts, study finds

Comparing wealth and survival rates in the U.S. with those in Europe, researchers found that over a 10-year period, Americans across all wealth levels were more likely to die than their European counterparts.

Apr 2, 2025 in Health
Medical Xpress / World's smallest light-activated pacemaker can be inserted with a syringe, then dissolves after it's no longer needed

Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe—and be noninvasively injected into the body.

Apr 2, 2025 in Cardiology
Medical Xpress / Medicinal cannabis linked to long-term benefits in health-related quality of life

Patients prescribed medicinal cannabis in Australia maintained improvements in overall health-related quality of life (HRQL), fatigue, and sleep disturbance across a one-year period, according to a study published in the ...

Apr 2, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Alcohol's lasting impact: Study reveals how heavy drinking damages cognition

For the first time, researchers demonstrate in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making.

Apr 2, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / 'Smart,' ultrasound-activated immune cells may soon provide long-lasting tumor destruction

Imagine a super-charged immune cell that can launch a focused attack on stubborn solid tumors—a smart fighter that destroys cancer cells for days without tiring. USC biomedical engineers have made this concept a reality, ...

Apr 2, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk

An unusual public health policy in Wales may have produced the strongest evidence yet that a vaccine can reduce the risk of dementia. In a new study led by Stanford Medicine, researchers analyzing the health records of Welsh ...

Medical Xpress / How the brain remembers what gave you food poisoning

Princeton neuroscientists have pinpointed the exact "memory hub" in the brain responsible for powerful food aversions in mice.

Apr 2, 2025 in Neuroscience