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Medical Xpress / Simultaneous kidney and stem cell transplants may enable patients to ditch lifelong immunosuppressants

While immunosuppressive medications are critical to preventing rejection of transplant organs, they also come with plenty of downsides. They can cause harsh side effects, like headaches and tremors, and increase the risk ...

Jul 7, 2025 in Immunology
Medical Xpress / Three years in, research shows regional and personal differences in use of 988 lifeline

Who is most likely to use 988, the national suicide and crisis lifeline launched on July 16, 2022?

Jul 7, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Stem cell grafts restore myelin in mouse model of progressive multiple sclerosis

A study led by Cambridge researchers has shed light on how neural stem cell grafts could help restore myelin in the central nervous system. The findings suggest that neural stem cell‐based therapies hold promise as a potential ...

Jul 7, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Surgical microscope uses 48 tiny cameras to offer precise 3D imaging

For over a century, surgeons performing delicate procedures have relied on stereoscopic microscopes to gain a sense of depth. These tools mimic human vision by presenting slightly different images to each eye, allowing the ...

Jul 7, 2025 in Surgery
Medical Xpress / Parkinson's disease: How the affected side shapes the disease's course

Parkinson's disease affects approximately 10 million people worldwide. It typically begins asymmetrically, initially impacting only one side of the body. Although it first manifests through motor symptoms—such as tremors, ...

Jul 7, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Cancer cells form protective microenvironment against CDK4/6 inhibitors, study shows

Targeted cancer drugs known as CDK4/6 inhibitors have improved outcomes for patients with advanced or metastatic HR+/HER2- breast cancer, but many patients still eventually relapse and become resistant to therapy. New research ...

Jul 7, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / New study maps four key pathways to Alzheimer's disease

UCLA Health researchers have identified four distinct pathways that lead to Alzheimer's disease by analyzing electronic health records, offering new insights into how the condition develops over time rather than from isolated ...

Jul 7, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / A single olfactory neuron triggers two behaviors in fruit flies

The same neuron can tell fruit flies to walk toward the smell of rotting fruit and speed up, according to new research from Yale scientists. Neurobiologists once believed that each neuron held a single purpose. However, in ...

Jul 7, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Stem cell-derived liver organoids show long-term growth with bile acid support

Adding bile acids as farnesoid X receptor agonists to the culture medium supported the growth and development of unique stem cell-derived hepatic organoids, report researchers from Japan. These three-dimensional liver organoids ...

Jul 7, 2025 in Gastroenterology
Medical Xpress / Student designs prostate screening device to replace traditional examination method

A Loughborough University student has developed a new medical device that could transform how prostate health is assessed and monitored.

Jul 7, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Adaptive spine board could transform ER transport

In combat zones and emergency rescues, rapid evacuation and treatment can mean the difference between life and death. But prolonged immobilization during transport poses another life-threatening risk: pressure injuries.

Jul 7, 2025 in Biomedical technology
Medical Xpress / Circadian disruption by night light linked to multiple cardiovascular outcomes

Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute researchers, along with colleagues in the UK and U.S., have linked brighter night-time light exposure to elevated risks of five major cardiovascular diseases.

Jul 6, 2025 in Health