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Medical Xpress / How well do COVID antivirals actually work? Not as well as we thought
If you're 70 or older, or 50 or older with underlying health conditions, and have tested positive for COVID, you might have been offered free or subsidized antivirals.
Medical Xpress / Study finds that obesity in adolescence may be more reversible than previously thought
Obesity doesn't look the same at age 15 as it does at age 45, and Duke University School of Medicine researchers are learning why. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation showed teenagers retain a degree ...
Medical Xpress / Weight loss drugs may offer a new avenue for bipolar disorder research
Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA), commonly used to treat diabetes and weight loss, may have additional mental health benefits, especially for people with bipolar disorder, new Griffith University research ...
Medical Xpress / Clinical trial to treat rectal cancer spares major surgery
A new treatment for earlier-stage rectal cancer could transform how patients are treated for the disease, according to a landmark clinical trial.
Medical Xpress / Thrombectomy provides 1-year gains for patients with severe stroke
A one-year follow-up analysis of a landmark clinical trial suggests that patients with severe strokes experienced better long-term outcomes after undergoing endovascular thrombectomy compared with medical management alone, ...
Medical Xpress / Rethinking how we define neurodegenerative diseases
On the surface, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) might seem like unrelated diseases. ALS destroys motor neurons, causing muscle ...
Medical Xpress / Enhancing confidence in AI enhanced brain tumor imaging by measuring uncertainty
MRIs are among the most accurate imaging tests used to diagnose brain tumors, and MRI-based monitoring of tumors guides critical treatment decisions. The clinical standard for measuring tumors often relies on either subjective ...
Medical Xpress / Immunotherapy shows promise for clearing residual melanoma cells
Cornell researchers successfully ramped up the body's own immune response to fight melanoma at the tail end of targeted cancer therapy, when tumors commonly become resistant to these therapies and leave behind residual cancer ...
Medical Xpress / Illicit fentanyl use is more than double medical use in US
The largest study to date to quantify and compare medical and illicit fentanyl use in the United States suggests that illicit use is more than twice as common as medical use.
Medical Xpress / Researchers find no connection between pesticide exposure and social difficulties common in autism
Prenatal exposure to certain insecticides used in agriculture does not appear to be linked to social communication problems and other traits related to autism, a new study shows.
Medical Xpress / Why one size doesn't fit all—type 2 diabetes can operate differently across weight profiles
Research published in Diabetologia by Amsterdam UMC and the University of Ghana reveals that type 2 diabetes manifests in two fundamentally different ways depending on a patient's body mass index (BMI). While type 2 diabetes ...
Medical Xpress / Spatial atlas reveals how ovarian clear cell tumors vary from core to edge
Ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) has a higher prevalence among East Asian women and is characterized by poor clinical outcomes. An interdisciplinary team led by Professor Ruby Yun-Ju Huang at National Taiwan University ...
