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Medical Xpress / How patients write portal messages may affect whether doctors respond
Portal messages have become a routine way for patients to communicate with their health care teams. But a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health suggests that how patients write those messages ...
Medical Xpress / Altered ribosomes help explain how an enzyme fuels tumor growth
A new Northwestern Medicine study has identified a previously unknown mechanism by which an enzyme promotes cancer cell proliferation, establishing it as a promising therapeutic target for cancer, according to findings published ...
Medical Xpress / Metalheads can endure pain longer thanks to the festival experience
True to the motto "Faster, harder, louder," some 80,000 metal fans celebrate their music and bands at Wacken Open Air every year. Lydia Schneider and Tom Fritz from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences ...
Medical Xpress / Dual therapy activates immune defenses while damaging lung cancer DNA
A new preclinical study has demonstrated that combining HER3-DXd with olaparib significantly improves treatment responses in lung cancer models. This combination therapy induces irreparable DNA damage in cancer cells while ...
Medical Xpress / Dual beta rhythms could guide more precise Parkinson's brain stimulation
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center studying Parkinson's disease have discovered a previously unrecognized sequence of abnormal activity across multiple regions of the brain, providing a new level of understanding ...
Medical Xpress / The physical activity paradox: Not all forms of exercise lower your dementia risk. This type raises it
Not all physical activity is equal when it comes to protecting the brain from dementia. Where and why we move may matter more than most people realize.
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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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, ...