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Medical Xpress / How an adolescent's brain reacts to faces may predict their social future

It's been said that eyes are a window to the soul, but new research has found that an adolescent's brain response to a face might open a window to their social future. A new study at the University of California, Davis Center ...

Jul 13, 2026
Medical Xpress / Odds of HPV-related cancers up for people with HIV and solid organ transplant recipients

The odds of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers are higher among people with HIV (PWH) and solid-organ transplant recipients (SOTRs), according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Jul 13, 2026
Medical Xpress / Study finds obesity 'fuels' leukemia, but a combo using popular weight-loss drugs may stop it

Obesity can act as fuel for leukemia, according to a study led by Indiana University School of Medicine scientists. To help patients facing aggressive blood cancers overcome this metabolic risk, researchers identified a potential ...

Jul 13, 2026
Medical Xpress / Contact-free sensors could help track movement symptoms in Parkinson's disease

Disease progression in people with Parkinson's disease can be accurately monitored using sensors, removing some of the limitations of wearable technologies, a new study reports. In the study published in the Journal of NeuroEngineering ...

Jul 13, 2026
Medical Xpress / Dementia rising across Latino populations, multidecade study finds

A new study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Newcastle University in the U.K. finds that the share of adults living with dementia rose substantially across several Latin American ...

Jul 13, 2026
Medical Xpress / Researchers reveal immune mechanisms that drive development of rare allergic stomach disease

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed one of the first experimental models that faithfully reproduces eosinophilic gastritis (EoG), a rare but increasingly recognized allergic disease of the stomach. Using this ...

Jul 13, 2026
Medical Xpress / Ibuprofen safely dampens inflammatory markers in 28-patient drug-resistant tuberculosis trial

The Experimental Tuberculosis Unit (UTE) at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) has published in Nature Communications the results of a phase IIa pilot clinical trial assessing ibuprofen as a host-directed ...

Jul 13, 2026
Medical Xpress / Heat exposure during pregnancy and infancy may influence children's brain development

Exposure to high temperatures during pregnancy and early infancy is associated with slower growth of the thalamus later in childhood, according to a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a center ...

Jul 13, 2026
Medical Xpress / 'Double-donut' structure of SPOP protein reveals mechanism of unexplained cancer mutations

Mutations to the protein SPOP are widespread in cancer, yet many remain poorly understood. To address this gap, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists obtained structures of SPOP in both the presence and absence ...

Jul 13, 2026
Medical Xpress / Patients whose physicians scored higher in LKA less likely to receive low-value care

Patients whose physicians scored higher in the first year of the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Internal Medicine Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment (LKA) were significantly less likely to receive low-value health ...

Jul 13, 2026
Medical Xpress / Ureters stay visible for hours with dye designed to vanish through kidneys

A cross-disciplinary research team led by Hongjie Dai, director of the Materials Institute of Life Sciences and Energy (MILES) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in Shenzhen, has developed a promising near-infrared (NIR) ...

Jul 13, 2026
Medical Xpress / Night owls eat later, choose less nutritious food, carry more belly fat and show higher metabolic risk

For generations, early to bed and early to rise was seen as the blueprint for a healthy life, and any departure from it was often considered unhealthy. Scientists, however, have discovered that whether someone is an early ...

Jul 12, 2026