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Medical Xpress / Study links higher asprosin to less weight gain after menopause

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health have identified how the hormone asprosin influences long-term weight change among postmenopausal women in the United States. ...

Mar 11, 2026
Medical Xpress / Q&A: How small steps can help GLP-1 users build healthier habits

A Stanford study shows simple digital prompts can motivate people taking GLP-1 medications to make lifestyle changes. It's a simple premise: What if something as small as a digital nudge could put someone on the path to healthier ...

Mar 11, 2026
Medical Xpress / Aging may change lung cancer treatment: Targeting ATF4 could curb metastasis

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have identified a protein linked to an increased risk of metastasis and recurrence in lung cancer. The findings are presented in a study published in the journal Nature that paves ...

Mar 11, 2026
Medical Xpress / Q&A: What factors influence likelihood and severity of Ebola outbreaks?

Since its first documentation in 1976, there have been more than three dozen outbreaks of Ebola virus disease in Central and West Africa, the largest of which resulted in the deaths of more than 11,000 people between 2013 ...

Mar 11, 2026
Medical Xpress / Turning cancer's protein machinery against itself to boost immunity

A new study led by Pierre Close's team (GIGA, Laboratory of Cancer Signaling, and WELRI Investigator) reveals how subtly disrupting the way tumors produce their proteins can trigger a potent antitumor immune response. Researchers ...

Mar 11, 2026
Medical Xpress / Disposable vapes ban could lead young adults to switch to cigarettes, study finds

The disposable vapes ban in the UK could lead to young adults switching to alternative products, including cigarettes, new research led by the University of Bristol has found.

Mar 11, 2026
Medical Xpress / Updated testing protocol may improve kidney disease diagnosis in Black patients

A closer examination of the APOL1 gene in Black patients with kidney disease can provide more accurate diagnoses than current protocols, a new study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and ...

Mar 11, 2026
Medical Xpress / 16-year study finds major health burden in single‑ventricle heart disease

Children born with single-ventricle heart disease, a rare and serious heart defect, often undergo multiple surgeries in their first years of life. A new study shows the challenges for these children can last well into adolescence ...

Mar 11, 2026
Medical Xpress / The timing of rewards plays a key role in learning, study finds

For almost a century, psychology and neuroscience researchers have been trying to understand the processes via which humans and other animals acquire new skills or learn to deal with specific situations. One well-known and ...

Mar 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / Movies reconstructed purely from mouse brain activity

Scientists have successfully reconstructed videos purely from the brain activity of mice, showing what the mice were seeing, in a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers. The findings, published in eLife, ...

Mar 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / Blood test predicts dementia in women as many as 25 years before symptoms begin

Researchers from the University of California San Diego have found that a novel blood-based biomarker can predict a woman's risk of developing dementia as many as 25 years before symptoms appear.

Mar 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / How voluntary exercise reshapes tryptophan metabolism through the gut microbiota

Something happens when a rat starts running. Not just the obvious things, the faster heart, the warming muscles, the rhythmic percussion of paws against the wheel. Something quieter. Something that begins in the coiled darkness ...

Mar 10, 2026