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Medical Xpress / Study finds AR/VR sports games boost mental health and social connection

Physical sports have long been known to help with anxiety and mental health. But can augmented and virtual reality sports games improve psychological well-being and reduce loneliness? Researchers at Michigan State University's ...

Sep 14, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes, finds study of over 4 million adults

Cannabis use is linked to an almost quadrupling in the risk of developing diabetes, according to an analysis of real-world data from over 4 million adults, being presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association ...

Sep 14, 2025 in Health
Medical Xpress / A pathological partnership between Salmonella and yeast in the gut

University of Illinois Chicago-led researchers have found that a common gut yeast, Candida albicans, can help Salmonella Typhimurium take hold in the intestine and spread through the body. When interacting, a Salmonella protein ...

Medical Xpress / Study finds key brain area drives alcohol-seeking to escape withdrawal stress

What compels someone to keep engaging in alcohol use, even if it damages their health, relationships and well-being? A new study from Scripps Research offers an important clue: a small midline brain region plays a key role ...

Sep 13, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Well-preserved Amazon rainforest on Indigenous lands can protect people from diseases, study finds

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick.

Sep 13, 2025 in Health
Medical Xpress / Phase I trial finds topical PXS-6302 generally well tolerated in established skin scars

University of Western Australia's Burn Injury Research Unit with the Fiona Wood Foundation reports that topical pan-lysyl oxidase inhibition with PXS-6302 was generally well tolerated over three months and altered extracellular ...

Sep 12, 2025 in Surgery
Medical Xpress / Genetic deletion in cerebellum impedes hemisphere formation, study finds

The cerebellum, a brain region located at the back of the head that has long been known to support the coordination of muscle movements, has recently also been implicated in more sophisticated mental functions. Purkinje cells ...

Sep 12, 2025 in Genetics
Medical Xpress / Microbial allies: Bacteria help fight against cancer

An international team of scientists led by researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), Imperial College London and the University of Cologne have discovered that microbes associated with tumors produce a ...

Sep 12, 2025 in Medical research
Medical Xpress / New study links blood proteins to Alzheimer's disease and memory loss

Researchers at Emory Goizueta Brain Health Institute and partner institutions have found new clues in the blood that could help explain why Alzheimer's disease develops and how it affects memory.

Sep 12, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Study supports acupuncture as a safe and effective treatment for chronic low back pain in older adults

According to a recent study, older Americans with chronic low back pain who received acupuncture had greater improvement in physical function and reduced pain than those who received usual medical care only, generally prescribed ...

Medical Xpress / Using deep learning for precision cancer therapy

Nearly 50 new cancer therapies are approved every year. This is good news. "But for patients and their treating physicians, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep track and to select the treatment methods from which ...

Sep 12, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Engineered antibodies can direct T-cells to kill cytomegalovirus-infected cells

A UCLA research team has found a new way to prompt the immune system to kill cells infected with cytomegalovirus (CMV), a life-threatening infection that is particularly deadly in immunocompromised people.