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Medical Xpress / Doubling up to limit weight gain: Improving diet and exercise together provides the more effective route, study finds

Improving diet and increasing physical activity levels together may be more effective at preventing weight gain—particularly harmful fat inside the abdomen—than just changing one of these behaviors, new research from ...

Nov 21, 2025 in Health
Medical Xpress / Stenting reduces stroke risk in people with carotid artery narrowing, study finds

An international study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has found that for people with severe carotid artery narrowing who haven't experienced recent stroke symptoms, a minimally invasive procedure called carotid artery stenting, ...

Nov 21, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / How T cells transform to defend our organs

We owe a lot to tissue resident memory T cells (TRM). These specialized immune cells are among the body's first responders to disease.

Nov 21, 2025 in Immunology
Medical Xpress / Therapeutic climbing lifts mood and sharpens focus for inpatients with depression, anxiety and OCD

Researchers at the University of Innsbruck and Schoen Clinic Roseneck report that structured therapeutic climbing sessions were experienced as emotionally lifting, mentally focusing, socially connecting, and physically strengthening ...

Nov 21, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Some children's tantrums can be seen in the brain, new study reveals

In the search for a way to measure different forms of a condition called sensory processing disorder, neuroscientists are using imaging to see how young brains process sensory stimulation.

Nov 21, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / US lung cancer screening fails most patients, according to study

In a study of nearly 1,000 consecutive patients treated for lung cancer at Northwestern Medicine, researchers discovered only 35% would have qualified for screening, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) ...

Nov 21, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / New implant captures gut-brain signals in awake, moving animals

Scientists have been able to measure the electrical signals in the "second brain in our guts" for the first-ever time, giving renewed understanding to its interconnection with the brain.

Nov 21, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Macrophages can act like neurons for faster muscle injury repair, study finds

At the cellular level, the mechanics of how muscle tissue repair occurs gets complicated. There are significant differences between, say, tearing a muscle in a sports injury versus muscle tissue wasting away from diseases ...

Nov 21, 2025 in Immunology
Medical Xpress / How the cheese-noodle principle could help counter Alzheimer's

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have clarified how spermine—a small molecule that regulates many processes in the body's cells—can guard against diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's: It renders ...

Nov 21, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / How COVID-19 variants outsmart the immune system

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators have created the most comprehensive map to date showing how antibodies attach to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, and how viral mutations ...

Medical Xpress / Higher screen time linked to ADHD symptoms and altered brain development

The digital age has fundamentally reshaped childhood, making screens an integral part of learning, socialization, and entertainment. Globally, screen time among adolescents has surged, accelerated by the isolation and remote ...

Nov 21, 2025 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Marine bacteria show potent antitumor effects against colorectal cancer

A research team led by Professor Eijiro Miyako at the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), has discovered that the marine bacterium Photobacterium ...

Nov 21, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer