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Medical Xpress / FDA approves once-daily Idvynso tablet for treating HIV

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Merck's Idvynso (doravirine/islatravir), a new, once-daily, two-drug single tablet for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults to replace the current antiretroviral regimen ...

May 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Early brain regions play greater role in decision-making, challenging traditional neuroscience

New insight into decision-making pathways in the brain may impact the way engineers think about artificial intelligence, according to new research from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ...

May 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Reverse engineering ketamine's effects may lead to new antidepressants

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have "reverse engineered" ketamine's antidepressant effects to identify potential new strategies for treating depression. While there are many effective treatments available for depression, ...

May 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / How individual consciousness works—and makes us unique

As we go through life, our brains run different processing modes. Some—the attention and sensory systems—result in very similar experiences of the world: what color the sky is, how warm the day feels.

May 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Skull microchannels reveal hidden route for brain immune defense

A study led by Rafael Gallareto-Sande, a predoctoral researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), provides new insights into a network of tiny blood vessels within the cranial bones ...

May 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Mothers without a specific fatty acid in the blood more often have children with asthma, study reveals

Shortness of breath, coughing, and respiratory infections. Childhood asthma, also known as asthmatic bronchitis, is one of the most common chronic diseases in children worldwide. But why does the disease develop? Research ...

May 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Battery-free skin-conformal wearable system can measure electrocardiogram signals

A research team led by Prof. Jerald Yoo from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU) has developed a skin-conformal wearable health care system, "SkinECG," capable of measuring ...

May 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Patients clam up with medical AI, and that gap could reshape digital diagnosis

It is quite possible that in the near future, people will have to describe their symptoms to an AI before they can get a doctor's appointment. The AI will then decide whether it is an emergency or if treatment can wait, and ...

May 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Why some aplastic anemia patients recover: Protective blood stem cell clones may restore marrow

Aplastic anemia is a rare, life-threatening blood disorder where patients are unable to make enough blood cells due to the immune system's attack on blood stem cells. The condition can progress to myelodysplastic syndrome ...

May 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Major depression in women and girls peaks two weeks after giving birth, study finds

Major depression fluctuates during and after pregnancy but has the highest prevalence two weeks after giving birth, a University of Queensland study has found. Researchers used data from 780 studies, collected from more than ...

May 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / Pancreatic cancer 'playbook' reveals why survival remains just 13% after 5 years

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have published a major new review that brings fresh clarity to one of the deadliest forms of cancer—pancreatic cancer—by mapping how the disease operates at every level. The review is ...

May 1, 2026
Medical Xpress / First psychiatric admission marks the beginning of a long-term illness for most patients

Only a very small number of people never return to psychiatric services after being admitted once. That is the conclusion of a new study from the University of Copenhagen, which followed 150 young people for 20 years after ...

May 1, 2026