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Medical Xpress / Where women live may influence ovarian cancer survival, especially among Black women

A new study led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found that women living in socially vulnerable communities face a 20% higher risk of death after an ovarian cancer diagnosis compared with women living in less ...

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Medical Xpress / Low-fat vegan diet cuts dietary energy density by nearly a third, helping explain weight loss

A low-fat vegan diet lowers the energy density of the foods people eat by roughly 30%, allowing them to eat satisfying amounts of food while taking in fewer calories and losing weight—without deliberately restricting calories—according ...

Aug 9, 2026
Medical Xpress / New study finds bacterial infections affect about 1 in 20 hospitalized adults with firearm injuries

A new study by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) found that bacterial infections develop in approximately 5% of adults hospitalized with firearm injuries, with most infections occurring ...

Aug 9, 2026
Medical Xpress / Protein 'switch' determines whether liposarcoma cells will become aggressive

New research from an expert in cancer biology explains what triggers liposarcoma cells to become more or less aggressive and identifies potential targets that could keep aggressive tumors in check. A study led by Blake Wilde, ...

Aug 9, 2026
Medical Xpress / New targeting method separates opioid pain relief from reward learning in mice

Researchers at Duke University School of Medicine are investigating how to keep opioids' pain-relieving benefits while reducing their addictive potential. In a study published in Nature, they report a step toward that goal.

Aug 9, 2026
Medical Xpress / Study reveals prefrontal cortex can hinder learning more efficient behaviors

The prefrontal cortex, a brain region long associated with learning more flexible behaviors, can sometimes block the ability to think outside the box, a new study in mice shows. The finding by biologists at Emory University ...

Aug 8, 2026
Medical Xpress / Two-stage process helps metastatic cancer cells hide, then multiply in the lungs

Most cancer deaths are caused not by the initial tumor but by the spread of cancer cells to distant organs in the process called metastasis. Since it occurs at the cellular level, the earliest stages of metastasis are difficult ...

Aug 8, 2026
Medical Xpress / Study points to new target for treating aggressive brain cancer

Glioblastoma remains one of the deadliest cancers, with limited treatment advances and tumors that often resist radiation and chemotherapy. New research from The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center–Arthur G. ...

Aug 8, 2026
Medical Xpress / Telomere-to-telomere brown rat genome could sharpen disease research models

Researchers have created the most complete genetic profile of the brown rat to date, according to a UTHealth Houston-led team, paving the way for scientists to more accurately investigate genetic links to conditions like ...

Aug 8, 2026
Medical Xpress / AI-designed E. coli killer points toward new ways to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria

In science, the suffix "phage" means to devour. Thus, the name bacteriophage might conjure images of tiny creatures that "eat" bacteria. While that conception isn't 100% scientifically accurate, bacteriophages are lethal ...

Aug 8, 2026
Medical Xpress / Malaria vaccine add-ons activate three antibody targets, study finds

Malaria kills more than half a million people a year, most of them young children in Africa. Two vaccines are now recommended by the World Health Organization: RTS,S and R21. Both are helpful interventions, but neither works ...

Aug 8, 2026
Medical Xpress / Omega-3 plus low-dose aspirin produces antibiotic-like results against severe periodontitis

A combination of omega-3 and low-dose acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) produced results comparable to antibiotics in treating severe periodontitis. This conclusion is based on a study conducted by researchers affiliated with Albert ...

Aug 7, 2026