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Medical Xpress / Immunotherapy shows promise for clearing residual melanoma cells

Cornell researchers successfully ramped up the body's own immune response to fight melanoma at the tail end of targeted cancer therapy, when tumors commonly become resistant to these therapies and leave behind residual cancer ...

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Medical Xpress / Language skills stay strong in older adults, even while other cognitive abilities decline

As people age, many cognitive functions tend to decline. Brain-scanning studies have revealed corresponding changes in the function of a brain network involved in many of these cognitive functions, including working memory ...

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Medical Xpress / Metalheads can endure pain longer thanks to the festival experience

True to the motto "Faster, harder, louder," some 80,000 metal fans celebrate their music and bands at Wacken Open Air every year. Lydia Schneider and Tom Fritz from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences ...

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Medical Xpress / Rethinking how we define neurodegenerative diseases

On the surface, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) might seem like unrelated diseases. ALS destroys motor neurons, causing muscle ...

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Medical Xpress / Weight loss drugs may offer a new avenue for bipolar disorder research

Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA), commonly used to treat diabetes and weight loss, may have additional mental health benefits, especially for people with bipolar disorder, new Griffith University research ...

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Medical Xpress / How the Chagas disease parasite 'activates' its infectious form

The Chagas disease parasite (Trypanosoma cruzi) undergoes a major transformation throughout its life cycle to infect humans and other mammals. It alters the types and amounts of proteins in its body to adapt. The factors ...

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Medical Xpress / How well do COVID antivirals actually work? Not as well as we thought

If you're 70 or older, or 50 or older with underlying health conditions, and have tested positive for COVID, you might have been offered free or subsidized antivirals.

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Medical Xpress / Can you slow the aging process? Study reveals which interventions might help

When Raghav Sehgal arrived at Yale as a graduate student several years ago, he wanted to explore the use of powerful computer science tools in cancer research. With an engineering background and a computational biology startup ...

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Medical Xpress / Researchers find no connection between pesticide exposure and social difficulties common in autism

Prenatal exposure to certain insecticides used in agriculture does not appear to be linked to social communication problems and other traits related to autism, a new study shows.

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Medical Xpress / Why one size doesn't fit all—type 2 diabetes can operate differently across weight profiles

Research published in Diabetologia by Amsterdam UMC and the University of Ghana reveals that type 2 diabetes manifests in two fundamentally different ways depending on a patient's body mass index (BMI). While type 2 diabetes ...

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Dialog / A gut microbial health index as a composite biomarker for evaluating overall health

Each person has a unique gut microbial population, with variation shaped by diet, lifestyle and disease. We are seeing a rapid rise in metabolic disorders, obesity and inflammatory diseases that cannot be explained by our ...

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Medical Xpress / Smart probiotics can sense high blood sugar and release GLP-1 on demand

For people living with diabetes, managing blood sugar can mean constantly watching the clock, keeping meals and medications on schedule and staying alert to changes in glucose levels. While little can be done about timed ...

Aug 23, 2026