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Medical Xpress / AI learns to make sense of childhood cancer survivors' health care needs

Artificial intelligence (AI) could help physicians determine if survivors of childhood cancer need extra support—and the more information included in AI prompting, the better its performance. This finding, published in Communications ...

11 hours ago
Medical Xpress / A new view of intestinal regeneration: What fetal reversion could mean for IBD and cancer

Dynamic switching between revival stem cells and conventional intestinal stem cells enables efficient tissue repair without exhausting the stem cell pool, report researchers from Institute of Science Tokyo. Using organoid ...

8 hours ago
Medical Xpress / New tool rates diet misinformation by potential for harm, not just true or false

A new tool that not only identifies diet and nutrition misinformation online but also evaluates the content's risk for potential harm has been developed by a team of UCL researchers. The work has been published in Scientific ...

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Medical Xpress / Treating disease at birth: How a brief spike in testosterone sets the trajectory for disease that appears decades later

Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a rare inherited disease that causes progressive muscle weakness and wasting in men. Patients typically develop early symptoms such as hand tremors in their 30s, but diagnosis ...

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Medical Xpress / Guidance for safer AI-enabled medical devices: Researchers highlight the importance of human factors

AI-enabled medical devices promise improved medical care and support for health care professionals. However, the safety and performance of such systems not only depends on algorithms or technical specifications. It is equally ...

8 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Molecular test for bile duct cancer nearly doubles detection rate

When patients develop a narrowing or blockage in the bile ducts—the tubes connecting the liver, gallbladder and intestines—physicians must determine whether the cause is cancer or a benign condition. The location of these ...

11 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Study finds a U-shaped link between ovarian cancer diagnosis time and survival

Ovarian cancer is hard to diagnose early. Its symptoms, like bloating and abdominal pain, are vague and similar to other more common conditions. Early diagnosis improves outcomes for many cancers. However, prior research ...

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Medical Xpress / TIE2 protein emerges as potential drug target to prevent development of dangerous blood vessel defects in brain

Researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified a cell surface receptor protein called TIE2 as the missing link between two key signaling pathways that drive the growth of ...

11 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Triple pre-surgery therapy may boost immunity against soft tissue sarcoma

Early results from preclinical studies and a clinical trial led by researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and Stanford Medicine suggest that combining targeted radiation therapy with an experimental ...

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Medical Xpress / Hospital delirium linked to later dementia risk in healthy adults

Older adults who develop delirium during a hospital admission face a substantially higher risk of dementia in later years, even if they had no prior health conditions, according to a major new population study appearing in ...

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Medical Xpress / Study builds a seven-factor scale of play, based on children's own words

If you need good play to have a good childhood, then we need to know what good play looks like. But studies of play often start from an adult perspective, leaving out kids' perspectives. To overcome this, scientists surveyed ...

20 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Influencers promoting prescription drugs on social media pose public health risks

In today's world, attention is increasingly focused on social media and its influencers, a shift reflected in the industry's rapid growth and a global market projected to surpass $32 billion. The marketing teams of pharmaceutical ...

Mar 26, 2026