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Medical Xpress / Listening to music for 24 minutes may ease anxiety, study finds

A short music session may help ease anxiety and researchers say there's a "sweet spot" for how long to listen.

Mar 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Solving the oxygen problem in cell-based drug delivery

Implanting living cells as long-term drug producers could transform treatment for numerous diseases, but it is difficult to house the tiny workers in quantities high enough to ensure dosage needs are met while also keeping ...

Mar 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Gut 'primes' pathogenic T cells responsible for neuroinflammation in multiple sclerosis, study finds

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating neurological disorder caused by malfunctioning immune responses that target the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system (CNS). What makes the body turn against itself? ...

Mar 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / Study finds M-CHAT autism screening misses 38% of high-risk toddlers

M-CHAT does not catch all children with autism in the neonatal high-risk group, shows a study from Karolinska Institutet published in JAMA Network Open. The researchers see a need to supplement the test with other assessment ...

Mar 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / TENS plus physical therapy eases fibromyalgia pain and fatigue, study finds

Adding TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) to outpatient physical therapy reduced movement-based pain and fatigue in patients with fibromyalgia, and the effects lasted for at least six months, according to ...

Mar 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / AI-powered 'lab-on-a-chip' platform may enable same-day treatment decisions for pediatric patients

Scientists at the University of Utah (the U) have developed a new "lab-on-a-chip" device that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly predict cancer cell sensitivity to targeted therapies for children with T-cell acute lymphoblastic ...

Mar 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / Hidden 'resilience window' found in human brain one hour after stress

Psychological resilience is often misunderstood as simple "toughness" or an insensitivity to stress. However, true resilience is the brain's capacity to adapt and recover after a stressful event. Researchers from the Kochi ...

Mar 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / Why COVID and flu hit older lungs harder: Aging tissue may bring on immune dysregulation

Older adults are much more likely to become seriously ill from flu or COVID because aging lung cells can drive excessive immune responses, according to a new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco. The findings enhance ...

Mar 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / Pain neurons protect nerve health and offer new therapeutic targets

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that helps pain sensing nerve cells stay healthy and respond to injury. The findings, published in Nature Communications, may improve understanding ...

Mar 27, 2026
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 ...

Mar 27, 2026
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 ...

Mar 27, 2026
Medical Xpress / Strong patient diversity in biobanks reveals new genetic links to disease risk and treatment response

A new study by UCLA Health published in Cell presents a major advancement in the future of personalized medicine by pinpointing new connections between people's genes, disease risk and medicine response by using a clinically ...

Mar 27, 2026