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Medical Xpress / Intranasal breast milk therapy clears first safety test in brain-injured newborns
Between December 2024 and February 2025, 10 newborns with hypoxic-ischemic brain injury were treated with breast milk administered through the nasal passages using a special method at Semmelweis University in Budapest. A ...
Medical Xpress / Blocking energy metabolism may help treat an aggressive pediatric brain tumor
Blocking energy production pathways in an aggressive type of brain cancer in children could be a promising new therapeutic strategy, according to research in mice by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators. The paper ...
Medical Xpress / The language of helplessness: How we write about ourselves reveals symptoms of depression
People struggling with symptoms of depression are less likely to perceive themselves as active initiators of their activities, which is directly reflected in the way they express themselves. Analyzing the way people construct ...
Medical Xpress / Cervical cancer: Study reveals a growing gap between high- and low-income countries
While high-income countries like Canada could eliminate cervical cancer by 2048 through human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and screening, the gap with lower-income countries is widening. A study published in The Lancet ...
Medical Xpress / Novel theranostic approach for radioimmunotherapy achieves curative responses in colorectal cancer tumors
A new pretargeted radioimmunotherapy (PRIT) technique has been shown to be safe and effective in eradicating tumors from a preclinical colorectal cancer model. The multi-step theranostic approach delivers alpha-emitting radiation ...
Medical Xpress / New AI-powered robotic system performs heart ultrasounds without guidance
A Concordia-led team of researchers has developed a new AI-driven robotic system that can perform cardiac ultrasound scans autonomously. The researchers say this approach could expand access to cardiac imaging in remote or ...
Medical Xpress / AI-assisted approach identifies IRS4 as a promising drug target in multiple solid tumors
Leveraging AI capabilities combined with genetic data led St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators to predict new cancer drug targets that carry a limited risk of side effects. For their study, published in Science ...
Medical Xpress / Two people, same weight, vastly different futures: New tool exposes obesity danger before disease strikes
The study, published in Nature Medicine, shows that future risk of 18 obesity-related diseases can be predicted using 20 commonly collected health measures, such as blood test results and demographic information. The tool ...
Medical Xpress / A study in 1.4 million women expands knowledge on endometriosis and its biological complexity
Endometriosis, a chronic inflammatory disease that affects approximately one in ten women of reproductive age—around 190 million worldwide—remains poorly understood from a biological perspective, which has historically hindered ...
Medical Xpress / Scientists discover new way to make drug-resistant cancer treatable again
Cancer cells survive by repairing damage to their DNA—even damage that would normally be fatal. One of their most important defense systems is homologous recombination, a high-precision repair pathway that fixes broken DNA ...
Medical Xpress / A single swab paves the way for simplified tuberculosis diagnosis
Led by researchers from Heidelberg Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University and the University of California, San Francisco (U.S.), an international team has evaluated a novel approach for the diagnosis of tuberculosis. ...
Medical Xpress / Task switching raises risk in transplant surgeries, study finds
When transplant surgeons switched between different organ types in consecutive surgeries, one-year mortality rates in patients increased by 14.8%, according to new Virginia Tech research. The findings suggest that scheduling ...
