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Medical Xpress / Thymus-derived hormone may suppress age-related inflammation and boost cancer therapy

Chronic, low-grade inflammation in the body—a phenomenon known as "inflammaging" because it increases with age—has been linked to many of today's leading causes of illness and death, including cancer, heart disease, metabolic ...

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Medical Xpress / Sudden cardiac death condition shown to have linked genetic variations

Scientists have found that the "sudden" cardiac death condition related to high-profile deaths or major medical episodes of sports stars including Fabrice Muamba, Christian Erikson and Mark-Vivian Foe, has numerous linked ...

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Medical Xpress / Motherhood may reduce late-life frailty rather than raise it, companion dog model suggests

Frailty threatens older individuals because it increases their vulnerability to detrimental health outcomes, such as falls, longer hospitalizations or even shortened life expectancy. Biogerontologists are actively exploring ...

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Medical Xpress / Roadmap charts brain-computer interfaces for depression, anxiety and PTSD

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have made remarkable progress restoring movement and speech in people with paralysis. While brain-computer interface technology thus far has largely focused on decoding motor function, the ...

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Medical Xpress / Around the world, road injuries remain a leading, preventable cause of death among young people

In 2023, nearly 51 million people were injured and 1.34 million died from road injuries, making road injuries one of the leading global causes of premature death and disability, according to a new study published in The Lancet ...

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Medical Xpress / A new plan for healthy aging starts before we're born

Most of us would like to hang around on the planet for as long as possible, and thankfully, lifespans in many countries are increasing. Scientists are also developing a new field known as longevity medicine, which aims to ...

Jul 20, 2026
Medical Xpress / How autistic brains process faces differently

Researchers have conducted one of the most comprehensive studies on how the autistic brain processes faces. Some hallmark characteristics of autism include tendencies to avoid looking at others' faces and to make less eye ...

Jul 20, 2026
Medical Xpress / Largest genetic analysis of borderline personality disorder identifies 11 risk regions and nine genes

An international team led by the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim has presented the largest genome-wide association study on borderline personality disorder to date. Data from about 13,000 affected people and ...

Jul 20, 2026
Medical Xpress / Hidden cell network offers new clues to intestinal healing and disease

Your intestine completely rebuilds its inner lining every few days—one of the fastest renewal processes in the human body. Scientists have now discovered that this extraordinary feat is accompanied by a hidden network of ...

Jul 20, 2026
Medical Xpress / Researchers uncover 'hidden key' to immunotherapy for intractable brain tumors

Researchers have uncovered a clue to why immune checkpoint inhibitors—cancer therapies that release the immune "brakes" exploited by tumors to evade attack—show limited efficacy in some brain tumors. A KAIST research team ...

Jul 20, 2026
Medical Xpress / Aspirin matches costlier blood thinners after hip and knee replacement surgery, major trial finds

Joint replacements are among the most common surgeries worldwide, and preventing blood clots is critical to recovery. A Dalhousie-led study published this month—one of the most robust of its kind to date—found that a straightforward ...

Jul 20, 2026
Medical Xpress / GLP-1 use rising rapidly among US adolescents and young adults, study finds

Adolescents and young adults in the U.S. are increasingly using popular GLP-1 weight-loss drugs alone or in conjunction with metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) to manage obesity, according to a study by UT Southwestern ...

Jul 20, 2026