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Medical Xpress / Experimental brain implants are on the rise. What happens after the trials are over?
In 2024, Elon Musk's Neuralink put its first brain implant into a human amid doubt from scientists and allegations of animal cruelty.
Medical Xpress / Voice disorder may be an early sign of dementia, study suggests
Those experiencing worsening voice quality—in pitch, clarity, volume, reduced vocal range or other voice disorders—and no hearing loss may be at 58% greater risk of cognitive impairment or dementia than those who are not ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds liposuction reduces lipedema pain more than conservative treatment
A study titled "Liposuction versus conservative therapy for patients with lipoedema: A randomized controlled multi-center clinical trial" published in The Lancet, provides the first large-scale, multicenter evidence base ...
Medical Xpress / Micro-bladder model offers clues to stopping recurrent UTIs
A lab-grown micro bladder may explain why urinary tract infections (UTIs) return so frequently, according to a study led by researchers at UCL, the University of Oxford and the University of Leicester.
Medical Xpress / Practice helps the brain separate tasks and improve multitasking ability
Why is it so difficult to perform two tasks at the same time? For decades, scientists have debated whether multitasking is limited by a "central bottleneck" that restricts simultaneous processing or by competition for limited ...
Medical Xpress / Health warnings could reduce young people's social media use, study finds
Pop-up messages that warn of the harms of social media—such as mental health consequences—have the potential to reduce young people's social media use, a new Stanford Medicine study has found. The online experiment of about ...
Medical Xpress / Tumor biology could guide mantle cell lymphoma treatment from the time of diagnosis
Today, treatment decisions for patients with mantle cell lymphoma are heavily based on age alone, although the disease can range from slow-growing (indolent) to very aggressive. In a new journal article, Ingrid Glimelius ...
Medical Xpress / GLP-1 use among young children with obesity in US remains rare but is rising rapidly
Although the number of U.S. children under age 12 with obesity who are prescribed the weight-loss drugs Saxenda, Wegovy and Zepbound remains low, it was 310 times higher in June 2026 than in 2019, when the drugs were first ...
Medical Xpress / Diabetes drug metformin could be repurposed to help slow aging mechanisms
Metformin, a widely prescribed, safe and inexpensive drug for type 2 diabetes, is a first-line treatment that lowers blood sugar and improves the body's response to insulin. The drug appears to trick cells into sensing an ...
Medical Xpress / Cannabis edibles can impair driving, even with blood THC below legal limits
The feeling of being "high" on cannabis primarily comes from its psychoactive compound, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. Alongside it is its more subdued companion, cannabidiol (CBD), often used for its potential therapeutic ...
Medical Xpress / Cancer cells release antioxidants to prevent immune cells from destroying them
Molecules called reactive oxygen species, which include so-called "free radicals," have long been viewed as damaging byproducts of our body's metabolism—a reason antioxidant supplements have been considered a potential way ...
Medical Xpress / Key path to Alzheimer's-like brain damage starts outside the brain
Immune cells that normally protect the body from damage by attacking foreign or infected cells are found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders at much higher levels than in healthy brains. ...
