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Medical Xpress / Novel molecular marker may improve prostate cancer treatment

Most prostate cancers rely on male sex hormones, known as androgens, to grow. As a result, standard treatment focuses on lowering androgen levels or blocking their activity, but many tumors eventually become resistant and ...

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Medical Xpress / Human islet map links cell mix to insulin output and diabetes risk

Diabetes is the most common and serious chronic disease worldwide, characterized by insufficient insulin to maintain proper blood glucose levels. It affects more than 12% of Americans and is the eighth leading cause of death ...

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Medical Xpress / Today's teens are sleeping less than ever before

New research from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health shows that teenagers today are getting less sleep than any generation before them. This lack of sleep causes daily fatigue and reduced functioning, alongside ...

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Medical Xpress / How screen use, not just screen time, relates to self-regulation and learning in neurodiverse children

A new Western University study that set out to assess screen time and the relationship to self-regulation in a real-world sample of children revealed those 4 to 16 years old are far exceeding recommended daily guidelines.

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Medical Xpress / Tiny worms, with help from researchers, may hold key to treating rare childhood disease

A new worm model developed by Brown University researchers could play a key role in treating a rare genetic disease that causes paralysis in children and worsens with age. Developed in the lab of neuroscientist Anne Hart, ...

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Medical Xpress / Blood test enables earlier detection of heart and kidney disease

A new way to detect the onset of heart and kidney disease far earlier than previously possible has been discovered by scientists. The breakthrough, published today in Nature Communications, reveals a novel method for identifying ...

May 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Gene-edited stem cell transplant shows promise for aggressive blood cancers

For highly aggressive types of blood cancer, stem cell transplantation is often the only potentially curative therapy, yet even after a transplant, these cancers often return. Now a clinical trial, led by researchers at Washington ...

May 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / The magic of mushrooms: Psychedelic psilocybin shows promise for treating cocaine addiction

Cocaine addiction treatment has found a surprising new contender in the highly regulated substance psilocybin, a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in mushroom species popularly known as magic mushrooms or shrooms. ...

May 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Brain histamine map connects genes to brain function and mental health

New research from King's College London and the University of Porto has mapped the histamine system in the brain. Histamine, a molecule more commonly associated with allergies, plays a separate but poorly understood role ...

May 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Personalized vaccine shows promise against aggressive brain cancer

A personalized vaccine to treat glioblastoma, a fast-growing and incurable brain cancer that affects four in 100,000 people in the U.S., is safe and elicits robust and broad immune responses that appear to increase recurrence-free ...

May 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Antibody spurs nerve fiber regrowth following spinal cord injury

An international research group has demonstrated that the antibody NG101 promotes the regeneration of damaged spinal cord tissue. Now, under the leadership of scientists at the University of Zurich and Balgrist University ...

May 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / HIV reveals more than 100 escape mutations against promising antibody therapies

Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) are among the most promising new treatments for HIV, offering the potential to forego traditional daily doses of antiretroviral drugs. In one recent clinical study of bNAbs identified ...

May 12, 2026