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Medical Xpress / Epilepsy 'brain blips' can be predicted a full second early with neuron-level probes
Epilepsy is best known for seizures, but many people with the condition also experience much more frequent and subtler disruptions. These brief bursts of abnormal brain activity, called interictal epileptiform discharges ...
Medical Xpress / Medicine faces an AI reckoning: What happens when machines seem more empathetic than doctors?
A new perspective published in JAMA challenges the growing narrative that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to replace physicians, arguing instead that the technology exposes deeper structural failures in modern health ...
Medical Xpress / Targeted 'biological missile' blocks leukemia growth while sparing healthy tissue
New research out of VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered a targeted cancer therapy that significantly prevents leukemia progression, improves survival rates and minimizes damage to surrounding healthy tissue.
Medical Xpress / Does vaping help people quit smoking? Maybe, findings suggest
A new review paper in Nicotine and Tobacco Research, finds that while research has previously found that vaping is associated with subsequently quitting smoking, that may not always be true. In fact, it appears studies limited ...
Medical Xpress / New autism therapy may improve children's social communication in just five days
A new non-invasive brain stimulation technique known as accelerated continuous theta burst stimulation (a-cTBS) improves social communication at one month follow-up and has a favorable safety profile in children with autism, ...
Medical Xpress / Revealing the unusual ability of a protein involved in lung and thyroid cancer
Research conducted at the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) has revealed an unexpected behavior observed in a protein involved in several types of cancer: it manages to self-activate, meaning it gives itself the order ...
Medical Xpress / Why CAR T therapy works for some patients but fails for others may be getting clearer
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is one of oncology's most powerful ideas: Harvest a cancer patient's own immune cells, genetically engineer them to recognize tumor cells, multiply them in a laboratory and reinject ...
Medical Xpress / Tumor-on-a-chip reveals how pancreatic cancer interacts with scar tissue and resists treatment
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most difficult cancers to treat, in large part because tumors do not exist in isolation. Instead, they are surrounded by a dense and complex network of blood vessels, connective tissue, ...
Medical Xpress / AI model could warn of cardiac arrest 10 to 15 minutes early
Perelman School of Medicine cardiologist Rajat Deo has been studying electrocardiographic (ECG) data and cardiac rhythms for nearly two decades at Penn. He says that every second, hospitals generate "enormous streams of ECG ...
Medical Xpress / Sedatives in pregnancy not linked to psychiatric disorders in children
A large South Korean study published by The BMJ finds no increased risk of psychiatric or neurodevelopmental disorders, such as ADHD and autism, in children whose mothers used sedative drugs (benzodiazepines or Z-hypnotics) ...
Medical Xpress / Maternal antibodies in pregnancy may shape lifelong defenses against gum disease
A study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has identified a significant link between maternal care and lifelong oral health. Led by Prof. Avi-Hai Hovav and the DMD/Ph.D. student Reem Naamneh from the Faculty of Dental ...
Medical Xpress / One of the world's most common knee surgeries does not help and may even be harmful
Partial meniscectomy does not improve patient symptoms or function, reveals a 10-year follow-up of the FIDELITY, a placebo-surgery controlled trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
