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Medical Xpress / Sleep and exercise may curb heart risk from mutant white blood cells

Healthy sleep and regular exercise can work to counteract genetic mutations in white blood cells that are associated with cardiovascular disease and are most common among older people, Mount Sinai researchers have found. ...

Jun 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / 1 in 3 middle-aged adults struggle with basic 'everyday' health tasks, study finds

A new Northwestern University study has found one in three middle-aged American adults ages 35 to 64 cannot consistently read prescription instructions correctly, understand medical forms or recall details from doctor visits ...

Jun 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / Suicide prevention overlooks products still widely sold and promoted, analysis warns

Governments put up railings and barriers and regulate supplies of certain drugs to prevent people from dying by suicide. But other products associated with fatal self-harm, such as firearms, pesticides and alcohol, remain ...

Jun 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / GLP-1s may alleviate depression through the microbiome, mouse study suggests

Some people taking GLP-1 drugs for diabetes and obesity experience mental health benefits—particularly a decrease in symptoms of depression. In a mouse model study published in Cell Host & Microbe, researchers report that ...

Jun 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / Inexpensive drug should be used in most major surgeries to prevent blood transfusion, clinical trial finds

A landmark clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that tranexamic acid reduced transfusions across major surgeries without increasing the risk of dangerous blood clots. The trial was coordinated ...

Jun 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / Smartphone tests spot cognitive decline faster than standard method

People with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are at higher risk of developing dementia. Indeed, many of them experience a gradual decline in cognitive performance over time. Smartphone- or tablet-based memory tests can capture ...

Jun 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / Oral therapy enables at-home treatment for acute myeloid leukemia

For years, treatment of older patients with acute myeloid leukemia—an aggressive cancer of the blood and bone marrow—has required injections administered in a clinic for five to seven consecutive days each month, in addition ...

Jun 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / Ultrasensitive blood test predicts head and neck cancer relapse months earlier

A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute has found that an ultrasensitive blood test called HPV-DeepSeek could help identify which people with HPV-associated head and neck cancer still had cancer ...

Jun 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / AI diagnoses brain tumors in minutes instead of weeks

Experts in Heidelberg, Germany, have developed an AI system that can classify brain tumors with unprecedented accuracy using standard microscopic tissue sections. Using digitized standard stains, the system identifies more ...

Jun 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / Augmented reality system could make medical ultrasounds easier to interpret

Interpreting medical ultrasound images is a difficult task, requiring a technician to look at 2D images and mentally arrange them into a 3D representation of what the tissue looks like. To make that job easier, MIT researchers ...

Jun 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / Brain aneurysm map reveals cell types tied to rupture risk

A new study from UC San Francisco shows how certain cells in the brain may cause aneurysms to weaken and rupture. It helps explain why some aneurysms burst while others do not and could lead to new ways of predicting and ...

Jun 10, 2026
Medical Xpress / Living with cats does not worsen asthma in children, suggests study

Asthma is the most common chronic disease and one of the main causes of hospitalization among children. The Global Asthma Network has estimated that its global prevalence is 9.1% for children and 11.0% for adolescents, but ...

Jun 10, 2026