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Medical Xpress / Simple eye scan in preterm infants may help predict brain development
Very preterm infants face up to a 50% higher risk of developmental challenges affecting movement, learning, language and behavior. Today, many of those challenges are not fully recognized until later in infancy or early childhood. ...
Medical Xpress / Hidden mechanism driving joint tissue growth in rheumatoid arthritis has been found
Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) have identified a specialized population of immune cells that plays a central role in driving abnormal tissue growth in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), offering new insight into ...
Medical Xpress / Declining global acceptability of intimate partner violence tied to declining prevalence
A study of more than 60 countries shows those with faster declines in the social acceptability of intimate partner violence against women also tend to have had faster reductions in rates of such violence, as well as faster ...
Medical Xpress / Age limits alone won't fix smartphone risks, suggests study
Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, found that a year after receiving their ...
Medical Xpress / Top supplements Americans use are shifting from multivitamins to targeted health fixes
Dietary supplements are an excellent way to fill gaps in our nutritional requirements. From vitamins and macronutrients to gut-health probiotics, dietary supplements have helped people address deficiencies. In recent years, ...
Medical Xpress / Exposure to bright evening light linked to higher risk of age-related eye disease
Every sunrise and sunset sends the body a signal, keeping the circadian clock running on a roughly 24-hour cycle. This clock evolved so organisms could adapt to Earth's daily rotation, syncing their biology to the pattern ...
Medical Xpress / How high cholesterol dismantles the liver's defenses—and how a new drug could combat it
Cholesterol-related heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, and while doctors have more tools than ever to treat it, many patients still can't achieve safe cholesterol levels or can't tolerate the side ...
Medical Xpress / Robust colorectal cancer signature identified in large-scale microbiome study
Researchers have long suspected that the gut microbiome—the community of bacteria and other microorganisms living in the intestine—is closely linked to colorectal cancer. In a new study published in Cell Host & Microbe, an ...
Medical Xpress / Early immune clues that determine who develops TB may lead to new ways to intervene earlier and stop the disease
A quarter of the global population is estimated to have been infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, yet only 5%–10% of those infected go on to develop active tuberculosis (TB). "The big question has always been what distinguishes ...
Medical Xpress / Immunotherapy may temporarily restore fertility in patients of premature menopause
A pilot study from Karolinska Institutet shows that immunotherapy may enable the stimulation of egg maturation in women with autoimmune POI (premature ovarian insufficiency)—a condition that usually leads to infertility. ...
Medical Xpress / Dementia could cost US $818 billion in 2026, with unpaid care driving burden
A new USC-led study finds Alzheimer's disease and related dementias will cost the United States an estimated $818 billion this year, driven largely by often-overlooked costs to persons living with dementia and family and ...
Medical Xpress / COVID-19 vaccine study that was blocked from CDC journal is published elsewhere
A study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has finally been published after being blocked from a government health journal.
