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Medical Xpress / How does long COVID develop? New piece of the puzzle found

How long COVID develops is still largely unknown. New molecular connections are revealed in a recent study led by the Center for Individualized Infection Medicine (CiiM), which is a joint institution of the Helmholtz Center ...

Medical Xpress / Artificial lung system keeps patient alive without lungs until transplant

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.

Jan 29, 2026 in Surgery
Medical Xpress / Is everyday school life more stressful for teenagers than a global pandemic?

Lockdowns isolated teenagers from friends, disrupted their routines, and kept them at home with daily reports of bad news. So most people assume teenagers felt worse during COVID-19 lockdowns, but a Tokyo study shows the ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Brain 'hazmat' protein cleans up tau: Could it prevent dementia?

Researchers at UC San Francisco have identified a hazardous waste collector in the brain that disposes of the toxic clumps of tau protein that can lead to dementia. Neurons with more of this garbage collector, technically ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / How the brain's 'memory replay' goes wrong in Alzheimer's disease

Memory dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease may be linked to impairment in how the brain replays our recent experiences while we are resting, according to a new study in mice by University College London (UCL) scientists. The ...

Medical Xpress / Fruit fly 'Fox' neurons show how brains assign value to food

Why do we sometimes keep eating even when we're full and other times turn down food completely? Why do we crave salty things at certain times, and sweets at other times? The answers, according to new neuroscience research ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Rethinking ultrasound gel: A natural solid pad for clearer, more comfortable imaging

Ultrasonography is a noninvasive imaging technique used for real-time imaging. This versatile technique is used as a reliable diagnostic tool in various modalities. The conventional liquid gel used in ultrasonography is a ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Radiology & Imaging
Medical Xpress / New guide aims to tame the chaos of UTI care

Millions of times a year, Americans seek urgent treatment for painful, embarrassing urinary tract infections. But while they once had to go in person for testing and treatment, now they can type messages to their clinic into ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Medical economics
Medical Xpress / Sex differences in brain growth emerge in the womb, study finds

Cambridge researchers have revealed a detailed picture of how the human brain grows from mid-pregnancy through the first weeks after birth and identified that sex differences in brain growth are apparent from mid-pregnancy ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Big data make hidden genetic drivers of type 2 diabetes visible

Numerous genetic studies have identified many risk variants for type 2 diabetes (T2D)—but which genes and proteins are actually involved in the disease mechanisms? An international team led by Helmholtz Munich has now used ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Genetics
Medical Xpress / Nearly half of American adults will be obese by 2035, study warns

Nearly half of American adults—some 126 million people—will be obese within 10 years, a new study projects.

Jan 29, 2026 in Health
Medical Xpress / Immunotherapy before surgery helps shrink tumors in patients with desmoplastic melanoma

New results from a clinical trial co-led by UCLA investigators demonstrate how treating desmoplastic melanoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer, with immunotherapy before surgery can dramatically shrink or even eliminate ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Immunology