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Medical Xpress / The nocebo effect: How prior experience and verbal suggestion rewire the brain to make pain worse

Researchers have a better understanding of the nocebo effect and the neuroscience behind it all. Opposite of the better-known placebo effect, where positive expectations trigger genuine pain relief, the nocebo effect is the ...

May 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / Parkinson's symptoms trace to distinct brain circuits

Parkinson's disease is often treated as a single disorder. But for the more than 1.1 million people living with it in the United States, the disease can look different from one person to the next. Research from Carnegie Mellon ...

May 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / Immune memory cells in ovarian cancer produce tumor-targeting antibodies, opening a vaccine path

While we tend to quickly forget having been ill or having received a vaccine, the immune system remembers remarkably well. It has memory B cells—"trained" immune cells that circulate throughout the body in search of harmful ...

May 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / Whole organ 3D imaging reveals remaining insulin producing cells in type 1 diabetes

Researchers at Umeå University have conducted a unique three-dimensional mapping of an entire human pancreas. The study shows that insulin-producing cells can remain long after the onset of type 1 diabetes—a finding that ...

May 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / Magnet-guided soft robots could lead to safer treatment of life-threatening blood clots

Researchers at Concordia have developed an AI-assisted technique and a robotic platform that may one day help surgeons perform safer, faster and less invasive procedures to treat conditions such as blood clots located deep ...

May 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain tissue

A largely overlooked space between cells in women's brains may hold the key to understanding memory loss tied to estrogen decline after menopause, reports a new preclinical Northwestern Medicine study.

May 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / Inhaled fine particulate matter travels beyond the lungs to the brain, radiocarbon nanotracing reveals

Checking the fine particulate matter levels along with the weather every morning has become a daily routine. Research continues to show that fine particulate matter affects not only the respiratory system but also the brain ...

May 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / How 'Pac-Man' cells fail to prevent deadly infection risk in people with cystic fibrosis

Researchers have discovered how part of the body's immune system could better combat a leading cause of death for people with cystic fibrosis (CF). A team led by The University of Queensland's Professor Peter Sly and Dr. ...

May 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / Blocking two cancer pathways may curb medulloblastoma relapse, preclinical study suggests

For most children diagnosed with medulloblastoma, the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor, survival rates are encouraging. But for a subset, remission is not the end of the story. Roughly 30% of patients will see ...

May 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / Why 40% of people are avoiding the news, according to a psychologist

During several recent conversations, people have told me that they've stopped checking their phones in the morning. Not because nothing was happening, but because everything was. They described the feeling as standing under ...

May 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / Blood test detects early signs of breast cancer recurrence

Researchers at Lund University have developed a blood test capable of detecting signs of breast cancer recurrence long before recurrence becomes visible on imaging or causes symptoms. It has previously been shown that this ...

May 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / Tomato-soy juice lowers inflammation in adults with obesity

Drinking tomato-soy juice loaded with compounds shown in animal studies to promote health lowered pro-inflammatory proteins in healthy adults with obesity after four weeks, a new study found.

May 26, 2026