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Medical Xpress / Why glaucoma risk may be missed by day: Nighttime eye-pressure pathway revealed

Glaucoma is an eye disease that causes progressive damage to the optic nerve, leading to vision loss. One major risk factor is an increase in intraocular pressure (IOP), or pressure inside the eye. This pressure fluctuates ...

Aug 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Loneliness rewires the brain to drive alcohol use, preclinical study finds

Loneliness can reprogram the brain in ways that increase alcohol consumption, according to a new preclinical study led by Northwestern University and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The scientists identified, for ...

Aug 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / AI helps identify regulatory hub for aging in hematopoietic stem cells

Stem cells possess the unique ability to self-renew and transform into different types of cells. For example, rare hematopoietic stem cells found in bone marrow can become any type of blood cell. Throughout life, they can ...

Aug 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Removing immune 'brake' improves CAR T-cell therapy for pediatric bone cancer

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered that removing the gene for Regnase-1 from engineered immune cells makes them more effective at treating relapsed osteosarcoma. There is a great clinical ...

Aug 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Additional transfusion risk emerges for patients with tick-borne alpha-gal syndrome, beyond meat allergy

A new multi-institutional study led by researchers at Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth suggests that alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne disease that can result in a chronic allergy to meat and animal ...

Aug 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Mucus-coated tumor spheres reveal potential targets to curb colorectal cancer spread

Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland and Gustave Roussy Institute in France have discovered a molecular mechanism that regulates whether cells in an aggressive colorectal cancer are conventional or inverted ...

Aug 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / A painless punch with a microneedle patch could detect kidney disease earlier

Kidney disease is silent in its early stages, progressing without symptoms until the disease is advanced. Researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, in collaboration with researchers ...

Aug 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Biodegradable 3D-printed gastric stent with lattice design could eliminate repeat procedures

Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi have developed BRIDGE (Biodegradable aRchitected Internal DrainaGE), a biodegradable, 3D-printed gastric stent that could improve treatment for gastric leaks, a serious complication following ...

Aug 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / At least 1 in 4 former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had CTE, study finds

In a new study from Mass General Brigham, Boston University (BU), and the Concussion & CTE Foundation, researchers found evidence that at least one in four former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had chronic traumatic ...

Aug 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / New oral nanomedicine boosts effectiveness of cancer immunotherapies

Immune checkpoint blockade is a form of cancer treatment that works by releasing the natural brakes on the immune system, allowing T cells to find and destroy cancer cells. Although it has transformed cancer immunotherapy, ...

Aug 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Deep sleep brain waves offer protection against Alzheimer's disease, new research shows

Poor sleep quality has been linked to cognitive decline, neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's disease in older adults. A new international study led by Concordia researchers and published in the journal Neurology shows that ...

Aug 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Bladder cancer detected up to five years before diagnosis—thanks to AI

Bladder cancer claims 220,000 lives globally each year, with symptoms sometimes mistaken for other conditions such as kidney stones. Now researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can identify bladder ...

Aug 25, 2026