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Medical Xpress / Deep brain stimulation succeeds for 1 in 2 patients with treatment-resistant severe depression and anxiety in trial

Deep brain stimulation—implants in the brain that act as a kind of "pacemaker"—has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with treatment-resistant severe depression in an open-label trial.

Nov 18, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Long COVID can take eight different trajectories, study finds

New research led by Mass General Brigham followed more than 3,500 patients, finding that 10.3% had symptoms consistent with long COVID three months after infection, 81% of whom continued to experience persistent or intermittent ...

Medical Xpress / Chasing a winning streak: A new way to trigger responses in the body by simulating psychological pressure

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed an experimental method to induce a strong physiological response linked to psychological pressure by making participants aim for a streak of success in a task.

Nov 18, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Looking good isn't everything: Researchers assess AI method for processing medical images

Artificial intelligence has exploded in popularity in recent years, and many proponents are excited about its potential uses in medicine: for example, processing samples quickly or identifying markers of disease that may ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Radiology & Imaging
Medical Xpress / COVID-19 pandemic boosted wages for the lowest-earning health care workers, finds study

For the past several decades, the American economy has seen consistently widening wage gaps. Highly educated and specially trained workers have seen their salaries steadily rise, while less-educated workers in lower-wage ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Medical economics
Medical Xpress / AI-assisted immune profiling helps predict treatment success in rectal cancer patients

Artificial intelligence (AI) can predict how well patients with rectal cancer will respond to treatment by analyzing standard tissue samples taken during diagnosis, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and UCLH.

Nov 18, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Shingles vaccine most promising common drug to potentially prevent Alzheimer's

A new study has identified three existing medications that could be repurposed to treat or prevent Alzheimer's disease.

Nov 18, 2025 in Medications
Medical Xpress / Micropores enhance organ-on-chip models for studying hidden infections

A new study provides a powerful way to study infections in environments that closely mimic human organs. The strategy, tested in a bone-marrow-on-chip model, was developed by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global ...

Medical Xpress / Tackling chemotherapy resistance in throat cancer—a potential new pathway

A University of Sheffield researcher has uncovered new evidence that could help improve treatment options for patients with hard-to-treat throat cancer.

Nov 18, 2025 in Medications
Medical Xpress / Body's circadian rhythm may increase overnight cardiovascular risk in people with sleep apnea

New research suggests that the circadian system in people with obstructive sleep apnea may disrupt blood vessel function overnight, which may help explain the higher risk of nighttime heart attacks in people with sleep apnea.

Nov 18, 2025 in Cardiology
Medical Xpress / Boosting telomerase activity slows lung cell aging in pulmonary fibrosis study

Pulmonary fibrosis—also known in technical terms as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)—is a rare but life-threatening disease. It causes scarring of the connective tissue between the functional tissue of the lungs, leading ...

Medical Xpress / How cancer cells 'break through' tight tissue gaps

Aggressive cancer cells are masters of movement. When they spread through the body, they cause metastasis, which significantly reduces a person's chance of survival. For this spreading to take place, they can switch between ...

Nov 18, 2025 in Medical research