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Medical Xpress / High-resolution atlas of developing human brain combines data from nearly 200 studies and 30 million cells

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and colleagues throughout the world ...

Mar 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Frequent social media use could impact child development

Regular social media use across early adolescence is related to worse reading and vocabulary development over time, according to new research from the University of Georgia. The findings are published in the Journal of Research ...

Mar 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Clinical trial finds hormone patches to be effective for locally advanced prostate cancer

Hormone patches are as good at controlling locally advanced prostate cancer as the injections typically used to deliver hormone therapy, according to the results of a large clinical trial led by UCL (University College London) ...

Mar 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Brain metastasis study reveals how tumors hijack immune cells

A team from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) has discovered a novel way in which tumor cells alter the brain to establish themselves and spread cancer. They also demonstrate that a drug that prevents this ...

Mar 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Gone but not forgotten: How fuzzy memories improve decision‑making

You've only been in the shopping center for a few minutes, but back in the car park, you suddenly freeze. Where did I park? The memory feels gone. You guess and start to head left. Then you see the sign—"Blue Zone 1"—and ...

Mar 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Walking pace may outperform blood pressure and cholesterol in predicting mortality risk, study suggests

A new analysis of more than 400,000 UK adults has found that easy-to-collect measures of physical health, particularly how fast someone walks, can significantly improve predictions of mortality risk. This finding was especially ...

Mar 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / 'RoboGullet' realistically recreates human swallowing by simulating esophagus muscles

University College Dublin researchers have developed a robotic model of the human esophagus, transforming how swallowing disorders are studied, diagnosed and treated. Dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing, affects around 20% ...

Mar 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Cellular 'atlas' of prostate cancer opens new avenues for earlier detection

Prostate cancer affects one in five Australian men, making it the most common cancer in the country. Now, researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have produced the world's most detailed cellular "atlas" of ...

Mar 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / HPV vaccination uptake in adults shaped by knowledge and medical advice, Swiss study suggests

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection worldwide and can cause various types of cancer. Prophylactic HPV vaccination is highly effective and has been recommended in Switzerland since ...

Mar 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / AI model reads cardiac MRI scans with near expert accuracy

A Penn Medicine–led team has developed a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence system that interprets cardiac MRI scans with performance approaching expert clinicians. Trained on more than 300,000 MRI video clips from ...

Mar 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Form of infant leukemia caused by NUTM1 gene rearrangements found to be highly treatable

Despite a host of checks and balances that usually prevent harmful genetic mutations, sometimes mistakes happen, with serious consequences. Now, researchers from Japan elucidate how a common mutation underlying a common childhood ...

Mar 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / A protein may help revive exhausted T cells in cancer immunotherapy

Immunotherapy has been one of the most transformative treatments for cancer patients in recent decades, shifting the emphasis from the broad-spectrum approach of chemotherapy to prompting the immune system's boldest warriors—its ...

Mar 24, 2026