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Medical Xpress / Behind pro wrestling's spectacle lies a deadly toll few fans ever see coming

Professional wrestlers die nearly three years earlier than people of the same age and sex, new research from Macquarie University shows. The findings are published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The ...

Apr 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / Brain support cells form a previously unknown network

Cells long thought to play a secondary role in brain function build their own far-reaching connections, according to a new study in mice. These pathways appear to connect distant regions in ways that had not been mapped before. ...

Apr 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / COVID-19 may leave placental damage, but virus disappears after maternal recovery

A new Yale study published in JAMA Network Open finds that the virus that causes COVID-19 does not linger in placental tissue weeks to months after a pregnant woman recovers from infection—offering important reassurance for ...

Apr 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / Bat coronavirus reveals a new way into human cells, widening the map of future spillover risks

An international team of researchers has identified an East African bat coronavirus capable of entering human cells. While the virus—Cardioderma cor coronavirus (CcCoV) KY43, or CcCoV-KY43—can bind to a cell receptor found ...

Apr 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / Hearing restoration lasts years after gene therapy for inherited deafness, new trial results show

A new international study co-led by investigators from Mass General Brigham and the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University shows that a gene therapy for a rare form of genetic deafness successfully restored hearing in most ...

Apr 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / ADHD treatment despite a history of psychosis: Research finds no increased risk of relapse

People with a history of psychosis often also have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, treating this condition presents doctors with a clinical dilemma: Psychostimulants are considered effective for ...

Apr 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / Tourette's tics are not just motor misfires—an emotion-linked brain circuit may open a new treatment frontier

While tics have been considered to result from an aberrant function of the brain's motor cortex, a Kobe University mouse study has now discovered a connection to the brain's emotional functions. The result promises a new ...

Apr 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / Low-dose triple-pill cuts risk of recurrent stroke by about 40%, global trial shows

Treatment with GMRx2, a single pill combination of three low-dose blood pressure medicines, significantly reduced the risk of another stroke in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage and high blood pressure. Results from ...

Apr 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / Microfluidic chip reveals how living glioblastoma slices resist chemotherapy

Combining microchip engineering techniques with cutting-edge gene profiling, scientists at Columbia University have developed a new way to study drug responses in living slices of human brain tumor cells. The system, using ...

Apr 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / A hidden DNA region helps drive frailty, exposing brain and immune links that reshape aging risk

Researchers at McMaster University have identified, for the first time, a novel region of DNA and two associated genes connected to frailty, offering neurological and immune-related insights that might help explain why some ...

Apr 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / New clues to hepatitis B species restriction could help build a novel model for studying infection

Some 254 million people live with a chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection that is often asymptomatic for decades, only to emerge in an advanced stage of disease that turns to fatal cirrhosis or liver cancer in nearly a million ...

Apr 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / Fixed or flexible? Study shows vision-related neurons can rapidly switch codes

For many years, a dominant view in neuroscience was that neurons in the inferotemporal (IT) cortex—a critical center in the brain for the recognition of objects—represent the world through fixed tuning functions. Doris Tsao ...

Apr 22, 2026