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Medical Xpress / No shelter, no cool-down: Why Salt Lake heat waves hit the unhoused hardest
People experiencing unsheltered homelessness often navigate a treacherous world in which the choices available to them are very limited. They do it with compelling ingenuity and deftness. But while they are functional, they ...
Medical Xpress / Millions of CT scans are done every year. Most leave important data behind
Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan—a type of imaging that creates detailed cross-sectional pictures of the body's interior—to look for pneumonia ...
Medical Xpress / Good call: Earlier reminders cut missed doctor visits
Decreasing the number of missed doctor appointments may be a relatively simple fix, according to a new study from The University of Texas at Arlington. Researchers found that when an outpatient clinic in the Rio Grande Valley ...
Medical Xpress / Experimental hookworm vaccine shows promising protection in phase 2 human trial
Researchers at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine report encouraging results from a phase 2 clinical trial evaluating a candidate vaccine ...
Tech Xplore / Swapping batteries for hydrogen gives drones a whole new range
Researchers have built a drone that runs on hydrogen, to replace battery-powered drones that are too heavy and have too short a range. This technology could help fix power outages faster and replace dangerous helicopter missions ...
Medical Xpress / Extreme heat may keep millions from exercising, linked to 500,000 early deaths yearly
A hotter world is quietly changing one of the simplest things we do for our health—moving our bodies. For many people, a walk in the park, a jog around the neighborhood or a cycle to work is becoming harder, and sometimes ...
Medical Xpress / Striking a chord: How music primes our minds for connection
When neuroscientist and musician AZA Allsop discovered research by his Yale colleague Joy Hirsch about how group drumming and musical interaction can affect social behavior, he knew there was a collaboration in their future.
Phys.org / A world‑first quantum battery charges faster when it gets bigger—but it's tiny and only lasts nanoseconds
You're late for an important appointment. Just as you are leaving your house, you realize your phone is flat. Imagine you could charge it almost instantly by exploiting the strange rules of quantum physics. That's the promise ...
Medical Xpress / Vaccines facing misinformation spike: WHO experts
Vaccine programs are being challenged by rising misinformation and an uncertain pipeline for research funding, the World Health Organization's immunization experts said Wednesday.
Phys.org / New palm tree species discovered in Colombian Amazon
Two researchers at the University of Zurich have discovered and described a new, previously unknown palm species found in the virgin forests of Colombia. In close cooperation with a local indigenous community, they mapped ...
Medical Xpress / Study identifies inflammatory immune pathway driving immunotherapy resistance in bladder cancer
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center have discovered a biological pathway that helps explain why some bladder cancers do not respond well to immunotherapy. Their ...
Phys.org / Building trust in the future of quantum computing
Quantum computers could solve certain problems that would take traditional classical computers an impractically long time to solve. At the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), researchers are now working ...
