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Medical Xpress / Doomscrolling: Tips to stop the scroll, protect your mental health

"I should stop." Have you ever said those words to yourself as you scrolled through one disheartening online post after another? This phenomenon is popularly known as doomscrolling. You may wonder: Why is it so difficult ...

19 hours ago
Medical Xpress / A single swab paves the way for simplified tuberculosis diagnosis

Led by researchers from Heidelberg Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University and the University of California, San Francisco (U.S.), an international team has evaluated a novel approach for the diagnosis of tuberculosis. ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / In cesarean birth, sex-specific effects occur in microbiota

The effects of cesarean delivery on the newborn microbiota appear to vary according to sex. A research team coordinated by INRAE has demonstrated this in a mouse model, showing increased susceptibility to colonic inflammation ...

19 hours ago
Medical Xpress / MRI reveals cerebrospinal fluid shifts after mild brain injury

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have found that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) microdynamic motion shows region-specific alterations after mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). Using a specialized magnetic resonance imaging ...

19 hours ago
Phys.org / Early institutional care lowers life expectancy, study suggests

Infants who grew up in early child care institutions in the 1950s have a much shorter life expectancy than the general population, according to a long-term study of individuals in Zurich. For the first time, the study provides ...

21 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Task switching raises risk in transplant surgeries, study finds

When transplant surgeons switched between different organ types in consecutive surgeries, one-year mortality rates in patients increased by 14.8%, according to new Virginia Tech research. The findings suggest that scheduling ...

20 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Who invited whom? A new method protects privacy in online platforms

Research conducted by Dr. Sanaz Taheri Boshrooyeh, a Ph.D. graduate of Koç University, Computer Science and Engineering Program, together with Prof. Dr. Alptekin Küpçü and Prof. Dr. Öznur Özkasap, has led to the development ...

20 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Higher tubular phosphate levels linked to faster five-year kidney decline

Excessive phosphate loading within the proximal tubular lumen has been proposed as a key mechanism driving progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) through calcium phosphate microcrystallopathy. Researchers at the University ...

20 hours ago
Phys.org / Frozen-in gravity: A new way to understand the evolution of spacetime dynamics

The concept of spacetime, first described in Einstein's theory of general relativity, has since been widely studied by many physicists worldwide. Spacetime is described mathematically as a four-dimensional (4D) continuum ...

Apr 30, 2026
Medical Xpress / ALS may stem partly from failed protein cleanup in motor neurons

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that causes the progressive loss of motor neurons, which in most cases leads to respiratory failure within three to five years after diagnosis. In this context, ...

22 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Rare myocarditis after mRNA vaccination: Mitochondrial stress identified as a key factor

Myocarditis is recognized as a rare but serious adverse reaction to messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccination against COVID-19. Researchers at University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that mRNA vaccination induces the generation of ...

21 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Q&A: Why feeling sick may be important for surviving infection

Symptoms such as fatigue, loss of appetite, altered sleep, and social withdrawal are often treated as inconvenient side effects of infection. While some scientists have suggested that they may serve a protective function, ...

21 hours ago