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Medical Xpress / New CDK strategies could target tumor growth by shutting down key gene activity
Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in Germany. In the search for new therapeutic approaches that target the uncontrolled growth of tumor cells, a class of enzymes known as cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) has come ...
Phys.org / Borneo forest fires spike again: Why El Niño isn't the sole culprit
Forest and land fires across Indonesia have spiked once again. News and social media in the country are flooded with images of thick plumes of smoke from Kalimantan (or Borneo)—the world's third-largest island—that are choking ...
Medical Xpress / Study finds that obesity in adolescence may be more reversible than previously thought
Obesity doesn't look the same at age 15 as it does at age 45, and Duke University School of Medicine researchers are learning why. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation showed teenagers retain a degree ...
Medical Xpress / Congo's Ebola outbreak records one of its highest weekly death tolls yet
More than 300 people died of Ebola in eastern Congo in the past week, one of the highest weekly tolls yet, government data showed Monday, as health workers struggle to catch up with an outbreak that is spreading at unprecedented ...
Medical Xpress / How well do COVID antivirals actually work? Not as well as we thought
If you're 70 or older, or 50 or older with underlying health conditions, and have tested positive for COVID, you might have been offered free or subsidized antivirals.
Medical Xpress / Could the way you walk reveal Alzheimer's years before symptoms begin?
By the time Alzheimer's disease begins affecting a person's memory, the underlying changes in the brain may have been developing for decades. That delay limits opportunities for early intervention by the time most people ...
Phys.org / As California embraces universal transitional kindergarten, the state's other child-care workers are struggling
Last spring, UC Berkeley researcher Anna Powell sat in on a Zoom call as a number of Bay Area child care center leaders discussed, with sympathy and frustration, the difficult position their businesses were in.
Medical Xpress / Aging with HIV: Global report highlights the need to prepare health systems
The Lancet HIV Commission on Aging's 2026 report highlights how profoundly the global HIV epidemic is changing.
Medical Xpress / Exploring the relationship between an age-related brain change and depression
During typical aging and Alzheimer's disease progression, higher levels of a protein called tau are associated with more depressive symptoms. In JNeurosci, Teodora Markova from Brandeis University and colleagues explore the ...
Phys.org / A forecast is not a decision: Design engineering for drought preparedness
More than 80 countries face chronic drought, yet only a third have systems in place to act before a drought arrives rather than after. The gap is costly. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, ...
Medical Xpress / The brain has its own thermostat. A study shows epilepsy may interfere with it
Doctors have long known that changes in body temperature can affect seizure activity. Fever can trigger seizures in some young children, while in rare forms of epilepsy, bathing in hot water can bring on a seizure. Raised ...
Medical Xpress / Rethinking how we define neurodegenerative diseases
On the surface, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) might seem like unrelated diseases. ALS destroys motor neurons, causing muscle ...
