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Medical Xpress / One in five people will develop cancer in their lifetime, report finds
New findings in a report led by the American Cancer Society (ACS) reveal an urgent picture of a growing global cancer burden and underscore the lifesaving potential of stronger prevention and equitable access to care. According ...
Medical Xpress / New model reveals how disability caregiving reshapes parents' lives over decades
Researchers are sounding the alarm on the long-term impact of caring for children with developmental disabilities in the absence of proper societal supports across the life course. A new conceptual study, published in the ...
Medical Xpress / Team discovers metabolic pathway in cell nucleus that helps cancer progress
A team at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified a novel metabolic pathway that plays a key role in enabling cancer to progress through gene activation. In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, ...
Medical Xpress / In São Paulo, Brazil, the expansion of bike lanes and parks encourages residents to cycle more
According to a study that analyzed the behavior of 1,500 São Paulo residents between 2014 and 2024, the implementation of new bike lanes, parks and other public facilities in the Brazilian city has encouraged transportation-related ...
Medical Xpress / AI-guided CRISPR uncovers oxytocin receptor as unexpected psoriasis drug target
Biohub researchers have performed what they believe is the first genome-wide CRISPR study of primary human adult skin cells, then used an AI model to mine the results for overlooked drug targets for psoriasis. They found ...
Phys.org / Study shows why comfort at home is more than a temperature issue
Feeling hot at home may seem like a simple matter of temperature or whether the air conditioning is switched on. But a new study suggests that less visible factors—from closed windows and blocked airflow to household routines ...
Medical Xpress / From maternal health to influenza rates, gaps in CDC's public health data are creating dangerous blind spots
Public health relies on data—whether it is tracking the effectiveness of a given year's flu vaccine, monitoring blood lead levels around the country or estimating the prevalence of diabetes. These data form the basis for ...
Medical Xpress / Neuron silence may predict epileptic seizures milliseconds before onset, could lead to seizure reduction device
After the storm comes the calm. But contrary to the famous proverb, the brain's neurons enter a period of calm before the neuronal storm that is an epileptic seizure. An international team of researchers has now demonstrated ...
Medical Xpress / After amyloid plaques form, tau and alpha-synuclein pathology rises in mice
The aging brain frequently harbors multiple protein pathologies that contribute to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases. But how do these problematic proteins interact with each other, and could these ...
Medical Xpress / Chromatin hubs help decide whether T cells fight chronic threats or fail
Chronic and viral infections can literally exhaust certain key cells in the immune system from a constant barrage of attacks. But a new pair of papers by scientists at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation ...
Phys.org / How AI and digital data shape our understanding of migration
When millions of people fled Ukraine following Russia's invasion in 2022, governments and humanitarian organizations used mobile phone and online platform data to track movements and identify where support was needed.
Medical Xpress / Fluoxetine, cognitive behavioral therapy, and combination beneficial for youths with anxiety disorders
For youths with anxiety disorders, similar symptom reduction is seen with fluoxetine, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and their combination, according to a study published online June 24 in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
