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Medical Xpress / New research shows primary care training improves dementia detection

As Alzheimer's disease and other dementias continue to rise nationwide, new research shows that equipping primary care providers with focused dementia training and embedding clinical decision-support tools directly into the ...

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Most severe obesity still goes untreated as GLP-1 use climbs and surgery slips

Drawing on electronic health records from nearly 20 million patients with severe obesity, researchers from University of California San Diego find that GLP-1 prescriptions have grown exponentially—from less than 4,600 prescriptions ...

19 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Minor federal fines offer little deterrence to insurers for Medicare Advantage violations, study finds

A new study from health policy researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health suggests that while regulators have several tools at their disposal to penalize insurance plans that break the rules, they rely mostly ...

18 hours ago
Phys.org / New publishing tool detects duplicate peer reviews in push against reviewer fraud

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has developed a machine-learning powered tool to help detect duplicate peer review reports, addressing a growing threat to research integrity in scholarly publishing.

18 hours ago
Phys.org / Saving chocolate while restoring rainforests? Rock dust boosts soil nutrition and supports farmers

Chocolate is the food of the gods. The name of the tree from which the confection originates, Theobroma cacao, combines the Greek words for god (theós) and food (brôma). This small evergreen tree grows in tropical forests ...

23 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Metabolic and bariatric surgery after GLP-1 treatment significantly boosts weight loss, research finds

People who begin obesity treatment with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1s) and then undergo metabolic and bariatric surgery achieve substantially greater weight loss than with the medications alone, according ...

19 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Bariatric surgery procedures fall below 200,000, first time since 2020, new research finds

The number of metabolic and bariatric surgery procedures in the United States dropped below 200,000 in 2024 for the first time since 2020, a more than 20% decline from the prior year, according to new research presented at ...

19 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Bariatric surgery slashes risk of kidney failure, heart attack and death, new data show

Metabolic and bariatric surgery, also known as weight-loss surgery, dramatically improves outcomes for patients with obesity and chronic kidney disease (CKD), significantly reducing the risk of kidney failure, major cardiovascular ...

19 hours ago
Phys.org / How the timing of corporate donations shapes consumer trust

Whether a company donates $1,000 a week for 52 weeks or gives $52,000 all at once, the total amount donated is the same. However, recent research by Alexander Park, an assistant professor of marketing at Indiana University ...

19 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Why risk perception matters for quitting smoking

Cigarettes are one of the deadliest products on the market—but the risks of alternatives are not always clearly understood. That disconnect came into sharp focus in 2019, when headlines warned of a mysterious and sometimes ...

19 hours ago
Phys.org / Physicists have measured 'negative time' in the lab

As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island. We can imagine that his wife, Penelope, would ...

May 1, 2026
Tech Xplore / After a 40-year wait, technology finally enables three-sided zipper design

In 1985, the Innovative Design Fund placed an ad in Scientific American offering up to $10,000 to support clever prototypes for clothing, home decor, and textiles. William Freeman Ph.D., then an electrical engineer at Polaroid ...

May 4, 2026