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Medical Xpress / For dementia patients, easy access to experts may help the most

A Medicare-covered program that offers support and medical advice for caregivers of patients with dementia may bring more benefit than a costly Alzheimer's medication, research finds. UC San Francisco researchers have compared ...

Medical Xpress / Approved arrhythmia drug may slow MYC-driven lymphoma by blocking USP11 interactions

A team of researchers at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center discovered an innovative way to use a drug already approved for treating irregular heartbeat to selectively target specific functions of enzymes in lymphoma, ...

22 hours ago in Immunology
Tech Xplore / Carney scraps Canada EV sales mandate, affirms auto sector's future is electric

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday canceled a mandate for all vehicles sold in the country to be electric by 2035, while announcing major investments to support the auto industry's EV transition.

14 hours ago in Automotive
Medical Xpress / If you're pregnant and uninsured, Medicaid might be your answer

When she noticed an unusual craving for hot dogs, Matte'a Brooks suspected her body was telling her something, so she decided to take a pregnancy test. She took two just to be sure. Both were positive.

13 hours ago in Medical economics
Phys.org / Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme injury, according to new ...

Feb 4, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Novo Nordisk vows legal action to protect Wegovy pill

Novo Nordisk said Thursday it would take legal action against a US chain offering a copycat of the new pill version of its Wegovy weight-loss drug.

14 hours ago in Overweight & Obesity
Phys.org / SpaceX seeks FCC nod to build data center constellation in space

SpaceX is requesting permission to launch as many as 1 million satellites into the Earth's orbit in order to pull off Elon Musk's latest grand vision of putting data centers in space to do complex computing for artificial ...

Feb 2, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Good for the land, but what about the farmer? How Agri-Environment Schemes impact mental health in France and Ireland

Trinity research shows that depending on how schemes are designed and delivered, well-being impacts can be positive or negative. Time spent in nature and peer discussion groups are key to fostering positive well-being outcomes.

17 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Large-scale study analyzes the impact of climate on Legionnaires' disease in Catalonia

Legionella is a bacterium that occurs naturally in some aquatic environments and can proliferate in artificial installations such as pipework, cooling towers and ornamental fountains. When dispersed in the form of aerosols, ...

Phys.org / Spain, Portugal face floods and chaos after deadly new storm

Spanish rescuers on Thursday desperately searched for a woman missing after a new storm hit the Iberian peninsula while Portugal warned of a heightened flood risk after several months' worth of rain fell in a few hours.

20 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Glimpsing the quantum vacuum: Particle spin correlations offer insight into how visible matter emerges from 'nothing'

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that particles of matter emerging from energetic subatomic smashups retain a key feature of virtual particles ...

Feb 4, 2026 in Physics
Phys.org / 'Jetty McJetface': Star-shredding black hole may keep ramping up its radio jet until 2027 peak

A supermassive black hole with a case of cosmic indigestion has been burping out the remains of a shredded star for four years—and it's still going strong, new research led by a University of Oregon astrophysicist shows.

Feb 5, 2026 in Astronomy & Space