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Medical Xpress / Even at low concentrations, fine particle pollution is tied to increased hospitalizations for kidney disease

A study published in the journal Scientific Reports has shown a strong correlation between the concentration of particulate matter in the air of São Paulo, Brazil—primarily emitted by vehicle fuel combustion—and kidney disease. ...

19 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Genetic link between cannabis use and psychosis could help to identify those most at risk

New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has highlighted the distinct and shared molecular pathways linking cannabis use disorder (CUD) and psychosis, offering ...

21 hours ago
Phys.org / To create change, new leaders should read the room

When Ted Lasso became the coach of last-place AFC Richmond on a popular television show, he jumped in with a can-do coaching style that ignited a team ready for change. Like Lasso, new leaders are more likely than their predecessors ...

20 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Blood pressure drug can reduce arterial stiffening

Obesity is closely intertwined with high blood pressure and diabetes, often putting patients at greater risk for either of these health conditions. It's also associated with arterial stiffening—when the walls of the artery ...

22 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Study validates accuracy of depression screening for people with chronic pain

A new study has found that a widely used depression screening questionnaire is accurate for people with and without chronic pain, debunking a common misconception that the screening inflates depression scores for people with ...

20 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Routine scans may reveal tumor aggressiveness in head and neck cancer—without additional tests

Medical imaging routinely used in cancer care may hold far more biological information than previously thought. An international study involving Umeå University guest professor Lukas Kenner shows that PET/CT scans can capture ...

22 hours ago
Phys.org / Bottom trawling is scraping oceans of wildlife

Bottom trawlers extract one-quarter of the world's fisheries catches by weight and raise significant ecological, economic and social concerns. Given that, you'd think there would be an answer to basic questions in fisheries: ...

23 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Pregnancy shows no rise in serious myasthenia gravis flare-ups, registry data suggest

For females with myasthenia gravis, pregnancy is not associated with an increased risk of serious flare-ups of the disease, or new or worsening symptoms, according to a study published in Neurology. For a small percentage ...

20 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Future cancer therapy could use immunity to clean up damaged DNA by modulating AUF1

Researchers have identified a pathway that triggers an immune response in cells with defective DNA repair. In particular, the authors of a new paper demonstrated how the downregulation of AUF1 impairs DNA repair, followed ...

23 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Patients with congenital heart defects are more likely to suffer a heart attack at an earlier age

Patients born with heart defects experience their first acute heart attack at a significantly earlier age than others. This is shown by a new national study from Lund University in Sweden. However, despite this earlier onset ...

20 hours ago
Phys.org / Largest-ever survey of physicists puts Standard Model of cosmology under scrutiny

The largest-ever survey of physicists from around the world—released today—shows a distinct lack of consensus across many of physics's most important questions, from the nature of black holes and dark matter, to the still-incomplete ...

May 12, 2026
Medical Xpress / Teen depression linked with higher substance use rates

Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adolescents experienced depression between 2021 and 2023, and those teens were significantly more likely to use substances such as alcohol, marijuana and opioids, according to a new national study.

23 hours ago