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Medical Xpress / Tougher laws fail to cut coercion in youth psychiatry
Coercive measures are used recurrently in inpatient child and adolescent psychiatric care but vary greatly between services and countries, according to a new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet. The results also suggest ...
Medical Xpress / Commonly prescribed medication for sleep problems raises alarm bells
Amid growing concern about the widespread off-label use of sedative medications for sleep problems, Flinders University researchers have led a world-first clinical trial examining how a commonly prescribed "sleeping pill" ...
Medical Xpress / Workout habits may protect against inherited heart problems, findings suggest
Folks who regularly exercise can lower their risk of heart attack and heart failure linked to a genetic heart condition, a new study says. People with higher levels of moderate to vigorous physical activity had lower rates ...
Medical Xpress / Short-term fasting could boost chemo response in ovarian cancer, study suggests
A simple change in meal timing may help improve outcomes for women with the most common and aggressive form of ovarian cancer, a new study suggests.
Medical Xpress / Natural birth pressure is harming new mothers' mental health
Pressure on women from antenatal classes, social media and health care professionals to have a natural birth is causing lasting psychological harm when it does not go to plan, new research shows. The University of Reading ...
Phys.org / COVID-era assistance policies may have reduced food insecurity, housing instability
In 2018, Caitlin Caspi started a five-year research project looking at how raising the minimum wage could impact nutrition-related health outcomes. Caspi is an associate professor of allied health sciences in the College ...
Medical Xpress / Gestational diabetes shares strong genetic links with type 2 diabetes
New evidence has emerged showing that diabetes developed during pregnancy is likely an early manifestation of type 2 diabetes, triggered by the stresses pregnancy places on the body. In the largest study of its kind, University ...
Medical Xpress / ChatGPT is getting remarkably good at diagnosing health problems, but doctors are still better at treatment options
A father is worried about his toddler, who has been running a fever for two days and pulling at one ear. A 65-year-old woman has been getting winded on her morning walks and feeling more fatigued than usual. Both reach for ...
Medical Xpress / Why stress can outlast the event: Dopamine tied to lingering sexual suppression in fruit fly study
Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have revealed key parts of the biochemical pathways connecting stress to sexual dysfunction. By studying Drosophila fruit flies, they showed that the neurotransmitter dopamine ...
Medical Xpress / Innovative bedside PET scanner enables real-time imaging for interventional procedures
A newly developed portable, point-of-care PET technology can image any organ, delivering high-quality results to guide interventional procedures. With real-time visual feedback, the bedside technology provides a cost-effective ...
Phys.org / JWST finds a stellar bar in the early universe that breaks all rules
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a stellar bar in GN20, a massive galaxy seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. The new paper was submitted to the preprint server arXiv on May ...
Phys.org / Could aliens ever visit Earth? An aerospace scientist unpacks the challenges of interstellar spaceflight
On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be unexplained flying objects. These file dumps were the culmination of a process that was set in motion ...
