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Medical Xpress / Cannabis: It's medicine if you're rich enough, a crime if you're not
In Britain, whether cannabis is treated as medicine or a crime may depend less on medical need than on the ability to pay. In 2018, the UK government changed drug policy, allowing specialist doctors to prescribe cannabis-based ...
Medical Xpress / Children with HIV are living longer but face a rising obesity risk
Advances in HIV treatment have transformed what was once a fatal diagnosis into a manageable chronic condition. Today, children living with HIV are surviving—and increasingly thriving—into adolescence and adulthood.
Medical Xpress / Pediatric surgery program cuts opioid use by 56%
A 21-element recovery program for children undergoing gastrointestinal surgery reduced opioid use during hospitalization by 56%, according to a large clinical trial led by Northwestern University and Ann & Robert H. Lurie ...
Medical Xpress / A simple X-ray measure linked to survival in lung cancer surgery patients
A new study shows that a simple measurement from routine chest X-rays can help predict survival among patients with lung cancer and breathing disorders. Researchers found that lower diaphragmatic dome height (DDH) before ...
Phys.org / Many Americans pessimistic about AI's impact—and want more regulation
As debate intensifies over data center construction and how to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), a new nationally representative survey finds that Americans are broadly pessimistic about the impact of AI and want more ...
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 ...
Medical Xpress / Magnetic brain stimulation cuts alcohol cravings in 200-person addiction trial
A storyteller with a passion for popular education. Head of one of Linköping University's strongest research environments. And a physician. Markus Heilig researches the biology of the brain in addiction, and always considers ...
Tech Xplore / GPS data reveal why pedestrians in Phnom Penh rarely walk the shortest route
Cities across the Global South are urbanizing at pace, but their built environments for walking rarely resemble ideal, tidy, and well-regulated networks. Vehicles are parked on pedestrian sidewalks, and a seemingly direct ...
Medical Xpress / Realistic 'mock' samples created to speed cervical cancer test development
A team of Rice University bioengineers has developed a new way to create highly realistic "mock" patient samples that could help accelerate the development of faster, more accessible cervical cancer screening tests for low-resource ...
Medical Xpress / Comparing AI anatomy segmentation models when ground truth is missing
As large medical imaging datasets become widely available, researchers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to extract useful information from scans that were never manually annotated. Automated "anatomy segmentation" ...
Medical Xpress / Bilingualism and sex hormones may provide a new link to brain resilience and dementia risk
Why do some people maintain good memories and have healthy brains even as they age? Research that my colleagues and I recently published in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, explored the ...
Medical Xpress / New UK drug approval pathway benefits industry over patients, argues expert
A new UK drug approval pathway, designed to speed up the availability of new medicines, benefits industry over patients and the NHS, argues an expert in The BMJ. The pathway aligns regulatory review by the Medicines and Healthcare ...
