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Medical Xpress / People can identify faces even when features are heavily blended or altered
Humans have a remarkable ability to recognize faces despite variations in appearance. Regardless of aging, changes in weight or facial hair, or even cosmetic surgery, we can usually—but not always—identify individuals ...
Medical Xpress / Telling people to use antibiotics responsibly isn't enough. What will work instead?
Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause up to 10 million deaths each year by 2050, making it one of the most pressing global health challenges of this century. In 2021, an estimated 4.71 million deaths were associated ...
Medical Xpress / New antibody boosts immune response against blood cancers and solid cancers
In a recent preclinical study, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center developed an antibody therapy called 77A that showed an ability to overcome treatment resistance in blood cancers, such as ...
Medical Xpress / Old habits die hard: Study shows most young nicotine, cannabis users are still lighting up
Young Americans use nicotine, tobacco and cannabis in multiple ways, but smoking those items—the most dangerous method—is still involved for most users, a new University of Michigan study found.
Medical Xpress / Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not. Why is that?
In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic human tissue and was grown ...
Medical Xpress / Feds promised 'radical transparency' but are withholding rural health fund applications
Medication-delivering drones and telehealth at local libraries are among the ideas state leaders revealed in November for spending their share of a $50 billion federal rural health program.
Medical Xpress / 'Coming out' linked to increased suicide risk in sexual minority youth
For sexual minority youth, identity disclosure is associated with an increased risk for suicide intention, plan, and attempt, according to a study published online Dec. 3 in Pediatrics.
Medical Xpress / New trial shows early signs that 'off-the-shelf' CAR T-cell therapy could transform treatment of myeloma
Research presented December 8 at the American Society of Hematology Conference in Florida, has shown that a new kind of CAR T-cell therapy, which generates CAR T-cells inside the body, could offer a faster, easier and more ...
Medical Xpress / It's so hard to resist overspending at Christmas—here's how to reinforce your willpower
We often throw caution to the cold, dark wind of December when it comes to spending. The cost-of-living crisis may slip our minds amid the razzle-dazzle of Christmas. We just want a moment to enjoy ourselves, to forget about ...
Medical Xpress / 1.7 million Australians were living with migraine in 2022
Around 2.2 million Australians were living with a long-term neurological condition in 2022 with migraine the most common—affecting 77% of people with a neurological condition. Migraine disproportionately affects people ...
Medical Xpress / Why we created a phone-sized device to take blood diagnostics out of the lab into the real world
When your doctor thinks you might have an infection or an allergy, a simple blood test should give answers within hours. But for much of the world, that test can take days—or never happen at all. The problem is not usually ...
Medical Xpress / Buying a gift for a loved one with cancer? Skip the fuzzy socks and give them meals or help with laundry instead
The season of gifting is in full swing—a time when people scour the internet and shops of all kinds for items that appropriately symbolize their relationships with their loved ones.