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Medical Xpress / New TrumpRx site aims to cut drug costs for popular prescription drugs

The Trump administration has rolled out a new website called TrumpRx, aimed at offering consumers lower prices on certain prescription drugs. The site, launched last week, lists discounted medications from more than a dozen ...

13 hours ago in Medical economics
Medical Xpress / One in eight higher-risk drinkers reported guilt or remorse, study finds

Dr. Sharon Cox (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care) reports on a new analysis finding that 1 in 8 people who drink at increasing or higher-risk levels felt guilt or remorse after drinking in the past six months. ...

23 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Winter Olympians often compete in freezing temperatures—physiology and advances in materials science help keep them warm

The Winter Olympics and Paralympics are upon us once again. This year the games come to Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, where weather forecasts are predicting temperatures in the upper 30s to mid-40s Fahrenheit (1 to ...

Medical Xpress / Research helps drive FDA label update for primary CNS lymphoma

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute-led research helped drive an FDA label update for axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta) that removes a prior exclusion for patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma, a rare and aggressive ...

14 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / US ski resorts turn to drones to make it snow amid dire drought

Despite a barren start to Colorado's ski season, Winter Park Resort opened on Halloween and served up holiday powder. The ski area's secret is a contraption a few miles upwind of the chairlifts that looks like a meat smoker ...

17 hours ago in Earth
Medical Xpress / Video: Cardiologist discusses heart disease in women

Heart disease affects women differently than men, and understanding those differences can be lifesaving. Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist and leading expert in the field of women's heart health, says progress ...

23 hours ago in Cardiology
Medical Xpress / San Bernardino County reports first measles case since 2023 as U.S. infections continue to climb

Health officials in San Bernardino County, California, have confirmed the first case of measles in the county since 2023. The county's Department of Public Health said the case involves an unvaccinated child who was visiting ...

Phys.org / Leading AI models struggle to solve original math problems

Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the backbone of AI, but mathematicians are also turning to these tools for tasks like literature searches ...

Feb 9, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Microbial limits to phosphorus availability uncovered in karst farmlands of southern China

A research team led by Prof. Wang Kelin from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered microbial mechanisms that restrict phosphorus (P) cycling in farmland soils, revealing ...

18 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Webb unveils nature of distant ultraviolet-luminous galaxy CEERS2-588

Astronomers from the University of Tokyo in Japan and elsewhere have employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a distant ultraviolet-luminous galaxy known as CEERS2-588. Results of the observational campaign, ...

Feb 7, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / A long-lost Soviet spacecraft: AI could finally solve the mystery of Luna 9's landing site

Using an advanced machine-learning algorithm, researchers in the UK and Japan have identified several promising candidate locations for the long-lost landing site of the Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft. Publishing their results ...

Feb 9, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Third exoplanet detected in the planetary system HD 176986

Using HARPS and HARPS-N spectrographs, astronomers have observed a nearby K-type star designated HD 176986, known to host two super-Earth exoplanets. The observations resulted in the discovery of another planet in the system ...

Feb 9, 2026 in Astronomy & Space