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Medical Xpress / Rising complexity in pediatric patients is reshaping hospital care

A new national analysis shows that over the past two decades, inpatient care for children with complex chronic conditions (CCCs) has become far more intensive—and is now overwhelmingly concentrated in urban teaching children's ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Pediatrics
Phys.org / New discoveries reveal Tell Abraq's role in ancient Persian Gulf trade

If there were a place that could be called the archaeological almanac of Saudi Arabian culture, it would be Tell Abraq, located on the west coast of the United Arab Emirates. This area contains traces of every cultural phase ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Another cancer patient achieves HIV remission after stem cell transplant

Details of a 60-year-old male individual from Germany who achieved sustained HIV remission after a stem cell transplant, the seventh-known case reported to date, are published in Nature this week.

Dec 2, 2025 in Genetics
Phys.org / Searching for landslide clues in seismic signals from Alaska's Barry Arm

Since 2020, the Barry Landslide in Alaska's Prince William Sound has been outfitted with instruments monitoring seismic signals from the area, as researchers hope to catch a destructive, tsunami-generating landslide before ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Bipolar planetary nebula reveals rare open cluster association

By analyzing the data from the SuperCOSMOS Hα Survey (SHS) and from the Gaia satellite, astronomers have inspected a bipolar planetary nebula designated PHR J1724-3859. Results of the study, published Nov. 19 on the arXiv ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Cancer-promoting DNA circles hitchhike on chromosomes to spread to daughter cells

Small, cancer-associated DNA circles "hitchhike" on chromosomes during cell division to spread efficiently to daughter cells by co-opting a process used to maintain cellular identity through generations, Stanford Medicine-led ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Single dose RSV vaccine protection found to wane over 18 months

Research led by the Veterans Affairs Portland Health Care System in Portland, Oregon, found that a single dose of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine reduced RSV infections and RSV-related emergency visits, hospitalizations, ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Gerontology & Geriatrics
Medical Xpress / Switching risk and protective alleles improves Alzheimer's-disease-like signatures and disruptions in mice

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the progressive degradation of brain cells, as well as an associated decline in memory and other mental functions. Earlier research found that different ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Genetics
Phys.org / Genome advancement puts better Wagyu marbling on the menu

Researchers from the University of Adelaide's Davies Livestock Research Center (DLRC) have described the most complete cattle genome yet, in a study that will lead to improvements in Wagyu breeding and result in better beef ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Blocking Claudin-4 protein may help immune system fight aggressive ovarian cancer

Scientists at The University of Texas at El Paso have found a promising new target in the fight against high-grade serous carcinoma, an aggressive form of ovarian cancer. Less than 50% of women survive five years after diagnosis, ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Urban sprawl could deny 220 million people access to clean water by 2050

A new study analyzing more than 100 cities across Asia, Africa, and Latin America has quantified the stark consequences of urban sprawl on water and sanitation access, finding that how cities grow might determine whether ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Crop pests can develop 'fighter-jet wings' after eating specific mix of corn

Eating a blend of non-toxic corn and genetically modified toxic corn can result in corn earworm pests (Helicoverpa zea) developing longer, more narrow and more tapered wings—shaped like the wings of a fighter jet—that ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Biology