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Medical Xpress / Researchers find link between higher levels of air pollution and dengue-related deaths

A research team including a Keele scientist has found that countries with higher levels of air pollution were also more likely to have higher numbers of deaths from dengue, a rapidly expanding disease spread by mosquitoes. ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Health
Medical Xpress / Infection prevention measures prove important in NICU, study shows

A new study conducted by clinician-scientists at a dozen neonatal intensive care units, or NICUs, across North America found that enhanced infection prevention measures were highly effective in reducing viral spread among ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Pediatrics
Phys.org / Will the Winter Olympics run out of snow?

When the Winter Olympics kicked off in 1924, the city of Chamonix, France, had the glacial temperatures and heavy snowfall needed to host the Games. In fact, just weeks before the games kicked off, a massive snowstorm brought ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / Fear or dread? How intensity of emotion may shape climate policy support

New research has found that we are more likely to back policies aimed at tackling climate change when we feel fearful, but feelings of dread make us less likely to support such policies.

Feb 12, 2026 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Pregnant women in Brazil unaware of their rights suffer violations in the workplace

Despite clear laws that guarantee the protection of pregnant women and new mothers in the workplace, many Brazilian women still experience a reality far from what is stipulated on paper. A study involving 652 women in the ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Obstetrics & gynaecology
Medical Xpress / Antibody-drug conjugate achieves high response rates as frontline treatment in aggressive, rare blood cancer

Seventy-five percent of patients with blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) who were treated with the antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) pivekimab sunirine (PVEK) had a complete response, according to new data from ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Shining new light on how cytokines manage immune response

Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the first time, illuminates the missing half of how the immune system uses molecules called cytokines to ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Immunology
Medical Xpress / Rallying more T-cells to immunotherapy's fight against cancer

Immune Checkpoint Blockade (ICB) has revolutionized the treatment of cancers like melanoma, but up to 60% of patients don't respond to this immunotherapy for reasons not yet fully understood. Australian scientists have found ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Immunology
Phys.org / Tiny marine animal reveals bacterial origin of animal defense mechanisms

Marine animals, such as the extremely simple flatworm Trichoplax, are ideal model organisms for studying the early evolutionary origins of animal life processes. Despite measuring only a few millimeters and lacking true organs ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Why asthma can hit women harder: Estrogen-linked IL-33 ramps up lung inflammation

Asthma affects millions of people worldwide, and adult women experience the condition more frequently—and often more severely—than men. Symptoms can also fluctuate during puberty, pregnancy and menopause, yet the biological ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Immunology
Medical Xpress / Ketamine may fight chronic fatigue, study suggests

Ketamine, a decades-old anesthetic and fast-acting treatment for severe depression, may also offer some people rapid relief from chronic fatigue, according to a small proof-of-concept study led by researchers at Rutgers Health ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Health
Phys.org / Flipping and reversing mini-proteins could improve tuberculosis treatment

Antibiotic treatments are losing effectiveness against a range of common bacterial pathogens, including E. coli, K. pneumoniae, Salmonella and Acinetobacter, according to a warning issued by the World Health Organization ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Biology