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Medical Xpress / Can training your brain boost immune response? Vaccination study highlights power of positive thinking

Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase in the body's immune response to a vaccine. The findings from a study involving 85 participants, ...

Jan 19, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Drug used for blood disorders may aid recovery in severe malaria, study finds

A new clinical trial led by QIMR Berghofer, in collaboration with University of Sunshine Coast Clinical Trials Network has found a medication currently used for some blood disorders could help the body fight malaria more ...

Jan 19, 2026 in Medications
Medical Xpress / Certain antibiotics may may boost immune system

Research led by Lancaster University has discovered that a class of antibiotics—fluoroquinolones—can directly alter the potential bacterial killing ability of one of our immune cells called the macrophage.

Jan 20, 2026 in Medications
Medical Xpress / VO2 max: What the gold standard metric for fitness means for longevity

VO2 max, the measure of how much oxygen the body consumes during exercise, has become a ubiquitous tool for professional athletes, but health experts increasingly say it's a measurement worthy of every exerciser's attention.

Jan 20, 2026 in Health
Tech Xplore / P-type thin film can turn waste heat into power

A new material provides high-performance conversion of heat into electricity, offering a way to make electronic devices more efficient.

Phys.org / Mercury's BepiColombo Mio and Earth's GEOTAIL show shared wave frequency properties across planetary magnetospheres

An international team from Kanazawa University (Japan), Tohoku University (Japan), LPP (France), and partners has demonstrated that chorus emissions, natural electromagnetic waves long studied in Earth's magnetosphere, also ...

Jan 19, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / New details capture 13 years of wage-related laws, show increased protections for workers in the US

For more than a decade, local and state laws have been increasingly focused on providing more protection and agency to workers fighting wage theft, according to new data published on LawAtlas.org and analysis in a new article ...

Jan 20, 2026 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Cancer patients warned popular supplement may interfere with treatment

For many cancer patients, hair loss is one of the most distressing side effects of their therapy. Increasingly, they have been taking oral supplements of biotin, which are marketed to consumers for their potential to improve ...

Jan 20, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / How cities are changing social behavior in urban animals

Sealed surfaces, artificial light and constant noise: What is part of everyday life for humans poses major challenges for other animals. A new international review conducted by researchers from Bielefeld University now reveals ...

Jan 20, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / Digital media breaks can improve well-being

What effect does it have on our well-being when we put our smartphones aside for a while or otherwise disconnect from digital media? Alicia Gilbert, a research associate at the Department of Communication at Johannes Gutenberg ...

Jan 20, 2026 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Cannabis may help some communities cope with gun violence

Yasser Payne grew up in Harlem, New York, where violence was all around him. A number of his family members and friends were shot. He himself was subject to gun violence and witnessed fights. And this ever-present threat ...

Jan 20, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Inflammatory pathway reveals targetable weakness in hard-to-treat blood cancer

New research co-led by Indiana University School of Medicine scientists has exposed a vulnerability in acute myeloid leukemia by identifying the blood cancer's reliance on a specific signaling pathway involved in the body's ...

Jan 19, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer