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Medical Xpress / Influencers promoting prescription drugs on social media pose public health risks

In today's world, attention is increasingly focused on social media and its influencers, a shift reflected in the industry's rapid growth and a global market projected to surpass $32 billion. The marketing teams of pharmaceutical ...

Mar 26, 2026
Phys.org / Why cells stick differently: New clues could inform skin and inflammatory disease research

Scientists led by Sergey Troyanovsky, Ph.D., professor of Dermatology and of Cell and Developmental Biology, have uncovered new intracellular mechanisms promoting cell-cell adhesion, a process disrupted in a variety of skin ...

Mar 30, 2026
Phys.org / Dual-rail superconducting qubits generate high-fidelity logical entanglement, study finds

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical computers on some advanced tasks. These systems rely on qubits, the fundamental units of quantum information, ...

Mar 26, 2026
Phys.org / Potential disease marker, therapeutic target for cats with osteoarthritis identified

By comparing osteoarthritis pain pathways known to be active in dogs and humans to those in cats with degenerative joint disease (DJD), researchers found that elevation of a particular molecule, artemin, could serve as a ...

Mar 30, 2026
Medical Xpress / New analytical method reveals how drug combinations act in leukemia

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains one of the most difficult blood cancers to treat. Although drug combinations are often more effective than single agents, their true mechanisms of action have been poorly understood. A ...

Mar 30, 2026
Medical Xpress / Psychiatric training for family doctors aims to provide better mental health care for rural and Indigenous patients

Each year, 1 in 5 Canadians will experience a mental health issue, and about 50% will have experienced a mental Illness by age 40. For many, their first and sometimes only point of contact for medical assistance is their ...

Mar 30, 2026
Phys.org / Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics in the lab

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny pollutants, according to a University of Michigan study, published in Analytical Methods.

Mar 26, 2026
Tech Xplore / Ultralightweight sonar plus AI lets tiny drones navigate like bats

To help small aerial robots navigate in the dark and other low-visibility environments, my colleagues and I developed an ultrasound-based perception system inspired by bat echolocation.

Mar 30, 2026
Phys.org / Ancient DNA reveals earliest known dogs lived alongside Ice Age humans

The bond between humans and dogs is one of nature's most enduring partnerships, but exactly when it began has long been a mystery. Now, a new study has turned back the clock. The study, titled "Dogs were widely distributed ...

Mar 28, 2026
Medical Xpress / Single-drug treatments are giving way to combination therapy for lung cancer

Combination therapy is essentially a one-two punch at cancer—sometimes with multiple punches. For people with lung cancer, it means treating a tumor with more than one type of therapy at the same time or in sequence, often ...

Mar 30, 2026
Medical Xpress / Direct comparison shows stroke protection devices during TAVR perform alike

In the first head-to-head comparison of two devices intended to protect against stroke in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), the investigational Emboliner device performed comparably to the ...

Mar 30, 2026
Medical Xpress / Can I drive when taking medicinal cannabis? Is it safe?

Your doctor has just prescribed medicinal cannabis. You think it's helping. But you rely on your car to get to work and pick up the kids.

Mar 30, 2026