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Medical Xpress / Global evidence highlights social roots of HPV vaccine hesitancy

Decisions about the HPV vaccine among adolescents and their families are influenced by a web of social, cultural and trust-related factors, beyond simple awareness or access, a Cochrane review finds.

Nov 17, 2025 in Health
Phys.org / How friends' support protects intercultural couples

New research examines how social approval from different sources predicts relationship quality for intercultural couples. Researchers found that having supportive friends can be a powerful protective factor, especially when ...

Nov 17, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Scientists discover caves carved by water on Mars that may have once harbored life

If there is, or ever has been, life on Mars, the chances are it would exist in caves protected from the severe dust storms, extreme temperatures, and high radiation present on its surface. One place to focus our attention ...

Nov 12, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Black hole mergers could give rise to observable gravitational-wave tails

Black holes, regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are intriguing and extensively studied cosmological phenomena. Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts that when two black ...

Nov 13, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Potassium-enriched salt recommended for blood pressure control

The use of potassium-enriched salt has now been recommended by the National Hypertension Taskforce—Australia's peak body for blood pressure control—in a new position statement published in the Journal of Hypertension.

Nov 17, 2025 in Health
Medical Xpress / What polymers can teach us about curing Alzheimer's disease

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have applied ideas from polymer physics to illuminate the mechanism behind a key pathology in Alzheimer's disease, the formation of fibrils of tau proteins. They showed that ...

Medical Xpress / Unregulated and unsafe: Expert warns of risks in substance use reduction apps

In a commentary published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers at Rutgers Health, Harvard University and the University of Pittsburgh discuss the impact of unregulated mobile health and generative ...

Nov 17, 2025 in Addiction
Phys.org / Researchers call for more conversation-rich learning as AI spreads

Generative artificial intelligence could result in a renewed emphasis on conversational approaches to teaching, researchers say, as chatbots make it easier to bypass recall-based learning and test the limits of traditional ...

Nov 17, 2025 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Why aging shouldn't be classified as a disease

In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases—a global, standard-setting guideline for how institutions should understand and organize health information. ...

Nov 17, 2025 in Gerontology & Geriatrics
Medical Xpress / Scientists tie lupus to a virus nearly all of us carry

One of humanity's most ubiquitous infectious pathogens bears the blame for the chronic autoimmune condition called systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus), Stanford Medicine investigators and their colleagues have found.

Medical Xpress / Reaching the unreachable: Endoscopy technique opens route to deep lung tumors

Researchers at the University of Osaka have engineered a novel technique, balloon-assisted bronchoscope delivery (BDBD), to guide endoscopes to small, early-stage lung cancers hidden deep within the periphery of the lungs.

Nov 17, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Not all PTSD therapies keep veterans in treatment, study warns

About a quarter of U.S. service members and veterans who start psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder quit before they finish treatment. But not all therapies are equal in their appeal, with some effective approaches ...

Nov 17, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry