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Medical Xpress / Physician shortage in rural US has worsened since 2017, research reveals

The national shortage of primary care physicians has been a concern for years, and a new study in the Annals of Family Medicine underscores how urgent the problem is and where the biggest pain point lies: in rural parts of ...

6 hours ago in Medical economics
Phys.org / 'Quiet piggy' and other slurs: Powerful men fuel online abuse against women in politics and media

Tuesday is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the beginning of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. It's a global call to action by the United Nations to prevent and eliminate ...

8 hours ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Key immune differences in triple-negative breast cancer uncovered

Researchers at the LSU LCMC Health Cancer Center have published findings in npj Breast Cancer that shed new light on triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer.

7 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Another critical reason to prevent and control diabetes: It is a top cause of chronic kidney disease

Diabetes affects how the body uses glucose, also known as blood sugar. It can mean that there is too much sugar in the blood. This can harm people in several ways. One serious complication is chronic kidney disease. Ivan ...

7 hours ago in Diabetes
Medical Xpress / How the brain resolves visual conflict to generate conscious perception

A research group led by Prof. Zhang Peng from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed how the human brain resolves perceptual conflicts and generates conscious perception through local ...

7 hours ago in Neuroscience
Phys.org / South Africa's G20 presidency: Diplomatic victory, but a weak final declaration

US president Donald Trump's efforts to derail a successful wrap-up of the G20 summit in Johannesburg failed. Trump boycotted the meeting and the US told other countries through diplomatic channels not to sign a communiqué. ...

8 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Fishing for phages in botanical gardens

Kompetensportalen, Lucat, Lupin, Lubas and LUCRIS. Those are the names of some of Lund University's administrative systems. They are now also the names of five new bacteriophages that have recently been discovered in the ...

8 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Why hosting the UN climate summit in the Amazon was so important, despite the disappointing outcome

Extreme heat, fires and flooding—all hallmark consequences of climate change—directly influenced this year's UN climate change conference COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

8 hours ago in Earth
Medical Xpress / Metabolism, not just weight, improved when older adults reduced ultra-processed food intake

A controlled feeding study out of South Dakota State University shows that older adults who ate fewer ultra-processed foods naturally consumed fewer calories, lost weight and abdominal fat, and showed improvements in insulin, ...

7 hours ago in Overweight & Obesity
Medical Xpress / Polyamines promote regeneration in aged intestines, study finds

The intestine is among the most regenerative tissues in the body; however, aging triggers various changes that collectively diminish its regenerative capacity.

8 hours ago in Gerontology & Geriatrics
Medical Xpress / Complaints about gaps in Medicare Advantage networks are common: Federal enforcement is rare

Along with the occasional aches and pains, growing older can bring surprise setbacks and serious diseases. Longtime relationships with doctors people trust often make even bad news more tolerable. Losing that support—especially ...

2 hours ago in Health
Medical Xpress / Inquiry says COVID lockdowns could have been avoided. They're right

The UK was one of the most locked-down countries in the world during the COVID pandemic, but this was not inevitable—it was a failure of public health policy.