Day May 9, 2026

Credit: Kampus Production from Pexels Raising children to have a good relationship with food and their bodies is one of the best ways to promote good self-esteem and protect them from developing disordered eating. But this can be tricky if…

A major clinical trial has found that real-time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) significantly improves blood glucose management in adults living with type 2 diabetes who are treated with basal insulin. Researchers carried out the FreeDM2 trial, which compared the effectiveness…

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With few exceptions, birth rates are falling worldwide. What does this mean? Put simply, the fertility rate describes the average number of children a woman is expected to have over the course of her life, if exposed to the rates…

Credit: Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences Glioblastoma, the most aggressive malignant brain tumor in adults, is not an isolated lesion, but a disease that destabilizes the brain’s communication network. A new study published in the journal Cancers shows that…

Graphical abstract. Credit: iScience (2026). DOI: 10.1016 A team of researchers from Brown University Health and Brown University has uncovered an important clue in the fight against glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer in adults. The…

Credit: Anna Tarazevich from Pexels Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), long known as chronic fatigue syndrome, is now recognized as a complex, multi-system disease. However, it remains a medical enigma whose underlying causes are poorly understood, leaving those affected with few effective…

Credit: ????? ? from Pexels A combination blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely prevented or cured type 1 diabetes in mice in a study by Stanford Medicine researchers. Type 1 diabetes arises…

Study overview. Credit: Nature Communications (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71758-5 New clues from genetic research may help explain what causes the most common heart defect present at birth. Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Karolinska Institutet have identified rare DNA…

Researchers identify new molecular pathways involved in cardiovascular disease. Credit: IMGMIDI, Pixabay (CC0, creativecommons.org) A study conducted in an Indian population has identified new molecular pathways that contribute to cardiovascular disease, which had not been reported previously in studies of…

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that gene analysis of breast cancer tumors can identify patients who do not benefit from chemotherapy given before surgery. The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, could in the long term contribute…

Treatment with the investigational next-generation KRAS-G12C inhibitor elisrasib led to clinical benefit in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors harbored a KRAS G12C mutation and whose disease progressed after prior therapies, according to…