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Barry Kreiswirth, Ph.D., of the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI), in front of a surveillance map. Kreiswirth and colleagues at Quest Diagnostics are assessing the nationwide implications of drug-resistant strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae. Their latest work is…

Voluntary blood donation drive in Sierra Leone for World Blood Donor Day. Credit: Lifeline Nehemiah Projects An innovative community-led initiative has transformed blood donation practices in rural Sierra Leone, offering a potentially scalable blueprint to tackle critical health bottlenecks across…

Exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in many weedkillers, was linked to changes in several hormones that support pregnancy and fetal development—in one of the few studies to examine how a widely used herbicide may affect the body during pregnancy.…

A joint study by the University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital suggests that a newborn’s upper lip frenulum is unlikely to be a major cause of breastfeeding difficulties. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, followed 264 mother–infant pairs…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Australian women trying to start a family through IVF are being offered optional extras with little or no evidence that they work, new research has found. A University of Melbourne-led study analyzed data from trials, looking…

Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels A randomized clinical trial conducted across five countries in 47 pediatric emergency departments, including Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, established that both commonly used IV fluids for treating septic shock—balanced…

A new study from UTHealth Houston has found that the common sexually transmitted infection Mycoplasma genitalium, also known as MGen, does not appear to increase the risk of recurrent preterm birth. The findings are published in The American Journal of…

Credit: Towfiqu barbhuiya from Pexels A new study finds that a class of oral and intranasal medications known as gepants may be an effective and well-tolerated treatment for vestibular migraine (VM). The findings are published in the journal Otolaryngology–Head and…

ESSDAI scores over 24 weeks of treatment with leflunomide–hydroxychloroquine or placebo: (A) Mean ESSDAI corrected for baseline, indicating the treatment effect of leflunomide–hydroxychloroquine versus placebo after 8 weeks, 16 weeks, and 24 weeks. Error bars indicate SEM. (B) Within-treatment paired…

Micrograph of a plasmacytoma, the histologic correlate of multiple myeloma. H&E stain. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Patients with multiple myeloma who received a new immunotherapy combination lived significantly longer without their cancer worsening and showed early signs of improved survival…

Study demonstrates the potential of personalised assistive technologies for people with impaired hand function. Credit: Medical University of Vienna Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna, in collaboration with ETH Zurich, the Technical University of Munich and Medical Faculty Belgrade,…

(L-R) Siobhonne Breen, Dominika Fuhs, Cornelia Landersdorfer, with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a petri dish. Credit: Monash University A Monash University-led study has found that an unusual pairing of two commonly used antibiotics can kill and stop the spread of resistance…

Colorectal cancer cells expressing levels of coenzyme Q. Credit: Shah Lab, Rogel Cancer Center Scientists know that colorectal cancer cells require large amounts of iron and that as cancer becomes more aggressive, the cells have even higher amounts of iron.…

Co-expression of EGFR, C1QC, SPP1, and THBS1 in CD68+ macrophages in the TME of human CRC. Credit: Cell Death & Differentiation (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41418-026-01774-x Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna have described a mechanism in metastatic colorectal cancer that…

Credit: Anna Tarazevich from Pexels As new colorectal cancer screening guidance draws attention to the growing number of testing options, the American Gastroenterological Association urges patients and primary care providers to understand how those options compare. AGA experts emphasize that…

Immunofluorescence image of mouse colon cancer. Areas lacking GATA6 expression are LGR5-negative, indicating cells that have the potential to spread to the liver. GATA6 is shown in red, Lgr5-GFP in green and nuclei in blue. Credit: Norihiro Goto Lab Loss…

First authors of the study, from IGTP’s Biostatistics Unit. Credit: IGTP The Biostatistics Unit at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), in collaboration with researchers from several Catalan health care and research institutions, has published the DIVINE study…

People who live together share more oral and gut microbes with each other than with other people in their communities, according to a study published in Cell Press Blue. This was true regardless of the cohabitants’ relationships—siblings, parents and offspring…

The Himalayas are often seen as one of Earth’s great natural barriers, separating the heavily populated and industrialized regions of South Asia from the remote Tibetan Plateau. Credit: Pexels. The Himalayas are often seen as one of Earth’s great natural…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Some psychedelics, psychoactive substances that alter people’s mood, perceptions and mental processes, were recently found to be promising alternative treatments for some mental health disorders. The substance that has attracted the most interest so far is…

Clover Hill Dairy is recalling all of its brand cheese over possible Listeria contamination tied to a multistate outbreak that has killed one person and hospitalized eight others. The Mechanicsville, Maryland, company expanded its recall June 18 to cover every…

Pontine and thalamic DMG map to a conserved, prognostic brain network. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10631-3 A human brain network associated with survival in children with diffuse midline glioma (DMG), the deadliest childhood brain cancer, has been identified by UCL…

Credit: Image generated by the editorial team using AI for illustrative purposes. GLP-1s do not harm male hormones or fertility after long-term use, according to a study being presented Monday at ENDO 2026, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Chicago.…

Examiner-worn camera improves visibility of procedural skills during the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) assessment. Credit: Dr. Miwa Sekine, Juntendo University, Japan Assessing the clinical skills of medical students before they enter real-world patient care is a critical component of…

The proposed method will accelerate the development of organoid-based regenerative medicine. Credit: Institute of Science Tokyo Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and other intestinal disorders affect millions of people worldwide, often causing lasting damage to the lining of the gut. In…

Promising chemoimmunotherapy for ultra-rare urachal cancer. Credit: Kotani H. et al., MedComm, 2025, DOI: 10.1002 CC BY Physician-scientists at Kanazawa University have demonstrated, for the first time, the clinical efficacy of chemoimmunotherapy in patients with ultra-rare urachal cancer. Furthermore, their…

A clinical study that began in a research unit in Gqeberha (PE), Eastern Cape, has transformed global treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Furthermore, the study’s findings were published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The publication recognizes that…

Comparison between standard fine-tuning and our proposed CURA framework in clinical risk prediction. A vanilla fine-tuned clinical LM (left) may produce overconfident wrong predictions, while CURA (right) encourages high confidence only for correct decisions and assigns higher uncertainty to potentially…

Malaria cases in Mpumalanga jumped fourfold in January compared with a year earlier. In a remote South African village, Paulina Mhlongo sits in the yard as health workers in green protective gear move briskly through her home, soaking the walls…

Huts in the Androy region of Southern Madagascar offer little protection from extreme heat. Credit: Queen Mary University of London Young people from the lower-income countries most vulnerable to the effects of the climate crisis, including the toll it takes…

Credit: Vanessa Loring/Pexels A one-off training session increased how much time fathers spent with their children and on chores by about two hours a week, reports a new study from the University of Tokyo. A team in Japan provided male…

Researchers at the Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM) and the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló, led by researcher Marcileia Zanatta, have developed a new class of absorbents for the efficient capture of carbon dioxide…

Manchester is a cigarette brand manufactured in the UAE and Europe. In Australia, they are classified as an illicit “white market” product because they do not comply with plain packaging laws. Credit: Mikaela Wilkes An estimated 80% of the cigarettes…

Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels Accepting chronic pain—being willing to experience pain while maintaining valued activities—may protect against higher alcohol use severity among veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain, according to a preliminary study. More than 1 in 4 U.S.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The procedure was “remarkably” successful. That’s how Cynthia Schraf-Fletcher, 74, describes her experience with genicular artery embolization (GAE), a minimally invasive procedure that treats chronic knee pain. Nearly a year after the outpatient surgery on her…

The tank contains samples used to investigate compatibility at the gamete level. Credit: University of Eastern Finland So you have finally found the partner of your dreams—but no matter how hard you try, no children have come along. Could science…

A technician conducts research on a plant in a lab at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Credit: University of Tennessee A new study reveals the dynamics of photosynthesis at the cellular level. Led by co-authors Professor Barry Bruce and Associate…

This illustration shows (left) the major outer membrane protein (MOMP) trimer of chlamydia, with beta barrels dark gray and the antigenic cap—the dome-shaped tip of MOMP exposed on the outside of the bacterium—as a colored surface. The right image shows…

Credit: MART PRODUCTION from Pexels Strange “chimeric” RNA once thought to be the product of cancer is actually an important controller of women’s health, including influencing their susceptibility to infectious disease and autoimmune disorders, new University of Virginia School of…

Credit: The Chilean Ministry of Health Chile’s complementary set of policies targeting food products high in fat, salt and sugar plausibly reduces the risk of school-age children being overweight or having obesity, finds a study published in The Lancet. Chile…