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A new study presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress finds that a 15-minute virtual reality nature scene paired with classical music reduced blood pressure more than medication alone in …
A new analysis in Nature Medicine finds that China's rapid growth in clinical trial capacity has been concentrated in elite institutions, raising questions about whether the expansion will improve equitable …
Nick Zacharopoulos, CEO of Aktina Medical, discusses his career developing radiation oncology technology, from childhood work in his father's garage to academic research at McGill University and commercial leadership.
A deep learning system developed at a single hospital has been scaled to screen more than a million patients in India, Thailand, and Australia, offering practical lessons for deploying healthcare …
A Chinese research team has developed a 0.55 mm piezoelectric microprobe that provides 360-degree intravascular optical coherence tomography imaging of small, curved blood vessels, potentially enabling assessment of plaque pathology …
A new experimental compound called CS18 can disable multiple tumor survival defenses, strengthening existing therapies and restoring drug sensitivity in resistant lung cancer cells, according to early research.
A phase 1b/2 trial published in Nature Medicine reports that first-line treatment with trastuzumab plus nivolumab, gemcitabine, and cisplatin produced encouraging clinical response rates in patients with HER2-positive unresectable biliary …
Researchers have developed a tiny paper-based battery that can be swallowed to power internal medical devices, then dissolves safely in the digestive tract after several months. The technology, tested in …
A new executive order would place National Institutes of Health grant funding under the review of a board empowered to block research deemed misaligned with the administration's agenda, according to …
An observational study links heavy consumption of eight widely used food preservatives to substantially higher rates of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, though researchers caution the findings cannot prove …
NHS data analyzed by the charity Rethink Mental Illness shows adults with severe mental illness are nearly five times more likely to die before 75 from preventable physical conditions such …
Researchers have identified the genetic basis of the AnWj blood group antigen, establishing the MAL blood group system and offering new tools to prevent rare transfusion reactions.
More than 260 million people worldwide live with asthma, and 5–10% of those cases are severe, marked by frequent exacerbations, poor lung function, and heavy reliance on corticosteroids. Underdiagnosis and …
A man with a rare form of ALS improved after receiving a gene-targeting RNA treatment, in what researchers describe as the first demonstration that such therapies can work in this …
A correspondence in The Lancet argues that guideline-recommended physical activity counselling and supervised exercise training should not be left out of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction management, citing benefits …
A Mexican patient organisation leader argues that implementation, not policy adoption, is the decisive challenge in the country's response to its heavy kidney disease burden, after chronic kidney disease was …
Researchers have identified a transmissible cancer in brown bullhead catfish, making it only the fourth known naturally spreading tumor lineage in the animal kingdom. The melanoma spreads between fish through …
A new peer-reviewed study led by Brown University is the first to compare PFAS blood levels in US military veterans with those of civilians, finding significantly higher concentrations in veterans …
Georgia Tech researchers have developed biodegradable polymer STAR particles that painlessly create micropores in the skin, enhancing topical drug absorption for conditions like eczema and psoriasis while reducing environmental and …
Authors of a Lancet Commission on Ovarian Cancer respond to new data showing that up to half of women in some jurisdictions are first diagnosed in emergency rooms, linking late …
