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Most pregnancies involve weight gain outside healthy ranges with major health impacts

Around two-thirds of pregnancies have weight gain that is more or less than recommended and is associated with complications such as preterm birth, large birth weight, and admission to intensive care.

19 Nov 2025

Structured infection prevention program can save mothers’ lives in low-resource settings

A landmark multi-country clinical trial has shown that a structured, sustainable approach to infection prevention and treatment can save women's lives, cutting severe maternal infections and deaths by about one-third (32%) compared to usual care.

19 Nov 2025

Focused ultrasound can be safely used in children being treated for brain cancer

Columbia University researchers are the first to show that focused ultrasound - a non-invasive technique that uses sound waves to enhance the delivery of drugs into the brain - can be safely used in children being treated for brain cancer.

19 Nov 2025

Study reveals the long-lasting health impacts of eating disorders

The health impacts of eating disorders, such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating, are not only complex, affecting many different organ systems, but long-lasting, finds a large tracking study, published in the open access journal BMJ Medicine.

19 Nov 2025

Even minimal cigarette use significantly increases heart disease and mortality risk

Smoking even 2-5 cigarettes a day can more than double your risk of any type of heart disease and raise your risk of death from any cause by 60% compared to people who never smoked, according to new research supported by the American Heart Association's Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science and published in PLOS Medicine.

19 Nov 2025

EULAR develops new disease activity score for antiphospholipid syndrome

EULAR - The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology - has developed a new disease activity score that quantifies the level of disease activity in people with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS).

19 Nov 2025

High blood pressure in adolescence can be linked to atherosclerosis risk in middle age

A blood pressure as low as 120/80 mm Hg in adolescence can be linked to a higher risk of atherosclerosis in middle age, according to a study led from Linköping University, Sweden.

19 Nov 2025

New prognostic tool can predict transplant needs in drug-induced liver injury patients

A newly developed tool, called the DILI-Inpt prognostic score, can predict patients with drug-induced liver injury who are unlikely to survive without a liver transplant.

19 Nov 2025

Cancer cells hijack cell death enzyme to regrow after treatment

The emergence of cancer drug resistance remains one of the most pressing problems in cancer care and there is a critical need to devise approaches to mitigate it.

19 Nov 2025

Evaluating whether LIT supplementation slows cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive decline such as memory loss and behavioral disturbances that severely impair quality of life. Despite decades of research, effective disease-modifying therapies remain elusive, underscoring the urgent need for novel neuroprotective strategies.

19 Nov 2025

Unified global scoring system urgently needed for intensive care

Assessing the severity of illness in critically ill patients is a crucial task in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) worldwide.

19 Nov 2025

Current genetic screening guidelines overlook most cases of familial hypercholesterolemia

Current genetic screening guidelines fail to identify most people with an inherited condition known as familial hypercholesterolemia that can cause dangerously high cholesterol and early heart disease, a Mayo Clinic study found.

19 Nov 2025

Neoantigens-loaded DC vaccines show strong potential to overcome tumor resistance

Despite the success of immune checkpoint inhibitors in revolutionizing oncology, their benefits remain limited to a small fraction of patients.

19 Nov 2025

Expert panel recommends new antibiotic strategies for resistant Bordetella pertussis

Pertussis, or whooping cough, remains a highly contagious respiratory infection caused by Bordetella pertussis. Despite inclusion of pertussis vaccines in immunization programs since the 1970s, outbreaks have re-emerged globally due to waning immunity and bacterial evolution.

19 Nov 2025

Herbal garlic mouthwash emerges as a potential alternative to chlorhexidine

Garlic extract demonstrates antimicrobial efficacy comparable to other widely used antiseptics and disinfectants, such as chlorhexidine, according to University of Sharjah medical scientists.

19 Nov 2025

Clogged brain drains may signal early Alzheimer's risk

"Drains" in the brain, responsible for clearing toxic waste in the organ, tend to get clogged up in people who show signs of developing Alzheimer's disease, a study by researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has discovered.

19 Nov 2025

Medicine News and Research

Most pregnancies involve weight gain outside healthy ranges with major health impacts

Structured infection prevention program can save mothers’ lives in low-resource settings

Focused ultrasound can be safely used in children being treated for brain cancer

Study reveals the long-lasting health impacts of eating disorders

Even minimal cigarette use significantly increases heart disease and mortality risk

EULAR develops new disease activity score for antiphospholipid syndrome

High blood pressure in adolescence can be linked to atherosclerosis risk in middle age

New prognostic tool can predict transplant needs in drug-induced liver injury patients

Cancer cells hijack cell death enzyme to regrow after treatment

Evaluating whether LIT supplementation slows cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients

Unified global scoring system urgently needed for intensive care

Current genetic screening guidelines overlook most cases of familial hypercholesterolemia

Neoantigens-loaded DC vaccines show strong potential to overcome tumor resistance

Expert panel recommends new antibiotic strategies for resistant Bordetella pertussis

Herbal garlic mouthwash emerges as a potential alternative to chlorhexidine

Clogged brain drains may signal early Alzheimer's risk

Researchers develop new method to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria using bacteriophages

Coffee protects the brain, metabolism, and immunity at the molecular level

Blood group A linked to a higher risk of primary biliary cholangitis

Study finds low uptake of colorectal cancer testing among adults aged 45 to 49

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Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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