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Congenital heart defects may be linked to increased cancer risk in babies and mothers

Being born with a heart defect may be associated with an increased cancer risk for babies and their moms, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association's flagship journal Circulation.

17 Mar 2025

Extreme heat linked to increased cardiovascular disease burden in Australia

Hot weather is responsible for an average of almost 50,000 years of healthy life lost to cardiovascular disease every year among people in Australia, according to research published in the European Heart Journal today (Monday).

17 Mar 2025

Uncertainty increases pain perception in the brain

When we accidentally touch something familiar, like a warm pan, our brains already know what feeling to expect and how much it might hurt.

17 Mar 2025

Scientists say NIH officials told them to scrub mRNA references on grants

National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.

17 Mar 2025

COVID-19 cut millions of healthy life years across Europe, study shows

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a staggering 16.8 million person-years of life lost across 18 European countries, with nearly 60% of those years expected to be lived without disability. The research highlights both direct COVID-19 deaths and indirect impacts like healthcare disruptions and rising non-COVID mortality.

16 Mar 2025

Open-source AI tool competes with leading proprietary models in medical diagnosis

Artificial intelligence can transform medicine in a myriad of ways, including its promise to act as a trusted diagnostic aide to busy clinicians.

14 Mar 2025

New scientific clue could unlock key cellular pathway leading to neurodegenerative diseases

In Nature Neuroscience, UConn School of Medicine researchers have revealed a new scientific clue that could unlock the key cellular pathway leading to devastating neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease, and the progressive damage to the brain's frontal and temporal lobes in frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) and the associated disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

14 Mar 2025

University of Minnesota awarded NIH grant for Alzheimer's cell therapy development

A University of Minnesota research team was recently awarded a five-year, $3.8 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to develop a new cell therapy to combat Alzheimer's disease.

14 Mar 2025

Quick CPR initiation crucial to improve survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in people experiencing a heart attack is a time-dependent medical emergency requiring immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

14 Mar 2025

Baylor study sheds light on role of CDKL1 and CDKL2 in neurodevelopmental disorders

CDKL5, one of the five members of the CDKL family of genes, is important for proper neurodevelopment and associated with seizures.

14 Mar 2025

Breakthrough peptide inhibitor effective against multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants

SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, infects cells by binding its spike protein to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors.

14 Mar 2025

Fighting cancer, inflammation and unlocking dementia diagnostics

In recognition of their discovery of one of our immune system’s foundations, physician Andrea Ablasser, virologist Glen Barber and biochemist Zhijian J. Chen will be awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2025, endowed with €120,000, in Frankfurt’s Paulskirche today.

14 Mar 2025

Computational framework protects privacy in voice-based cognitive health assessments

Digital voice recordings contain valuable information that can indicate an individual's cognitive health, offering a non-invasive and efficient method for assessment.

14 Mar 2025

Long-COVID symptoms persist for two years in over half of cases

23% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 between 2021 and 2023 developed long-COVID, and in more than half of them the symptoms persisted for two years.

14 Mar 2025

Study links inflammation pathways to changes in bone mineral density

In one of the first studies of its kind, a team of researchers from Keck School of Medicine of USC has found that proteins and pathways involved in inflammation are associated with changes in bone mineral density (BMD) over time.

14 Mar 2025

Mitochondria may hold key to reducing inflammaging in aging cells

In humans and other multicellular organisms, cells multiply. This defining feature allows embryos to grow into adulthood, and enables the healing of the many bumps, bruises and scrapes along the way.

14 Mar 2025

Bioenergetic age could predict Alzheimer's disease risk

A person's "bioenergetic age"-or how youthfully their cells generate energy-might be a key indicator of whether they're at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, new research from Weill Cornell Medicine shows.

14 Mar 2025

National survey reveals high public interest in medically tailored food programs

Researchers have conducted the first national survey on public awareness and perceptions of food, health, and Food is Medicine programs.

14 Mar 2025

Combination of RAS inhibition and immunotherapy provides breakthrough for pancreatic cancer

Adding immunotherapy to a new type of inhibitor that targets multiple forms of the cancer-causing gene mutation KRAS kept pancreatic cancer at bay in preclinical models for significantly longer than the same targeted therapy by itself, according to researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center.

14 Mar 2025

Pitt study uncovers a novel trigger of deadly form of ovarian cancer

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have identified a novel trigger of a deadly form of ovarian cancer: a subset of progenitor cells that reside in fallopian tube supportive tissue, or stroma.

14 Mar 2025

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Congenital heart defects may be linked to increased cancer risk in babies and mothers

Extreme heat linked to increased cardiovascular disease burden in Australia

Uncertainty increases pain perception in the brain

Scientists say NIH officials told them to scrub mRNA references on grants

COVID-19 cut millions of healthy life years across Europe, study shows

Open-source AI tool competes with leading proprietary models in medical diagnosis

New scientific clue could unlock key cellular pathway leading to neurodegenerative diseases

University of Minnesota awarded NIH grant for Alzheimer's cell therapy development

Quick CPR initiation crucial to improve survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Baylor study sheds light on role of CDKL1 and CDKL2 in neurodevelopmental disorders

Breakthrough peptide inhibitor effective against multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants

Fighting cancer, inflammation and unlocking dementia diagnostics

Computational framework protects privacy in voice-based cognitive health assessments

Long-COVID symptoms persist for two years in over half of cases

Study links inflammation pathways to changes in bone mineral density

Mitochondria may hold key to reducing inflammaging in aging cells

Bioenergetic age could predict Alzheimer's disease risk

National survey reveals high public interest in medically tailored food programs

Combination of RAS inhibition and immunotherapy provides breakthrough for pancreatic cancer

Pitt study uncovers a novel trigger of deadly form of ovarian cancer

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