Prescription stimulants, such as Ritalin and Adderall, are widely used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), including in children.

26 Dec 2025

Pediatric surgeons weigh AI benefits against ethical challenges and practical barriers

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly advancing across modern healthcare, yet its role in pediatric surgery remains limited and ethically complex.

26 Dec 2025

NSLLMs: Bridging neuroscience and LLMs for efficient, interpretable AI systems

Large language models (LLMs) have become crucial tools in the pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI).

26 Dec 2025

AI model may help make liposuction safer

A newly developed artificial intelligence (AI) model is highly accurate in predicting blood loss in patients undergoing high-volume liposuction, reports a study in the January issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

26 Dec 2025

Restoring brain energy balance reverses Alzheimer’s disease in mouse models

For over a century, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been considered irreversible. Consequently, research has focused on disease prevention or slowing, rather than recovery.

23 Dec 2025

Discovery of fat-regulating enzyme points to a new obesity therapy

Obesity is a global epidemic and a major cause of morbidity and mortality because it increases the risk for comorbidities, including heart disease and fatty liver disease (MASLD).

23 Dec 2025

AI analysis maps a century of global aging research

A new research paper was published in Volume 17, Issue 11 of Aging-US on November 25, 2025, titled "A natural language processing–driven map of the aging research landscape."

23 Dec 2025

Antimicrobial resistance emerges as a slow-moving global pandemic

Once a medical miracle, antibiotics are now losing their power. Across the world, common infections are becoming harder-and sometimes impossible-to treat.

23 Dec 2025

New national dataset maps how far Australians must drive to reach essential healthcare services

Researchers created a nationally consistent, publicly available dataset estimating car-based driving times and distances to key healthcare services across Australia using mesh block–level data. The dataset reveals substantial geographic variation in access, particularly in regional and remote areas, and provides a standardized foundation for future health services research.

23 Dec 2025

Neuronal master switch reshapes brain activity during learning

Memories and learning processes are based on changes in the brain's neuronal connections and, as a result, in signal transmission between neurons.

23 Dec 2025

An Arm and a Leg: A few more good things from 2025

An Arm and a Leg host Dan Weissmann breaks down how two states passed laws aimed at protecting people from things like medical debt, insurance delays and denials, and corporate profiteering.

23 Dec 2025

THC products provide small improvements in pain but carry side effects

A new systematic evidence review finds that cannabis products that carry relatively high levels of the psychoactive compound tetrahydrocannabinol, commonly known as THC, may provide short-term improvements in pain and function.

22 Dec 2025

Whole-body imaging reveals where drugs bind at single-cell resolution

When you take a drug, where in your body does it actually go? For most medications, scientists can make only educated guesses about the answer to this question.

22 Dec 2025

Digital patient records improve survival in HIV treatment clinics

With 9.5% of its population estimated to be HIV-positive in 2019, Malawi has one of the highest rates of HIV prevalence in the world.

22 Dec 2025

Rethinking Mendelian assumptions in inherited retinal degenerations

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness.

22 Dec 2025

ARB drugs lead to better blood pressure treatment adherence

Patients who start their blood pressure treatment with ARB drugs continue with the same medicine to a greater extent than patients who start out with other drugs.

22 Dec 2025

Study charts the escalating spread of resistant bacteria and fungi

The success of modern medicine rests on the ability to control infections. But decades of antibiotic overuse—in hospitals, communities, and farms—have fueled a global surge in resistant microbes.

22 Dec 2025

New research reveals a hidden source of cellular bioelectricity

Many biological processes are regulated by electricity-from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and out of cells.

19 Dec 2025

Mpox clade Ib transmitted in a healthcare setting outside Africa

Mpox is a viral disease usually transmitted from animals to humans and symptoms include fever and skin rashes. In 2023, a new variant of monkeypox virus (MPXV), called clade Ib, emerged in Kamituga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

19 Dec 2025

Federal cuts to Housing First programs could sharply increase homelessness

Eliminating federal funding for Housing First programs, initiatives that provide people experiencing homelessness (PEH) with stable housing without requiring sobriety or treatment, could lead to a sharp rise in homelessness nationwide, according to a new study published today in JAMA Health Forum.

19 Dec 2025