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Research led by the Royal Women’s Hospital, Australia, has found that early intratracheal administration of budesonide mixed with surfactant may have little to no effect on improving survival free of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in extremely […]

Recent advances in bladder cancer treatments may offer hope of curative care to more patients, including those with high-risk localized, muscle-invasive disease, according to an editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine.This post […]

A team of medical and environmental researchers at the Medical School of Yan’an University, working with a colleague from Yan’an University Affiliated Hospital, has found a link between spontaneous miscarriages and exposure of pregnant people […]

Vaccines that prevent smallpox and mpox come in two varieties. One uses a single shot of a live virus but carries the risk of serious side effects; the other, which is newer and made with […]

Researchers at City of Hope now understand why taking an investigational white button mushroom supplement shows promise in slowing and even preventing prostate cancer from spreading among men who joined a phase 2 clinical trial […]

Research by scientists at the University of Sydney has identified a constituent in the cannabis plant that improves sleep. Their report is the first to use objective measures to show the component, known as cannabinol […]

Immune cells are capable of detecting infections just like a sniffer dog, using special sensors known as Toll-like receptors, or TLRs for short. But what signals activate TLRs, and what is the relationship between the […]

The global consumption of psychiatric medication is increasing by 4% annually, with the greatest increase observed in antidepressant use. For people who wish to reduce and/or stop taking medication, there are many gaps and unanswered […]

The University of Cincinnati’s Yasmin Aziz, MD, and Joseph Broderick, MD, coauthored an editorial published on Nov. 7 in the journal Neurology analyzing the current use and potential future of alternatives to traditional informed consent […]

It’s common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has discovered that cells from other parts of the body also perform a memory function, opening new pathways for […]