Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Several weeks ago, I visited a local NHS urgent care center with my toddler on what might be called a semi-annual pilgrimage related to having a…
Category: Health & Medicine
For cancer patients, oncologists often have the final word
Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels For terminally ill cancer patients, the final days of life are immensely personal, having the choice to continue cancer treatments, or to stop treatments and…
Immune ‘fingerprints’ aid diagnosis of complex diseases
Immune cells (top) generate highly variable receptors by shuffling DNA segments (second panel) to recognize threats like bacteria (green in third). Identifying ‘successful’ receptors (fourth) can help diagnose complex diseases.…
Blood metabolites tied to childhood growth and cognitive milestones
Directed acyclic graph (DAG) of the association between child serum metabolome and early childhood development. Credit: eLife (2025). DOI: 10.7554/eLife.97982 McMaster University researchers have identified small molecules in the blood…
A better way to compare images taken at different institutions
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an essential tool for medical clinicians, providing detailed views of the interior of the human body as well as valuable information…
Scientists solve mystery of how the drug retinoic acid works to treat neuroblastoma
(L to R) Co-first and co-corresponding author Min Pan, Ph.D., co-first author Yinwen Zhang, Ph.D., St. Jude Department of Computational Biology, co-corresponding author John Easton, Ph.D., St. Jude Computational Biology…
Researchers urge preventing effects of traumatic experiences
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects approximately 10% of road accident participants and as many as half of people who have experienced war, and victims of rape…
Parents rush to vaccinate children after measles outbreak hits Texas
Illustration of the virus which causes measles. Credit: CDC/ Allison M. Maiuri, MPH, CHES Five-year-old Shado is one of dozens of children being rushed to a health center in the…
Critical illness is more common than expected in African hospitals, but low-cost treatments offer hope
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain One in eight patients in hospitals in Africa is critically ill, and one in five of the critically ill die within a week, according to a…
Dairy farm workers’ sleep and stress levels impacted by calving season demands
Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels Sleep is as important to humans as food and water, but it is often sacrificed to work, especially for farm workers. Dairy farming, in particular,…
