Photo of the setup used. Credit: G Puneeth Blood glucose is usually measured using invasive methods involving pricking small needles into the skin. But people suffering from diabetes have to…
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Collaboration across hospital system optimizes antibiotic use to improve patient care
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Houston Methodist nurses are using an adapted screening tool at the bedside to assess whether patients have true penicillin allergies, thus enabling their care teams to…
Parts of the brain that are needed to remember words identified
Graphical abstract. Credit: Brain Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcaf067 The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy,…
Osteoporosis cases are rising, but risk differs across demographics
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain While increased average life expectancy is a testament to modern medicine and public health efforts, an aging population comes with an increased presence of chronic diseases…
Chatbots show signs of anxiety, study finds
by I. Edwards Turns out, even artificial intelligence (AI) needs to take a breather sometimes. A new study suggests that chatbots like ChatGPT may get “stressed” when exposed to upsetting…
Gender gap in teenage depression is twice as large in London as in Tokyo, study finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, the study aimed to provide robust insights into adolescent mental health trajectories in two different cultural contexts by…
Combating the measles threat means examining the reasons for declining vaccination rates
Illustration of the virus which causes measles. Credit: CDC/ Allison M. Maiuri, MPH, CHES Measles was supposedly eradicated in Canada more than a quarter century ago. But today, measles is…
New AI tool visualizes a cell’s ‘social network’ to help treat cancer
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI)-based neural network can rapidly analyze and interpret millions of cells from a patient sample, predicting molecular changes in the tissue. It…
Survey shows nearly 1 in 10 unsure if they have long COVID
Credit: Ketut Subiyanto from Pexels Almost one in 10 people (9.1%) in England think they could have long COVID but aren’t sure, according to a new analysis of NHS England…
Researchers find possible link between medication and unexpected blood clots
Illustration of the hypothetical connection, based on our results, between JAK–STAT signaling, miRNAs (miR26b-5p, miR21-5p, miR15b-5p, miR103a-3p, and miR106a-5p), cyclins (Cyclin D: CCND3, and CCND1), cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs: CDKN1A, CDK2AP1,…
