Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People who are given a vaccine for shingles have a 23% lower risk of cardiovascular events, including stroke, heart failure, and coronary heart disease, according to…
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Health assessment tool gauges body’s biological age better than current methods
The Health Octo Tool is comprised of eight components designed to assess multidimensional health. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58819-x A novel health-assessment tool uses eight metrics derived from a…
Is it dangerous to kiss someone who’s eaten gluten if you have celiac disease?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Celiac disease is not a food allergy or intolerance. It’s an autoimmune disease that makes the body attack the small intestine if gluten (found in wheat,…
ED visits for asthma spiked during 2023 Canadian wildfires, study finds
Credit: Pixabay from Pexels New research in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found an increase in asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits across Ontario following heavy smoke in early June 2023.…
New radiotherapy technique aims to protect the heart during lung cancer treatment
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study presented at ESTRO 2025 introduces the RAPID-RT study, which uses an innovative rapid-learning approach to evaluate the impact of treatment modifications in radiotherapy.…
A comprehensive look at what happens in the brain when we’re reading
(a) The functional reading network (n = 163) across all experiments, with contributions of the cerebellum. (b) The functional reading network for individual processing levels, including the main effect of letters (n = 7),…
How does consciousness work? Dueling scientists test two big theories but find no winner
Credit: cdd20 / Unsplash “Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes said. “Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.” It’s a joke, but when it comes to…
Two decades of research lead to treatment for rare, painful skin condition
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Patients with severe dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, or EB, have skin so fragile, the slightest touch can lead to blistering and, eventually, large, open wounds that never…
Two-week radiotherapy proven as safe and effective as eight-week course for prostate cancer: 10-year follow-up
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men worldwide, accounting for more than 1.4 million new cases each year. For many patients, radiotherapy is…
CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years
A flu vaccine is displayed at a pharmacy in New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File More U.S. children have died this flu season than…
