In the four months since he began serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made many public statements about vaccines that…
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Digital protocol links brain connectivity changes to improved mood and lower inflammation
Association between brain plasticity, peripheral inflammation, and psychological state. Credit: npj Digital Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41746-025-01765-1 Research shows RMPY-008 delivers a structured digital protocol that combines evidence-based psychological interventions with…
AI in health care needs patient-centered regulation to avoid discrimination, say experts
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new commentary published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine warns that current risk-based regulatory approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) in health care…
Grip Strength Reveals Brain Clues Behind Early Psychosis
Summary: Psychosis may start not with hallucinations, but with subtle motor changes like reduced grip strength. A new study reveals that lower grip strength in people with early psychosis is…
A preservative removed from childhood vaccines 20 years ago is still causing controversy today − a drug safety expert explains
An expert committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines is meeting for the first time since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly replaced the…
Gene therapy may slow loss of motor function in ALS
Capsid selection and AAV-miAtxn2-mediated reduction of ataxin-2 in target cells. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60497-8 Researchers have developed a gene therapy that significantly slowed motor function loss in preclinical…
Philly psychology students map out local landmarks and hidden destinations where they feel happiest
What makes you happy? Perhaps a good night’s sleep, or a wonderful meal with friends? I am the director of the Happiness Lab at Drexel University, where I also teach…
More than half of US teens have had at least one cavity, but fluoride programs in schools help prevent them – new research
Programs delivering fluoride varnish in schools significantly reduce cavities in children. That is a key finding of our recently published study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Fluoride varnish…
Researchers capture first signs of ovarian cancer risk
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Little is known about what causes ovarian cancer, and there is no way to detect it early yet. About 75% of the time when someone is…
Emotional demands and confrontation in person-contact roles linked to heightened type 2 diabetes risk
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The emotional demands and confrontation inherent in person-contact roles, involving direct face-to-face or voice-to-voice interaction with external parties, are linked to a heightened risk of type…
