Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New guidelines to regulate Australia’s booming cosmetic procedures industry have been called “tough” and “a crackdown” in media reports this week. On Tuesday, the Australian Health…
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Resident-to-resident aggression is common in nursing homes. Here’s how we can improve residents’ safety
Credit: Matthias Zomer from Pexels The Coroners Court of Victoria is undertaking an inquest into the deaths of eight aged care residents across six facilities, over a nine-month period in…
Single-dose CAR-T therapy potentially curative in multiple myeloma
Micrograph of a plasmacytoma, the histologic correlate of multiple myeloma. H&E stain. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 A multi-institutional study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reports…
Robot Yawns Spark Contagious Yawning in Chimps
Summary: Chimpanzees have been observed yawning and lying down after seeing a humanoid android mimic a yawning facial expression, indicating contagious yawning triggered by an artificial agent. This study is…
Conquering Nightmares and Insomnia with Science
Summary: A new workbook offers science-backed strategies to help individuals overcome chronic nightmares and insomnia. Using proven therapeutic approaches, it teaches readers how to rewrite distressing dreams and develop healthier…
Secrets to crafting the Nebra Sky Disc revealed
Using a blend of forensic material analysis with experimental archaeology, researchers have successfully reconstructed the techniques and processes behind crafting the Nebra Sky Disc. The Nebra Sky Disc is a…
Food-oriented LLM tackles data challenges to advance nutritional applications
The potential applications of the proposed food-oriented LLM FoodSky to different populations in different scenarios. Credit: Min Weiqing’s Group Researchers from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy…
Can pediatric e-consults improve access to specialty care?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There is a nationwide shortage of pediatric specialists, delaying care for many patients. In some cases, children wait weeks or even months for appointments. But now,…
How the brain distinguishes between ambiguous hypotheses
Recurrent neural dynamics can be used to navigate through locally ambiguous landmarks by forming and employing multimodal hypotheses. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01944-z When navigating a place that we’re…
US health care is rife with high costs and deep inequities, and that’s no accident – a public health historian explains how the system was shaped to serve profit and politicians
A few years ago, a student in my history of public health course asked why her mother couldn’t afford insulin without insurance, despite having a full-time job. I told her…
