Seven common habits that could be harming your kidneys
In the UK, more than 10% of the population is estimated to have some stage of chronic kidney disease and more than 600,000 people develop some form of acute kidney injury – when…
Siamese twins are successfully separated after surgery in Brazil.
Conjoined twins Kiraz and Aruna, aged 1 year and 6 months, were successfully separated after a highly complex surgery lasting more than 15 hours. The procedure took place this Saturday (May 11) at…
Bioprinted Spinal Discs Offer Hope for Back Pain
University of Manchester scientists have successfully pioneered a way to create functioning human spinal discs, aiming to revolutionise our understanding of back pain and disc degeneration in a leap for medical science. The…
Evaluating smallpox vaccine to prevent mpox.
In recent years, the world has seen a rise in new and deadly infectious diseases, posing a significant threat to global health. Outbreaks of COVID-19, H1N1 (swine flu), Ebola, Zika, and mpox highlight…
Diagnosing chronic pain using AI and gut bacteria
McGill University researchers, in collaboration with colleagues in Israel and Ireland, have developed AI technology that can detect patterns in gut bacteria to identify complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) with remarkable accuracy, potentially…
AI could improve early detection of breast cancer
A new study led by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) could help detect breast cancers that develop between routine screenings before they become more advanced and…
Study reveals new therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s
Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have identified a crucial link between glucose metabolism in glia cells – fundamental components of the nervous system – and the degeneration processes caused by Alzheimer’s. Using fruit…
New way to treat high blood pressure and aortic aneurysms.
Oxidative stress can occur when our cells are exposed over time to harmful molecules called “reactive oxygen species.” These reactive oxygen species can damage cells and are present in critical disease states, such…
Pancreatic cancer: AI identifies promising combinations
Pancreatic cancer is known for its deadly silence: it grows hidden, resists most treatments, and is usually discovered too late. But a new international study published in Nature Communications offers hope by using…
Donor hearts travel farther with machine perfusion.
In places like Australia, where metropolitan areas are separated by an entire continent, donor hearts used to go unused simply because transplant teams couldn’t get the organ to a recipient in time. “If…