4,000 steps linked to lower mortality in older women
A large study shows that even brief, irregular walking patterns, such as a few active days a week,…
How Many Years Not Being Rich Takes Off Your Life
There’s nothing more that most people want than to be rich, or at least be at a place…
The impact of carbapenem-resistant infections in intensive care units: focus on non-fermenting gram-negative bacilli and survival analysis | Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
Study setting We conducted an observational cohort study derived from an ongoing, prospective, multicenter surveillance network REA-REZO of…
MRI age clocks reveal how each organ ages differently and predict who develops disease or lives longer
By decoding age gaps across the brain, heart, liver, and more, scientists show that no two organs grow…
Children with multiple long-term conditions face nearly threefold higher COVID-19 mortality
Individuals with multiple long-term conditions are two and a half times more likely to die following COVID-19 infection…
Global drug addiction mortality rates double despite fewer new cases
Despite fewer new addiction cases worldwide, a sweeping analysis finds drug-related deaths surging, exposing critical failures in global…
Understanding sex and gender disparities in COVID-19 mortality: a narrative review beyond biology | Biology of Sex Differences
DuBois LZ, Kaiser Trujillo A, McCarthy MM. Sex and gender: toward transforming scientific practice. Cham: Springer Nature; 2025.…
Loneliness and isolation associated with higher death risk in cancer patients
Loneliness and social isolation are linked to a heightened risk of death from cancer as well as from…
Quitting smoking after cancer diagnosis sharply improves survival, study finds
Even in advanced cancer, patients who quit smoking soon after diagnosis lived longer, yet most were never offered…
Natural nasal microbes offer broad-spectrum antiviral protection
Respiratory viral diseases pose severe threats to animal health and global food security, especially in intensive pig farming…
Combined impact of nutritional and inflammatory status and depressive symptoms on mortality following hysterectomy | BMC Women’s Health
Hammer A, Rositch AF, Kahlert J, Gravitt PE, Blaakaer J, Søgaard M. Global epidemiology of hysterectomy: possible impact…
Genetic risk scores fail to predict survival after diagnosis
New research across seven global biobanks shows that the DNA driving disease onset does not determine survival; instead,…