Contextual errors limit real-world performance of medical AI
Medical artificial intelligence is a hugely appealing concept. In theory, models can analyze vast amounts of information, recognize…
Everday diabetes medicine linked to less progression of age-related macular degeneration
Doctors have found that metformin, an everyday medicine for diabetes, is associated with less progression of age-related macular…
Rising Temperatures Are Taking a Toll on Sleep Health
There’s also the physiological effect of heat itself on our breathing. “Heat may also destabilize breathing control, increase…
Every medical journal article should include a plain language abstract
In November 2025, the Food and Drug Administration changed the warnings on package inserts for estrogen, removing references…
Study tests digital energy management tool for Long COVID
The first study to test a digital tool designed to help people with Long COVID manage their energy…
Aging brains struggle to recycle synaptic proteins
As we age, we begin to lose the connections that wire up our brains-and neuroscientists aren’t sure why. …
Novel RNA molecule may influence patient survival in certain blood cancers
In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers at the Texas A&M University Health…
Americans living longer after cancer diagnosis — Harvard Gazette
New findings on cancer survival rates offer hope for the more than 2 million Americans diagnosed each year.…
New prevention strategy can reduce deadly ovarian cancer risk by nearly 80%
A prevention strategy developed by Canadian researchers can reduce the risk of the most common and deadly form of ovarian cancer by nearly…
Regulating microglial phagocytosis through immunotherapy could slow Parkinson’s disease progression
By analyzing tissue from patients with Parkinson’s disease, and animal and cellular models of the disease, a research…
Religious faith linked to lower psychological distress during Covid-19 lockdown
Two Cambridge-led studies suggest that the psychological distress caused by lockdowns (UK) and experience of infection (US) was…
Chlamydia pneumoniae found in the eye may aggravate Alzheimer’s disease
Chlamydia pneumoniae—a common bacterium that causes pneumonia and sinus infections—can linger in the eye and brain for years…