Virginia Tech researchers are advancing a new generation of vaccines designed to block opioids from reaching the brain and triggering their addictive effects, work that could help prevent overdose ...

Living with, or being at risk of, lymphedema after breast cancer can leave many people feeling uncertain and overwhelmed. Too often, survivors must search for information on their own, sometimes too ...

Poor gut health could increase the risk of dying early or being hospitalized by almost 10% for people with heart failure, and in the first year after being admitted to hospital with heart failure, ...

The UK's first comprehensive evaluation of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in breast cancer screening found that it can increase breast cancer detection by 10.4% and has the potential to ...

Despite major advances in medicine, U.S. life expectancy barely budged in the 2010s, and it still lags that of other wealthy nations. Researchers have pointed to rising "deaths of despair"—drug ...

Wegovy, a GLP-1 agonist for weight loss, may carry the highest risk of "eye stroke" (ischemic optic neuropathy) and sudden sight loss of the semaglutide drugs, finds an analysis of unintended side ...

In a significant advancement for lab-on-chip technology, IBEC researchers in the frame of the European project BLOC, have demonstrated the first integration of a benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance ...

Women who used fertility treatments had no higher overall risk of invasive cancer than other women, a large Australian study led by researchers from UNSW Sydney has found. The study, published in JAMA ...

Researchers at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that depleting a clotting protein made by the liver could slow down pancreatic cancer. The research, ...

Serious diseases affecting the transparent part of the eye, called the cornea, are very difficult to treat because this structure lacks blood vessels and has little capacity for regeneration and ...

Climate change is widely known to affect physical health—but new research suggests the mental health toll could be enormous. A study published in The Lancet Planetary Health projects that rising ...

Despite a pressing need to improve outcomes and address inequities in nursing homes, there is limited evidence about the specific factors required to successfully implement real-world interventions in ...