Category: 6. Health

New evidence from a six-country study led by the Montreal Children’s Hospital and Children’s National Hospital shows simple blood and urine tests could spare many young infants with fevers from more invasive procedures.

A simple…

When I worked on the latest Global Burden of Disease cancer study, a global project that tracks cancer patterns and deaths across countries, I found myself pausing as the numbers loaded on the screen. Even as a scientist used to large…

New York, NY (December 8, 2025) – A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has uncovered why children with the same leukemia-causing gene mutation can have dramatically different…

Immunotherapy for sepsis is effective when doctors tailor the treatment precisely to the patient’s immune system condition. While earlier research showed little benefit of immunotherapy in sepsis, a new study demonstrates that a…

Serious side effects, including neurotoxicity and intestinal inflammation, that appear weeks or months after patients receive CAR T cell therapy for multiple myeloma share a common immune root cause, are associated with high rates…

Introduction

CSR is a degenerative condition of the cervical spine characterized by lateral disc herniation, facet joint degeneration, osteophyte formation, and other factors leading to nerve root compression. This compression manifests as…

Scientific publisher Springer Nature has begun to retract dozens of papers that relied on a dataset fraught with ethical and reliability concerns, The Transmitter has learned. Five papers have been retracted since 16 November, and 33…

We next investigated whether the optogenetically enhanced sound-evoked activity of a small group of cells would cause activity changes in other non-stimulated cells. During holographic optogenetic stimulation of the targeted cells, the…

Simon Fraser University researchers are laying the groundwork for an innovative long-term care model that combines nature-based therapy with village-setting care to enhance the quality of life for people living with dementia.

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