Category: 6. Health

While targeted radiation can be an effective treatment for brain tumors, subsequent potential necrosis of the treated areas can be hard to distinguish from the tumors on a standard MRI. A new study published today led by a York…

Abstinent smokers experience increased pain sensitivity during withdrawal, to the point that they often require more pain relief after surgery. Why? New from JNeurosci, Zhijie Lu, from Fudan University Minhang…

A team of physicians specializing in genetics and neurology discovered that mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are closely linked to mutations in the GRIN2A gene. The scientists mantain that identifying this genetic risk factor opens up the…

A prospective cohort study of 298 individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) has found that longitudinal increases in plasma phosphorylated tau 217 (pTau217) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) are strongly associated with…

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…