Available for over a year PCOS is one of the most common hormonal disorders affecting women globally; affecting roughly 13% of women who have a menstrual cycle. The World Health Organization has estimated that up 70% of women with PCOS worldwide do not know they have this condition. Symptoms can …

[ Credit: LinkedIn Sales Navigator from Pexels Endometriosis and uterine fibroids are two of the most common gynecological conditions. While they have important differences, they also have things in common. Both can lead to serious complications, affect fertility and have symptoms related to the menstrual cycle. And both are the …

Ellie Colton was finally diagnosed with endometriosis after years of debilitating pain. She meets a scientist developing a simple diagnostic test that could help many women. BBC News

[ Kidney transplantation remains the most effective treatment for end-stage kidney disease, yet a severe shortage of donor organs continues to limit access for millions of patients worldwide. With demand for kidney transplants expected to reach 5 million patients by 2030 and only a fraction of that need currently being …

Manufacturer Novo Nordisk says a daily tablet of the drug could be more convenient for some people than weekly injections. BBC News

[ Credit: Kampus Production from Pexels Led by Marie-Pierre Sylvestre, a professor at the School of Public Health at the Université de Montréal, the researchers drew on Quebec data from COMPASS, a pan-Canadian longitudinal study of the health behaviors of secondary school students. Published in the journal Addiction, the analysis …

The British Medical Association has announced more strike action in an ongoing dispute over pay. BBC News

[ Model Parameters: Fentanyl Consumption, Percent Concentration (Purity), and MME Equivalence. Credit: Drug and Alcohol Dependence (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2026.113224 People in Los Angeles who use illicit fentanyl regularly consume quantities of the drug equivalent to morphine doses hundreds of times higher than fentanyl doses used in hospitals. This use is …

The gut is home to around trillions of microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses and fungi. What are they all doing down there!? BBC News

New data reveals sheer scale of patients in England being treated in unsafe and undignified make-shift areas. BBC News

[ Credit: CC0 Public Domain Gestational diabetes is most commonly associated with temporary disturbances in glucose metabolism during pregnancy. However, growing evidence shows that its consequences may extend far beyond pregnancy itself—affecting a child’s health even before birth and increasing the risk of obesity, insulin resistance and diabetes later in …

[ Daniel Daneshvar, MD, Ph.D., director of the HealthSpan Lab and Chief of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Mass General Brigham, and Charlotte Luster, of the HealthSpan Lab, are the senior and lead authors of a paper published in Neuroepidemiology, “Brain Cancer Mortality following Traumatic Brain Injury …

[ California’s ranks of uninsured residents could nearly double in the next four years—to nearly 4.6 million people—because of deep federal cuts to Medicaid and dramatic changes in federal and state policy, according to a new report from the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Source link

[ A novel study among Indigenous communities in Canada utilizing sharing circles as the primary method of qualitative data collection shows that heart health is shaped by emotional, spiritual, social, and systemic factors, with trauma strongly influencing how care is accessed and trusted. Source link

[ Credit: Kindel Media from Pexels New research from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) has found that most Australians living with dementia are unlikely to qualify for voluntary assisted dying (VAD) under current laws. Lead author Prof. Kerstin Braun explored how Australian VAD laws would need to change if …

[ Every day, across thousands of American hospitals, artificial intelligence quietly shapes decisions that determine patient outcomes. An algorithm flags a patient as high risk for sepsis; a risk score informs whether a woman receives additional cancer screening; a deterioration model triggers an alert that sends a care team to …

[ If you regularly drink soda or other sugary beverages, a new study may give you a reason to cut back. Researchers analyzed dietary data from more than 1.5 million adults across 11 long-term investigations. They wanted to find out whether drinking sugar-sweetened or artificially sweetened beverages was associated with …

[ For adults with obesity without diabetes, once-weekly survodutide, an investigational glucagon receptor-glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor dual agonist, is associated with greater reductions in body weight than placebo, according to a study published online June 7 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the annual meeting of the …

[ SIRT7 is enriched on sex chromosomes and is required for female fitness. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10645-x How diseases develop and how the body ages can differ between females and males, but the biological reasons for these differences are not fully understood. Researchers are studying the role of sex …

[ A clinical trial led by researchers from Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) and the Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC) compared the effectiveness of abatacept and hydroxychloroquine in preventing the development of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with palindromic rheumatism, an …