[ Credit: CC0 Public Domain Combining artificial intelligence (AI) with eye tracking in virtual reality could one day help personalize treatment for millions living with chronic pain, according to world-first research from the University of East Anglia. Scientists found that tiny changes in pupil size and blinking patterns can reveal …

“The impact goes far beyond what people understand – we’re talking about pain, urgency, sleepless nights and missing out on your life,” Adrianne tells her roughly 8,000 followers in a video on TikTok. For nearly five years, Adrianne has lived with a chronic urinary tract infection (UTI) – a condition …

[ Water scarcity seldom starts wars, but wars increasingly degrade vital water systems on which health and recovery depend, creating a cycle that reinforces ongoing fragility and violence, warn experts in The BMJ’s climate issue. Source link

[ AI-Based Stepwise Prediction Framework for Immunotherapy Response: A Machine-Learning Approach for Predicting Responders and Nonresponders Based on Tumor Cell Senescence. Credit: POSTECH Even when given the same drug, some patients respond well while others show little or no response. This is particularly true of immunotherapy. A research team at …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain While AI offers the ability to improve human experts’ ability to diagnose and treat diseases like breast cancer, well-publicized errors across the broader AI field are cause for concern. A team from the University of Pittsburgh has used PSC’s flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer to design a …

Pope Leo XIV does not need any further treatment following an operation to remove a cancerous growth from his lung, his doctors have said. Test results on tissue removed during surgery confirmed he had had a lung adenocarcinoma, as was initially diagnosed, and that the disease was localised, according to …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the BBC reality show “The Celebrity Traitors,” the Traitors—James Acaster, Maya Jama and King Kenny—were set an unusual challenge: murder a Faithful by making them yawn. Their plan was to bore their target into yawning, then deliver the line “Am I boring you?” to …

[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from DZNE and the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH) at the University of Tübingen, together with experts from Bonn, London and Portugal, have developed and successfully tested in human neurons cultured in the lab a new approach for treating the rare neurodegenerative …

[ We’re often told parenting is one of the most rewarding things we’ll ever do. But as many parents will attest, it is also full of very difficult moments. And sometimes these moments seem almost constant. While it can feel taboo to say it out loud (“I’m not enjoying being …

[ Graphical abstract. Credit: Circulation Research (2026). DOI: 10.1161/circresaha.125.327744 Reducing damage to the nuclei of heart muscle cells improved heart function and extended survival in mice with a form of inherited heart disease, according to a new study led by Cornell researchers. The findings point to new approaches for understanding …

[ A health care worker speaks to a colleague at the Ebola treatment center in Beni, North Kivu province, Congo, Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. Credit: AP Photo/Sebastien Kitsa Musayi African health ministers were invited Wednesday to an “extraordinary virtual meeting” to discuss the spread of Ebola after Nigeria reported its …

[ Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels A bank of biological samples from thousands of Brazilians could help the Unified Health System (SUS), which is public and free, identify people at higher risk of developing certain types of cancer. In the future, the SUS could offer these individuals more personalized prevention …

[ Credit: Anna Shvets from Pexels New research in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society indicates that older adults who rely on electricity-dependent medical devices—such as ventilators, respirators and dialysis machines—may face substantial health risks during and after hurricanes, especially in communities experiencing severe flooding. For the study, investigators …

Christina Applegate thought she was living with multiple sclerosis (MS) for five years, until recently discovering she had been given a wrong diagnosis. BBC News

[ Dr. Cal Matsumoto, a MedStar Georgetown University Hospital transplant surgeon, gestures to a chart on the digestive system on March 4, 2026, in Washington. Credit: AP Photo/Shelby Lum It’s not always patience and luck that get patients off the organ transplant waiting list and into the operating room. Unlike …

[ Credit: Alex Green from Pexels Women with postpartum psychosis are making repeated pleas for help before receiving a diagnosis, with the first Australian study of their help-seeking experiences finding that participants contacted health services a median of seven times before getting the care they needed. The study is published …

[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a Journal of Internal Medicine study, people who drank tea had a lower risk of vascular disease than non-tea drinkers. Among 485,934 adults in China followed for a median of 9.05 years, there were 14,863 cases of cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, pulmonary heart disease …

[ Obesity is a long-term health challenge that many people face. In fact, the World Health Organization has declared obesity a global epidemic. Source link

For many years, Rochelle Lewis, from Wolverhampton, struggled with facial hair growth, painful periods and anxiety. “I’ve always struggled with a lot of facial hair growing up, it was something I was really bullied about, so I tried to do absolutely everything I could to try and get rid of …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The food choices teenagers make could have implications beyond their physical health, with new research from the University of Sydney linking food choices and sugar consumption to the later emergence of depression and anxiety symptoms. Published in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, the study followed …