[ This 1978 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Legionella pneumophila bacteria which are responsible for causing the pneumonic disease Legionnaires’ disease. Credit: Francis Chandler/CDC via AP, File A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in a New York City neighborhood now counts 60 cases, …

[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The brain uses visual cues to coordinate muscle movement. When motor commands and sensory feedback are out of alignment, visuo-motor errors occur. Rapid perception of these errors allows for correction, which is important in many aspects of life—from preventing falls among older adults to enabling …

[ A bad back led Dr. Dale Block to retire from family medicine in 2019 after nearly four decades of treating patients. Source link

[ A blood test for the biomarker phosphorylated tau 217 (p-tau217) recently received federal clearance, but questions have emerged about the extent to which such tests can accurately predict whether a cognitively healthy individual will develop cognitive impairment—a key symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. Source link

[ Among adults with insulin-treated diabetes, initiation of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) by primary care clinicians is associated with clinically meaningful improvements in hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) and significant reductions in recurrent hospitalizations, according to a study published online July 6 in JAMA Network Open. Source link

[ Michigan health officials have identified lettuce and other salad greens as the leading suspected source of a growing multistate outbreak of Cyclospora, a parasite that causes watery diarrhea. Source link

[ One in 10 Americans say they are a caregiver for a parent 65 or older, according to 2025 Pew research. And many people in the sandwich generation—those who have both children and aging parents—start their caregiving journeys by having to step up during a medical crisis and become a …

[ Credit: Alex Green from Pexels People with disabilities are diagnosed with alcohol use disorder at much higher rates than nondisabled people A new study found that adults with disabilities had more than three times the rate of AUD diagnoses compared with adults without disabilities in the U.S., with particularly …

[ An estimated 1 in 4 adults worldwide has metabolic syndrome. While metabolic syndrome is most often thought of as a warning sign that diabetes or cardiovascular disease may be on the horizon, my team’s new study suggests that its consequences reach further—and it may actually be accelerating the aging …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The first clinical trial of an antiviral drug’s effectiveness in people exposed to the deadly Ebola strain spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo is underway, the WHO said Tuesday. The trial, called EBO-PEP, aims to assess the effectiveness of the antiviral obeldesivir in post-exposure …

[ Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers affecting men worldwide. However, planning personalized radiotherapy in the advanced stages of the disease still requires more precise tools. Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have now tested a novel approach. A combination of two diagnostic imaging techniques could pave …

[ Mono- and combination therapies differentially enhance beta cell identity and attenuate beta cell stress and immunogenicity. Credit: Diabetologia (2026). DOI: 10.1007/s00125-026-06750-1 An international research group led by researchers from VUB-UZ Brussels and KU Leuven has demonstrated that a combined approach targeting both the immune system and insulin-producing beta cells …

[ These brain scan images provided by Biogen show how high levels of Alzheimer’s-related tau protein, in red, dropped in a recipient of the company’s experimental drug diranersen. Credit: Biogen via AP An experimental drug might help slow early Alzheimer’s disease in a markedly different way than today’s treatments—by lowering …

Anna Sabine was having a lump removed from her thyroid when a nerve to one of her vocal cords was cut. BBC News

[ Health care professionals performing minimally invasive procedures in fluoroscopy laboratories, often called “cath labs,” should no longer have to accept preventable radiation exposure and orthopedic injuries as part of their jobs, according to an expert consensus statement released today that is endorsed by six leading medical societies. Source link

Available for over a year Sickle cell is a genetic blood condition that can cause severe pain, extreme tiredness and serious health complications. It mainly affects people of African and Caribbean heritage, and for many, it’s something they’ve had to live with their whole lives. But that could be changing. …

[ Representative preflight, in-flight, and postflight hand radiographs. Radiographs of the hand were acquired (A) preflight by a crewmember, (B) in-flight on day 1 after launch (L+1) by a crewmember, and (C) postflight by a non-crew operator using the same imaging protocol. Credit: Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) A …

The scramble to buy PPE during the pandemic saw the UK waste almost £10 billion of taxpayers’ money, the inquiry says, with tens of millions of pounds more spent on other equipment that simply could not be used. The chair Baroness Heather Hallett criticised the “vast” waste in pandemic procurement, …

[ Nerve blocks—local anesthetic injections that block pain signals—are a valuable opioid-sparing technique for controlling pain after surgery. However, some patients experience temporary sharp increases in pain as the nerve block wears off. This phenomenon, often termed “rebound pain,” does not result from nerve hypersensitivity to painful testing (e.g., heat, …

The lives of NHS staff and patients were put at risk in the pandemic because of a lack of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), the Covid inquiry has said. It found that a “vast amount” of taxpayers’ money was wasted on PPE – almost £10bn of the £14.9bn spent by …