Health
Long COVID and ME/CFS Alter Skeletal Muscle Properties Differently Than Bed Rest
Skeletal muscle may be a key—yet underappreciated—bridge between long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a new study suggests....
Vector-Based Olfactory Navigation Strategy Revealed in Drosophila Flies
Flies hunting airborne odor plumes do more than follow scent—they “edge track,” repeatedly steering along the moving boundary between odor...
Primary Care Doctors Compare Tradeoffs Between Salaried Employment and Private Practice
A new qualitative study published in The Annals of Family Medicine spotlights how day-to-day practice differs between U.S. primary care...
Timing Transcatheter Closure of Hemodynamically Significant Patent Ductus in Preterm Infants
Transcatheter closure of a hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus (hsPDA) is increasingly used as the definitive way to stop abnormal...
Long-Term Care With Family Physicians Reduces Urgent Hospital Admissions, Costs
A large retrospective cohort study has linked long-term continuity in primary care with fewer urgent hospital admissions and lower healthcare...
CRISPR-Cas Controls Expression of Integrated Anti-Phage Defense Genes
Bacteria face relentless pressure from bacteriophages, yet their protective arsenals include many partially independent defense modules. A central question has...
Cryo-EM Reveals Biopsy-Derived TTR Fibril Structures in Hereditary Amyloidosis
Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR) is driven by the misfolding of transthyretin (TTR), a transport protein whose fragments assemble into toxic...
UAE Study Tracks Survival and Pre-Discharge Outcomes in Extremely Preterm Neonates
A new prospective study from a tertiary neonatal center in the United Arab Emirates offers a granular look at survival...
Tutorial Explores Biomembranes for Hybrid Living Bioelectronics Applications
A new tutorial review highlights how researchers are engineering “biomembrane–electronic” interfaces to connect living cells—or faithful cell-membrane mimics—with chip-based devices....
Kenya Study Explores Family and Community Care for Older Parkinson’s Patients
A new qualitative ethnographic study is reshaping how we think about aging with Parkinson’s disease in low-resource settings. Published in...
AI-Guided Handheld Cardiac Ultrasound Promises Early Detection and Cost Savings
Handheld ultrasound is moving from hospitals to the bedside. A new study published in The Annals of Family Medicine reports...
Mitophagy dampens mitochondrial DNA–triggered cGAS-STING activation in autoimmune thyroiditis
Viral science news: Autoimmune thyroiditis has long puzzled researchers with how mitochondrial material sparks an inflammatory cascade that ultimately damages...
Magnesium Sulfate May Protect Newborn Brains in Neonatal Encephalopathy
A new systematic review is putting postnatal magnesium sulfate (MgSO₄) under the microscope as a potential neuroprotective strategy for newborns...
Unlinked medical records hinder dementia care for patients and caregivers
Medical care for people living with dementia often hinges on a quieter partner: the caregiver who manages medications, appointments, daily...
Imaging Nanoscale Polar Textures Reveals Quantum Paraelectric Behavior in SrTiO3
Nanoscale polar order may be the missing link in the long-studied “quantum paraelectric” behavior of strontium titanate (SrTiO₃), according to...
Atezolizumab After Single or Multiple Fractions of Stereotactic Radiotherapy in TNBC
Advanced triple-negative breast cancer may benefit from an unexpected combination: stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) delivered either in a single...
Pre-Transfusion Platelet Levels Predict Bleeding in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
A new analysis of platelet transfusion practices in very low birth weight (VLBW) newborns suggests that clinicians’ decisions may not...
Navigation Service Outperforms Signposting for Linking Primary Care Patients to Resources
A new randomized trial published in The Annals of Family Medicine tests a simple but powerful idea: when patients struggle...
Immunological Misadaptation Predicts Spontaneous Preterm Birth in Pregnancies
A new study in Nature Communications suggests that the immune system’s “miscalibration” may begin well before the first clinical signs...
How Extracellular Histones Disrupt Cardiomyocyte Function: New Mechanisms
A team studying how blood-borne danger signals harm the heart has traced a new pathway linking extracellular histones to cardiomyocyte...