Indoor tanning drastically increases melanoma risk, and scientists have now mapped the sweeping DNA damage tanning beds inflict across nearly the entire skin surface — damage far beyond what sunlight causes.
All the NIH grant funding cuts and terminations that have occurred in 2025 under the Trump administration has left many scientific projects only partially completed.
For many people living with long COVID, ongoing issues such as breathlessness, fatigue and brain fog remain difficult to explain. A team of prominent microbiologists now believes they may have uncovered an important clue.
Their view is that, for some individuals, long COVID symptoms could stem…
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) is done for the season after suffering a left ACL tear against the Los Angeles Chargers on December 14, 2025 at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, MO. (Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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A year after UnitedHealth Group lost UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson to an assassin’s bullets, his thousands of colleagues are remembering him with a week of service
A research project supported by FAPESP and carried out at Harvard University in the United States has identified a set of metabolites that move from the intestine to the liver and then on to the heart, which distributes them throughout the body. These circulating compounds appear to influence…
One potential strategy for treating a wide range of illnesses involves targeting senescent cells. These cells — also known as “zombie cells” — stop multiplying but fail to clear themselves from the body as healthy cells normally do. They appear in many conditions, including cancer, Alzheimer’s…
Forskolin, a plant-derived compound, may offer a meaningful improvement in therapies for a highly aggressive leukemia known as KMT2A-rearranged Acute Myeloid Leukemia (KMT2A-r AML). Researchers at the University of Surrey report that this natural molecule could play a valuable role in enhancing…
Researchers have used a deep learning artificial intelligence model to identify what they describe as the first biomarker of chronic stress that can be directly seen on standard medical images. The findings are being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North…
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed “Medical Aid in Dying” legislation as baby boomers age and more caregivers, families and physicians confront end-of-life issues.