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Evidence is mounting that clinicians can treat serious genetic disorders prenatally by injecting medicine into the amniotic fluid, thus preventing damage that begins in utero.

There might be such a thing as getting too much of a good night’s sleep.

A new study reveals that air pollution may contribute to the development of epilepsy, a brain condition that causes seizures.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the USC School of Advanced Computing and the Keck School of Medicine, working alongside experts from the Microsoft AI for Good Lab, Amref Health Africa, and Kenya’s Ministry of Health, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can predict acute child malnutrition in Kenya up to six months in advance.

A new study has highlighted the complex emotions and ethical dilemmas of learning your future risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Among 274 healthy research participants from the US aged 65 and over, 40% declined to receive their personal risk estimates—despite having initially expressed an interest in doing so.

A advancement in the diagnosis of upper limb (UL) spasticity is on the horizon, moving beyond traditional reliance on clinicians’ tactile assessments. Researchers affiliated with UNIST have developed a robotic technology capable of quantifying spasticity with unprecedented accuracy, promising to enhance diagnosis, personalized rehabilitation, and compensation standards.

Physical inactivity costs the UK an estimated £7.4 billion each year—but more importantly, it costs lives. In today’s increasingly sedentary world, sitting too much is raising the risk of many serious diseases, including cancer. But could something as simple as walking offer real protection?

Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and the Royal Veterinary College of London have worked together on a pioneering project worldwide to generate 3D reconstructions of the hearts of different animals and simulations of their blood flow using advanced computational techniques to date only applied to humans. So far, 3D images of cats’ hearts have been generated, but soon the same will be done for dogs, pigs and sheep.

Clinicians from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and four other institutions have demonstrated that doctors can gain a wealth of knowledge about a patient’s cancer by using multiple laboratory techniques to study tumor tissue taken from needle biopsies of glioblastoma, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer. The work, published in Nature Communications, has implications for additional cancer types.

Some patients with lupus who possess specific antibodies are at a higher risk of thrombotic events such as a blood clot, stroke or heart attack, a new study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers shows. The finding might help clinicians determine which patients may need early treatment and clinical monitoring for thrombotic events.