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For many cancer patients, side effects from radiation can be debilitating. But a new way of delivering radiation treatment has proven effective at eliminating a hard-to-treat cancer with the only side effect being light skin discoloration, even nine months after treatment.

The total economic burden of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in the United States will reach $781 billion this year, according to new USC-led research.

A new multi-center study by CUNY SPH doctoral candidate Thinh Vu and colleagues has uncovered significant long-term psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontline health care workers in Vietnam, underscoring an urgent need for comprehensive mental health support systems within the health sector. The research is published in the journal BMC Health Services Research.

Results of two parallel studies show that 1 in 4 African children hospitalized with malaria and coma have an additional infection, and that giving antibiotics with antimalarials could help reduce death rates of comatose children.

Brown rice contains more arsenic than white rice, according to a recent study from the US. Understandably, that might sound alarming. After all, arsenic is a well-known toxin. But the levels found in brown rice are not a health risk. And brown rice, like other whole grains, is still an important part of a healthy diet.

As family planning methods continue to remain inaccessible to millions in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs), University of Adelaide researchers are investigating a way to make it more accessible.

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment provides long-term relief for patients suffering from late radiation-induced injuries after treatment of cancer in the lower abdominal area. Five years after hyperbaric oxygen therapy, the positive effects remain. This has been shown in a study conducted at the University of Gothenburg.

A major international study has provided the most comprehensive evidence to date on treatments for neuropathic pain—defined as pain caused by disease of the nervous system, affecting up to 10% of the population worldwide.

There’s no shortage of things to feel angry about these days. Whether it’s politics, social injustice, climate change or the cost-of-living crisis, the world can feel like a pressure cooker.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and collaborating institutions reveal in Nature Cell Biology a strategy that helps medulloblastoma, the most prevalent malignant brain tumor in children, spread and grow on the leptomeninges, the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.