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Fan Zhang, Ph.D., sees artificial intelligence as a pathway to finding an effective way to combat an intractable enemy: rheumatoid arthritis.

Parents and caregivers should avoid using a bottle to put toddlers to sleep, say experts, after new research reveals the practice is linked to dental cavities and overweight in early childhood.

Women with blood pressure levels in a range considered clinically normal during pregnancy but no mid-pregnancy drop in blood pressure face an increased risk of developing hypertension in the five years after giving birth. These women—about 12% of the population studied—would not be flagged as high-risk by current medical guidelines, but the new findings could help identify them as candidates for early intervention.

Maladaptive daydreaming should be included as a dissociative disorder in psychiatric manuals, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Prof. Nirit Soffer-Dudek argues in a position paper just published open access in the prestigious British Journal of Psychiatry. Co-signatories on this position paper include many of the presidents and past presidents of the dissociative disorder societies, indicating widespread agreement in the field. This sends a strong message to the psychiatric community, according to which the field of dissociation is interested in formally accepting MD into it.

A study led by Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Center for Autism Services, Science and Innovation (CASSI) finds that a community-based screening model is helping children receive autism diagnoses faster, particularly in underserved communities.

In vitro tests indicate that cannabidiol can stimulate the biomineralization of teeth even under inflammatory conditions, thus promoting tissue repair.

Since becoming only the second Alzheimer’s-modifying drug to gain American Federal Drug Administration approval in 2023, sales of lecanemab, known by its brand name Leqembi, have risen steadily, reaching $87 million USD in the last quarter of 2024.

It’s time for researchers to reconsider the current paradigm of cancer as a genetic disease, argues Sui Huang from the Institute for Systems Biology, U.S., and colleagues in an essay published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.

Fourteen minutes ago, the nonprofit advocacy group Children’s Cancer Cause posted on the social media app Twitter, now called X, that members were on Capitol Hill asking Congress for funding to fight #childhoodcancer.

When you replace an older cell phone or TV with a new high-resolution device, the visuals can be strikingly different—all of a sudden you have improved clarity and can see new details. Now, UC San Francisco epilepsy researchers have applied a similar principle to brain recordings in an effort that might make epilepsy surgeries more effective for patient outcomes.