5+ hour, 33+ min ago   (671+ words) Pediatric radiology is, by almost any measure, deeply meaningful work. Radiologists, technologists, nurses, and child life specialists spend their careers peering inside the bodies of sick children, catching diseases early, guiding treatment decisions, and supporting families through some of the…...

7+ hour, 40+ min ago   (661+ words) A single protein called BAX sits at the gateway between life and death for human cells. When tissues are injured, stressed, or deprived of oxygen, BAX springs into action, punching holes in the outer membrane of mitochondria and triggering the…...

7+ hour, 51+ min ago   (485+ words) A sprawling review of the meadow rue genus, Thalictrum, has catalogued a striking trove of biologically active plant chemicals across Africa and Asia, while simultaneously exposing how little of the evidence stands up to rigorous scientific scrutiny....

7+ hour, 58+ min ago   (120+ words) Adoptive T cell therapy has delivered striking remissions in some blood cancers, but its promise in solid tumors has been repeatedly undermined by a stubborn problem: the therapeutic cells do not last. Engineered T cells that flood a tumor and…...

8+ hour, 2+ min ago   (704+ words) Cardiovascular medicine is quietly undergoing a structural rethink, and the change begins with the order of operations....

8+ hour, 19+ min ago   (788+ words) A benign tumor growing on the vestibular nerve deep inside the skull is daunting enough on its own, but a new study suggests that for many patients, the financial aftermath of treatment is less catastrophic than feared....

8+ hour, 31+ min ago   (55+ words) Acute appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies on the planet, striking roughly 17 million people each year, yet doctors still miss the mark often enough to matter. In about 13 percent of appendectomies, the removed appendix turns out to…...

8+ hour, 34+ min ago   (596+ words) Medical implants save millions of lives every year, yet they remain vulnerable to two stubborn enemies: corrosion and infection....

8+ hour, 43+ min ago   (83+ words) Ovarian cancer remains one of the most lethal gynecologic malignancies, and for decades researchers have pursued an idea that sounds deceptively simple: train the patient’s own immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. A new analysis of the entire…...

8+ hour, 49+ min ago   (90+ words) People living in prisons, jails and forensic mental health facilities carry some of the heaviest burdens of psychological distress in society, yet one of the most dangerous and under-recognised forms of that distress has largely escaped scientific attention. A new…...