3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (437+ words) Special Report: Cynthia E. Keen Additional pressures on pathology departments include a national shortage of pathologists, an increase in the quantity of diagnoses and treatments requiring pathology analysis, and an overall volume of work caused by a growing ageing population. Both…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (287+ words) Image source: GSU; courtesy: Yang Lab Image source: Li D, Bamishaye O, Li S et al., Science Advances 2026 (CC BY-NC 4.0) “Lung cancer is often diagnosed only after it has spread, when treatment options become more limited,” Yang said. “Our technology…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (419+ words) An international collaboration co-led by the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) now offers an explanation. The work identifies which processes cause the DNA damage in the majority of prostate cancers, the second most common tumour in men worldwide. The…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (341+ words) Radiotherapy may be able to do far more than simply destroy tumor cells. A review explores how combining radiotherapy with immunotherapy could improve outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer. Recent advances now allow us to view radiotherapy from an entirely…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (390+ words) At Anadolu Medical Center, in strategic cooperation with Johns Hopkins Medicine, a browser-based tool now translates the hospital's paper protocol into an executable, step-by-step decision aid. In a prospective validation study, it matched an independent clinical reference standard in all…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (315+ words) Image source: NIAID, Syphilis Bacteria (16842837731), CC BY 2.0 Across Europe, cases of congenital syphilis nearly doubled within just one year from 78 in 2023 to 140 in 2024 among 14 countries reporting data. In contrast, Denmark has marked 10 years without a single case of vertical syphilis…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (624+ words) Image source: UCL; credit: Jennifer Rohn A new study, published in Nature Communications, shows that phage therapy – the use of viruses to kill bacteria without harming people – could help to reduce recurrent infections, which happen when the bacteria responsible for…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (251+ words) Image source: European Respiratory Society; courtesy of Dr Dimeas Microplastics could contribute to inflammation or other biological processes that may contribute to diseases like cancer, but it is also possible that diseased lungs simply retain particles differently than healthy lungs…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (161+ words) Researchers examined national health registries in Denmark to study how a variety of diagnosed mental health conditions that occurred within three years after a traumatic event were linked to cardiovascular death, heart attacks, strokes or procedures to restore blood flow…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (779+ words) © Gorodenkoff – stock.adobe.com Report by Cynthia E. Keen The situation in the United States mirrors this trend. The FBI reported that in 2025, healthcare organisations experienced 182 data breaches and 460 ransomware attacks – the highest number among all critical infrastructure sectors.3 ‘Although…...