A brain scan may one day help predict psychiatric hospitalization — but the evidence presented is still too thin Few areas of medicine live with as much predictive uncertainty as psychiatry. A patient may appear relatively stable in clinic and then,...
Read moreHow pancreatic cancer begins: new research reinforces that the disease may start when a precancerous growth stops repairing and starts progressing Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most feared diagnoses in oncology. That is partly because it is so...
Read moreSyphilis is rising again and can lead to stroke, hearing loss, and devastating pregnancy harms — but the supplied evidence does not confirm a broad heart-attack risk For a while, syphilis seemed like the kind of disease that belonged more to medical...
Read moreA free online tool may help improve opioid safety — but it is too early to treat it as a proven fix In medicine, opioids occupy one of the most difficult spaces to manage well. They can be essential for acute severe pain, cancer pain, and certain car...
Read moreLoneliness may be linked to degenerative heart valve disease risk — but the evidence provided is too thin to treat that as established The relationship between loneliness and physical health is no longer treated as just an emotional-wellbeing issue....
Read moreHow people think through a test may matter for dementia risk — but science has not yet established it as a clinical predictor For years, the logic behind cognitive testing seemed fairly straightforward: if someone remembers less, gets fewer items rig...
Read moreA new strategy may help predict which colorectal cancer patients will respond best to treatment — but precision oncology is still refining the method In colorectal cancer care, one of the most important questions often arrives before medicine has a f...
Read moreExercising at the right time may help the heart — but science has not yet shown that matching workouts to chronotype lowers cardiovascular risk For a long time, cardiovascular prevention was framed in fairly simple terms: move more, eat better, sleep...
Read morePlatinum-resistant ovarian cancer remains one of oncology’s hardest settings — and new combinations offer hope, with caution In ovarian cancer treatment, the phrase platinum-resistant changes the clinical picture dramatically. It signals that the dis...
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