Not being able to afford dental care may signal broader health risk — but a direct link to heart disease and dementia is not yet proven For a long time, oral health was treated as if it sat outside the rest of medicine. Tooth pain, gum disease, tooth...
Read moreMigration can reshape cardiovascular risk — not through genetics, but through environment, routine and access to care For years, cardiovascular risk was often framed in highly individual terms: cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, body weight, s...
Read moreBrain-based clues could reshape mental health care — but for now they are still closer to the lab than the clinic For much of its history, psychiatry has been defined by an uncomfortable reality: it has had to diagnose some of the most serious illnes...
Read moreAutoimmune disease, chronic inflammation and cancer risk may be connected — but this evidence does not show anti-inflammatory therapy broadly lowers that risk Some medical ideas feel intuitively true long before they are fully proven. The notion that...
Read moreLeft atrial appendage closure is gaining ground as an alternative to blood thinners for some patients with atrial fibrillation For a long time, stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation followed a fairly straightforward path: assess thromboembolic ris...
Read moreMenopause appears to reshape breast tissue in major ways — and that may help explain shifts linked to cancer risk Menopause is often framed as a hormonal milestone, a turning point associated with hot flashes, sleep disruption, bone loss and cardiova...
Read moreWhy early pregnancy loss can feel so isolating — and how more compassionate care could help Early pregnancy loss is both common and strangely invisible. Many women go through it in healthcare settings built for speed: confirm what happened, manage pa...
Read morePatient-specific ‘avatars’ for pediatric brain cancer are getting more realistic — but they are still mostly research tools In pediatric oncology, few fields make the shortcomings of current medicine as visible as brain cancer. Even with advances in...
Read moreStopping beta-blockers after a heart attack may be reasonable for some patients — but it is not a blanket rule Few drugs have held as established a place in post-heart-attack care as beta-blockers. For years, the logic seemed straightforward: if thes...
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