How Prostate Cancer May Build Its Own Cholesterol Supply to Keep Growing Prostate cancer is usually explained to the public through hormones, PSA, surgery, radiation, and androgen-deprivation therapy. All of that remains central. But behind that fami...
Read moreThe Brain’s Internal Compass May Be One Reason Some Memories Last When most people think about memory, they picture storage. The brain takes in information, files it away somewhere, and then retrieves it later when needed. But modern neuroscience has...
Read moreMore Sleep and More Movement May Help Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk in Teens For years, the conversation around Type 2 diabetes risk in teenagers has focused mainly on food and body weight. Those factors still matter enormously. But research is increasi...
Read moreBacterial Meningitis Can Change a Life Forever — Even When the Patient Survives Bacterial meningitis has long been understood for what it is: a medical emergency that can kill quickly if diagnosis and treatment do not happen fast. Fever, severe heada...
Read moreWhat Rare Cases of HIV Control Without Ongoing Treatment May Teach Us About Future Remission There is one idea that continues to drive some of the most ambitious research in HIV medicine: could it be possible to control the virus without lifelong ant...
Read moreExtreme Heat: Finding the Most Vulnerable Older Adults Could Change How Health Systems Respond For years, heat waves were often treated mainly as a weather issue. Temperatures climbed, warnings went out, and people were told to drink water, avoid the...
Read moreHPV Self-Sampling Could Unlock Cervical Cancer Screening for Women the System Misses For decades, cervical cancer screening has depended on a fairly simple model: a woman books an appointment, attends a clinic, has a sample collected by a health prof...
Read moreWhen Your Sleep App Becomes a Source of Stress — and When It Can Actually Help For many people, sleep is no longer just something they feel. It is something they measure. Total sleep time. Sleep efficiency. Number of awakenings. Sleep stages. A readi...
Read moreWhy Leukemia Treatment Is Entering a More Precise — and More Promising — Era For years, a leukemia diagnosis often meant entering a world defined by intensive chemotherapy, long hospital stays, and outcomes that could vary dramatically depending on a...
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