A Fracture Risk Calculator Could Change Who Gets Flagged for Parathyroid Surgery Primary hyperparathyroidism can look deceptively quiet. Sometimes it is picked up on routine bloodwork, with elevated calcium, few obvious symptoms, and an overall sense...
Read moreAlcohol and Cancer: Science Knows the Risk, but the Public Still Often Doesn’t When people think about alcohol-related harm, they usually think first about liver disease, addiction, impaired driving, or mental health. Cancer often comes much later in...
Read moreSchizophrenia Research Is Starting to Treat Cognitive Symptoms as a Biological Target When most people think about schizophrenia, they think about hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking. Those symptoms are central to the illness and can...
Read moreFrequent Brisk Activity May Help the Brain Work Better When most people think about exercise, they still tend to think first about weight, fitness, or heart health. All of that matters. But one of the most interesting messages emerging from recent re...
Read moreYour Health Is Not Written in DNA Alone: Why the Exposome Is Changing How We Think About Disease Risk For years, precision medicine was sold as a story about DNA. The promise was elegant: decode a person’s genes, identify vulnerabilities, and predict...
Read moreWhy Some Breast Cancers Spread Faster: A Protein May Be Helping Tumours Harden the Tissue Around Them When people think about aggressive cancer, they often picture the problem as living entirely inside the tumour cell — bad mutations, fast growth, re...
Read moreNew Combination Offers Progress Against Brain Metastases in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer When breast cancer spreads to the brain, the disease enters one of its most difficult phases. The prognosis often worsens, symptoms can become more disabling, and...
Read moreSemaglutide and ‘Eye Stroke’: What This Possible Risk Really Means Few phrases alarm patients faster than “eye stroke.” And when that term is linked to popular weight-loss drugs such as semaglutide, the reaction is often immediate: fear, confusion, a...
Read moreWhy Liver Cancer Linked to Obesity May Be Harder to Treat For years, the conversation around obesity and liver cancer focused mostly on risk. The message was fairly straightforward: excess body fat raises the likelihood of fatty liver disease, and fa...
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