Why 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...
Continue readingPatient-specific ‘avatars’ for paediatric brain cancer are becoming more realistic — but they remain mostly research tools In paediatric oncology, few fields make the shortcomings of current medicine as visible as brain cancer. Even with advances in...
Continue readingStopping 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...
Continue readingAI may turn fat around the heart into a new cardiovascular risk clue — but for now it looks more like an add-on than a replacement Cardiovascular risk prediction has long relied on a familiar set of ingredients: age, blood pressure, cholesterol, diab...
Continue readingA newly described recessive neurodevelopmental disorder may be less rare than expected — but the boldest prevalence claim is not yet supported Few areas of medicine have changed as quickly in recent years as the genetics of neurodevelopmental disorde...
Continue readingX chromosome genes may help explain why autism is diagnosed more often in boys — but the story is far from settled The fact that autism is diagnosed more often in boys than in girls is one of the most familiar patterns in neurodevelopmental research,...
Continue readingRadiology is under growing pressure to keep specialists — and rising attrition may be the clearest warning sign yet Radiology is often described as one of modern medicine’s quiet foundations. Almost no major clinical pathway works without imaging: em...
Continue reading‘Brain-like’ AI may be much less brain-like than the tech narrative suggests Few phrases carry as much power in artificial intelligence as “brain-inspired” or “brain-like”. They suggest scientific depth, biological credibility and a future in which m...
Continue readingExercising harder may offer extra health benefits in some cases — but the biggest win is still not being inactive Some health headlines sound as though they have solved a complicated debate with one neat phrase. “Exercise harder — not just longer — t...
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