Intimate partner violence leaves marks on the mind and the brain — and health care still underestimates the damage When people talk about intimate partner violence, the focus quite rightly tends to fall on the immediate danger: assault, threats, cont...
Continue readingA healthier plant-based diet is linked with lower dementia risk — but it is not a stand-alone shield against Alzheimer’s Few areas of health attract as much interest as the possibility of protecting the brain with choices made years — or even decades...
Continue readingTau seeds may spread through connected neurons in Alzheimer’s disease — helping explain how the illness advances through the brain One of the hardest questions in Alzheimer’s disease is not simply which proteins are involved, but how the damage sprea...
Continue readingStudy challenges the popular belief about fish oil and the brain — and the clearest message is that any benefits may depend on context Few supplements have built as strong a reputation as fish oil when it comes to the brain. For years, the idea has b...
Continue readingA molecular map could open new routes for treating heart and lung disease — but the real advance is in target discovery, not an immediate cure Heart and lung diseases are often described by their most visible effects: shortness of breath, exercise in...
Continue readingPredicting heart disease within diabetes subgroups is an important goal — but the new headline still needs caution For many years, diabetes was treated as a fairly uniform cardiovascular risk category. Once a person had the diagnosis, the assumption...
Continue readingCAR-T can treat some cancers that once had few options — and new strategies aim to make it accessible to more patients Few recent cancer treatments have generated as much excitement as CAR-T cell therapy. In some patients with relapsed or refractory...
Continue readingA new study suggests a missing piece in how the brain regulates appetite — but the biology of hunger was already more complex than it sounds Few bodily functions seem as intuitive as eating. We get hungry, we eat, and then we feel full. But that simp...
Continue readingA new AI model could help spot lung cancer earlier — but its real value may be in sorting risky nodules more accurately Lung cancer remains one of the diseases where timing changes almost everything. Found late, it often leaves fewer treatment option...
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