Autoimmune 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...
Continue readingLeft 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...
Continue readingMenopause 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 flushes, sleep disruption, bone loss and cardiova...
Continue readingWhy 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,...
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