More precise molecular testing may open new paths for rare central nervous system tumours In oncology, rarity is rarely an advantage. Rare tumours tend to come with fewer studies, fewer established treatment pathways, less diagnostic consensus, and l...
Continue readingSome cancers may depend on cholesterol metabolism to grow — and that could open new treatment targets For a long time, cholesterol was treated almost exclusively as part of a cardiovascular story. High cholesterol meant worry about arteries, heart at...
Continue readingA detailed map of pancreatic islet cells is offering new clues to diabetes risk For decades, the public story of diabetes was told in relatively simple terms. In type 1 diabetes, the central idea was autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing beta c...
Continue readingBiomaterials may help make pancreatic cancer organoids more useful in the lab — but the promise is still early Pancreatic cancer remains one of the hardest diseases to study and treat. Part of the problem lies in the tumour itself: it changes, adapts...
Continue readingPoor health may be reaching younger generations earlier in life — and inequality is a big part of the story For decades, many people assumed progress would move in one direction. Each generation, the thinking went, would live longer, arrive at adulth...
Continue reading‘Smart bubbles’ are emerging as a promising way to target cancer and heart-related disease more precisely Few ideas sound as unlikely — and as elegant — as this one: using microscopic bubbles to help doctors see disease more clearly and, at the same...
Continue readingLonger-lasting or harder-to-treat depression may be linked to more pronounced brain changes The idea that depression may alter the brain tends to trigger two unhelpful reactions at once. One is reductionism: the notion that emotional suffering can be...
Continue readingPoor sleep and poor mental health in young people may be feeding each other — and social media can intensify the cycle There is a question hanging over families, schools, clinics and public policy: why do so many young people seem to be sleeping badl...
Continue readingAlcohol’s breast cancer risk may be under-communicated — and that alone is a public health concern Some public health problems are not only about what products do. They are also about how risk is explained — or not explained — to the people using the...
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