Better water filtration may reduce some health exposures — but the promised lifespan boost is not proven here When a headline says a water filter may add months to life, it lands because it promises something both simple and profound: a small change...
Continue readingA lower CA19-9 threshold might help catch more high-risk pancreatic cancer cases — but only with care Pancreatic cancer remains one of oncology’s greatest early-detection failures. In many patients, the diagnosis arrives late, when the tumour is alre...
Continue readingEven low-risk pancreatic cysts may offer a rare chance to catch cancer earlier Few cancer diagnoses are as feared as pancreatic cancer. That is partly because of how aggressive it can be, but also because it is so often found late. By the time clear...
Continue readingSevere mental illness worsens cancer survival — and exposes a major failure in care When people talk about inequality in cancer care, the conversation usually centres on income, race, geography or access to specialist hospitals. All of that matters....
Continue readingAI may spot heart risk in breast cancer patients before damage becomes obvious In cancer care, saving a life does not always mean confronting only the cancer itself. Sometimes it also means preventing treatment from causing serious harm elsewhere in...
Continue readingBrain imaging may help move mental health care towards a more biological era — but the shift is still early Psychiatry has long lived with an uncomfortable tension. It treats common, serious and often disabling conditions, yet it still relies heavily...
Continue readingNew targets in hard-to-treat cancers are sharpening the promise of precision oncology One of the hardest truths in cancer care is that the most dangerous tumours are often the ones that keep changing. They evolve, develop resistance, switch molecular...
Continue readingPoor sleep in pregnancy may be an overlooked warning sign for gestational diabetes Pregnancy can make a good night’s sleep feel almost impossible. Between nausea, reflux, body aches, anxiety, frequent trips to the bathroom and the simple mechanics of...
Continue readingNew brain imaging tools are getting better at tracking activity across multiple cell types at once One of the oldest technical problems in neuroscience has been surprisingly simple to describe: the closer you look at the brain, the less of it you can...
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