7+ min ago   (69+ words) The foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes has long been prized by microbiologists for its remarkable versatility: it survives refrigeration, persists on stainless steel surfaces in food-processing plants, and invades host cells with a precision that few bacteria can match. A new…...

18+ min ago   (733+ words) Pneumococcal disease remains one of the most formidable vaccine-preventable threats to young children worldwide, and a newly reported phase IV trial from India offers encouraging evidence that a next-generation pneumococcal conjugate vaccine can meet the moment....

23+ min ago   (656+ words) Up to nearly half of all patients who develop sepsis also sustain damage to the liver, yet the organ has long remained a quiet bystander in critical care research, overshadowed by the kidneys, lungs, and heart....

35+ min ago   (76+ words) A new prospective longitudinal study of 327 patients with lung cancer undergoing radiotherapy has found that something as ordinary as a daily step count, captured silently by a smartphone app, can reveal which patients are likely to slip into worsening frailty…...

46+ min ago   (75+ words) For women living far from hospitals and support groups, a cancer diagnosis can feel like an isolation sentence stacked on top of a medical one. New research suggests that something as simple as writing about their deepest thoughts and feelings…...

58+ min ago   (55+ words) Medicine has long been celebrated for its power to prescribe, but one of the most pressing challenges in modern healthcare is knowing when to stop. Deprescribing, the planned and supervised process of tapering or stopping medications whose harms may outweigh…...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago   (55+ words) Scientists in Indonesia have combined cutting-edge analytical chemistry with an urgent global problem in a study of a humble tropical shrub that villagers have relied on for generations. The plant, Rhodomyrtus tomentosa, known widely as rose myrtle, is a pink-flowered…...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago   (482+ words) Jaundice remains one of the most common clinical challenges faced by neonatal intensive care units around the world, and nowhere is that challenge more acute than in the care of infants born preterm. A research article published in the Journal…...

1+ hour, 31+ min ago   (87+ words) Cellular senescence, one of the most closely studied hallmarks of aging, has long been a paradox in biology. On the one hand, it protects organisms by halting the division of damaged cells that might otherwise become cancerous. On the other,…...

1+ hour, 31+ min ago   (639+ words) Glioblastoma remains one of the most lethal human cancers, and much of its lethality stems from a hidden population of tumor cells that behave like stem cells, capable of self-renewal, plasticity, and resistance to therapy....