An AI tool could help flag intimate partner violence risk — but the promise still depends on stronger evidence and strict ethical safeguards Few areas of health care demand as much sensitivity as intimate partner violence. The problem often remains h...
Continue readingOlder mice may reveal what young models miss about cancer and ageing In biomedical research, the ideal experimental model is often described as controlled, reproducible, and standardised. That is one reason cancer studies have long relied heavily on...
Continue readingBrain ‘noise’ may not be noise at all — and overlooked signals could help refine mental-health biomarkers In brain imaging, few assumptions have seemed more intuitive than this one: if a signal fluctuates too much, varies too widely, or looks unstabl...
Continue readingA new hypothesis suggests pesticide residues could affect lung-cancer risk in younger non-smokers — but there is not enough evidence here to blame healthy diets Few health headlines create confusion as quickly as ones that seem to reverse basic preve...
Continue readingNew study looks at stigma towards women who lose weight with GLP-1 drugs — and suggests weight loss is still judged as a moral issue, not only a medical one Few health topics expose social judgement about the body as clearly as obesity. And few recen...
Continue readingRobotic or laparoscopic surgery may work for gallbladder cancer — but only in carefully selected patients and experienced centres Few digestive cancers demand as much surgical caution as gallbladder cancer. It is a relatively uncommon disease, often...
Continue readingFirst-line targeted therapy shows strong antitumour activity in advanced lung cancer — but the benefit depends on the right biomarker Few areas of cancer medicine have changed as dramatically in recent years as the treatment of advanced lung cancer....
Continue readingNew research challenges an old obesity idea and suggests body composition in young children may depend more on development than on low energy expenditure alone Few public-health topics attract as many intuitive explanations as obesity. One of the mos...
Continue readingA protein may help explain why triple-negative breast cancer spreads so quickly — but the finding points to one promising mechanism, not a single answer Among breast-cancer subtypes, few raise as much clinical concern as triple-negative breast cancer...
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