Understand or prevent a condition.
Respiratory syncytial virus infects nearly all children by age two, and it is a leading reason young infants end up in the hospital. In a pooled analysis of 27 real-world studies from five countries, infants who received nirsevimab, a long-acting… Read More →
Two radiologists read every screening mammogram in Sweden’s national program, each one working independently. A trial of 105,934 women handed part of that job to artificial intelligence, and detection went up rather than down: 80.5% of breast cancers caught, against… Read More →
Heart attacks that arrive out of nowhere, in people whose basic numbers were all fine, turn out to be close to nonexistent. Across more than 9.3 million adults, over 99% of first heart attacks and other coronary events, strokes and… Read More →
Would packing a full course of magnetic brain stimulation into two weeks still move depression that had resisted everything else? In 100 adults with exactly that history, about a third of those given real stimulation reached remission, roughly twice the… Read More →
Adults who received a shingles vaccine had about a 23% lower risk of a serious heart or blood-vessel event in the years that followed, in a study tracking more than a million people in South Korea. The lower risk was… Read More →
A prostate cancer found by screening is not always a cancer worth finding. Many grow so slowly they would never have caused a symptom. Once one has a name, though, it often gets surgery or radiation, and those treatments leave… Read More →
Among women aged 20 to 24 in England during 2020 to 2024, not one died of cervical cancer. Death rates from before vaccination say roughly 23 of them should have. That age band is the first generation old enough to… Read More →
Resistance training showed no link to lower stroke risk in women. The signal sat in the heart instead: about 20% lower risk of a major cardiovascular event among women doing at least two hours a week, and about 44% lower… Read More →
