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CATEGORY: DISEASE PREVENTION An injection given just twice a year was linked to near-total protection against HIV in two large international trials: among 2,134 young women who received it, not a single infection occurred, and among 2,179 men and gender-diverse… Read More →
CATEGORY: IMMUNE HEALTH Infants who received nirsevimab—a long-acting antibody injection against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV—had 83% lower odds of being hospitalized for RSV than infants who did not, in a pooled analysis of 27 real-world studies from five countries.… Read More →
CATEGORY: WOMEN'S HEALTH Mammogram screening in which artificial intelligence helped radiologists read the scans caught 80.5% of breast cancers, compared with 73.8% for the standard approach of two radiologists reading every scan—with no increase in false alarms—in a randomized trial… Read More →
CATEGORY: HEART & CIRCULATION More than 99% of people who had a first heart attack or other coronary event, stroke, or episode of heart failure—a condition in which the heart cannot pump well enough to meet the body's needs—had at… Read More →
CATEGORY: BRAIN & MENTAL HEALTH A short, intensive course of magnetic brain stimulation helped more people recover from stubborn depression than a convincing fake version of the same treatment, according to a randomized trial published in JAMA Psychiatry. Among 100… Read More →
CATEGORY: DISEASE PREVENTION Adults who received a shingles vaccine were less likely to develop serious heart and blood-vessel problems in the years that followed, according to a study that tracked more than a million people in South Korea. Those who… Read More →
CATEGORY: MEN'S HEALTH In a randomized trial of 13,153 Swedish men aged 50 to 60, adding an MRI scan to prostate cancer screening and skipping the biopsy when that scan was clear was followed by 57% fewer diagnoses of harmless… Read More →
CATEGORY: IMMUNE HEALTH England began offering HPV vaccination to girls aged 12 to 13 in 2008. Among women aged 20 to 24 in the years 2020 to 2024—the first group old enough to have been vaccinated routinely at that age—researchers… Read More →
CATEGORY: WOMEN'S HEALTH Women who regularly did resistance training—muscle-strengthening activity like lifting weights or using resistance bands or machines—had a lower risk of major heart and blood-vessel disease than women who did none, a large U.S. study found. Those doing… Read More →
