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ICSA 2025: Infection's role in cellular senescence, inflammation, and aging
1+ hour, 11+ min ago (180+ words) A new meeting report was published in'Volume 17, Issue 12 of'Aging-US'on December 23, 2025, titled "Cellular senescence meets infection: highlights from the 10th annual International Cell Senescence Association (ICSA) conference, Rome 2025." Chronic viral infections were another major theme. Human cytomegalovirus and HIV were shown to…...
Bowel preparation for colonoscopies may temporarily alter gut balance, preclinical study suggests
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (254+ words) Bowel preparation for colonoscopies may temporarily alter gut balance, preclinical study suggests'News-Medical Bowel preparation for colonoscopies may temporarily alter gut balance, preclinical study suggests New preclinical research suggests that bowel preparation procedures for colonoscopies may temporarily alter gut balance, culminating…...
Solving the home care quandary
7+ hour, 36+ min ago (1322+ words) You're ready to leave the hospital, but you don't feel able to care for yourself at home yet. Or, you've completed a couple of weeks in rehab. Can you handle your complicated medication regimen, along with shopping and cooking? Perhaps…...
Stimulating immune cells could offer new treatment for nerve injury pain
14+ hour, 8+ min ago (245+ words) Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that targeting a specific immune process could help improve recovery after nerve injury and reduce chronic pain. Chronic neuropathic pain after nerve injury can be debilitating for many…...
Advanced AI provides accurate guidance for prostate cancer patients
15+ hour, 47+ min ago (341+ words) Cancer patients often face uncertainty as they process complex information about their diagnosis and treatment options. Limited time with clinicians can make it difficult for patients to receive the detailed'answers they need to understand decisions that shape their care.' Fifteen…...
Day case surgery linked to significant readmission and chronic pain risks
16+ hour, 6+ min ago (462+ words) Two new studies published in Anaesthesia (the journal of the Association of Anaesthetists) analyzing pain and other factors connected with day surgery in the UK show that around 1 in 8 patients having day-case surgery end up not going home and instead…...
Brazilian study shows liquid biopsies can expedite lung cancer care
22+ hour, 56+ min ago (312+ words) Adenocarcinoma is the lung cancer subtype that has benefited most from advances in genomics and is therefore the main focus of our study. Genes such as'EGFR,'ALK, and'KRAS'have what we call 'actionability.' This means that when we identify such an…...
Pain-sensing neurons in the gut spark inflammatory immune responses
1+ day, 1+ min ago (599+ words) Pain sensing neurons in the gut kindle inflammatory immune responses that cause allergies and asthma, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine. The findings, published Jan. 7 in Nature, suggest that current drugs may not be as effective because…...
Gene therapy breakthrough could provide hope for millions living with chronic pain
1+ day, 37+ min ago (396+ words) Dealing'with chronic pain can'feel'like'listening'to a radio where the volume is stuck at maximum volume, and no matter what you do, the noise never'seems to dull or lessen. Opioid medications, like morphine, work by turning down the volume, but they also…...
Breakthrough treatment for advanced prostate cancer could eliminate severe side effects
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (570+ words) Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a treatment for advanced prostate cancer that could eliminate a side effect so debilitating that patients often refuse the life-saving therapy. In a study recently published in Molecular Imaging and Biology, the…...