1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (81+ words) In one of the most remote corners of Australia, a quiet revolution in child health is unfolding around campfires, swimming holes and shared meals. A new qualitative study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific describes how a week-long…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (655+ words) For decades, the central obstacle to curing HIV infection has been the viral reservoir: a small population of cells carrying transcriptionally silent proviruses that antiretroviral therapy suppresses but cannot eliminate....

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (55+ words) Pembrolizumab, one of the most widely prescribed cancer immunotherapies in the world, has long been dosed on the assumption that saturating the PD-1 receptor on T cells is the key to unlocking the immune system against tumours. A new translational…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (127+ words) For the smallest and most fragile patients in medicine, nutrition is not simply a matter of growth but a matter of survival, and few interventions have been as consistently associated with better outcomes for very low birth weight infants as…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (55+ words) Dental implants have become one of the most predictable long-term solutions for tooth replacement, yet their success hinges on a deceptively simple biological event: the direct, functional connection between the implant surface and the surrounding jawbone, known as osseointegration. Titanium,…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (714+ words) A statistical controversy over whether prophylactic antiseizure medication genuinely protects patients after a lobar intracerebral hemorrhage has taken a decisive turn, as the researchers behind the original study have published a detailed rebuttal to methodological criticisms that threatened to undermine…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (704+ words) A sweeping analysis of more than 635,000 cancer patients in South Korea has delivered one of the clearest signals yet that what lies beneath the scale matters far more than the number itself....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (55+ words) Immunotherapy has transformed the outlook for people with advanced bladder and kidney cancer. Drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors, which block molecular brakes such as CTLA-4, PD-1 and PD-L1 to unleash the immune system against tumours, have dramatically improved long-term…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (603+ words) When a dog develops mammary tumors, veterinarians almost never find just one. Roughly half to sixty percent of dogs diagnosed with canine mammary tumors carry multiple, physically distinct growths at the same time, a phenomenon known as synchronous tumor development....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (532+ words) Hidradenitis suppurativa is one of dermatology’s most misunderstood and underappreciated diseases. The chronic inflammatory skin condition, which causes painful nodules, abscesses, and draining tunnels known as sinus tracts, most often develops in intertriginous areas such as the armpits, groin, and…...