1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (55+ words) Soluble magnesium composites are emerging as one of the most intriguing materials of the decade, promising tools that dissolve on command downhole in oil and gas wells, and implants that quietly disappear inside the human body once their work is…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (520+ words) A new study is challenging one of the most common assumptions in the fast-growing field of biological aging research: that the different blood tests used to measure how fast a person is aging are, at some level, measuring the same…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (671+ words) Pediatric radiology is, by almost any measure, deeply meaningful work. Radiologists, technologists, nurses, and child life specialists spend their careers peering inside the bodies of sick children, catching diseases early, guiding treatment decisions, and supporting families through some of the…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (678+ words) Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium responsible for gonorrhea, remains the second most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted infection worldwide and has become a central figure in the escalating global antimicrobial resistance crisis....

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (56+ words) Water utilities live and die by the forecast. When a crew opens a valve or takes a pipe offline for inspection, the entire calculation rests on an assumption about how much water customers will draw that day. Get that number…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (87+ words) Dizziness is one of the most common reasons people seek medical help, accounting for anywhere between one and fifteen percent of primary care visits worldwide, yet it remains one of the hardest symptoms to pin down. Patients frequently struggle to…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (69+ words) A centuries-old plant alkaloid best known for lowering blood sugar may have another, far more ambitious role: slowing the aging of the immune system itself. In a comprehensive review published in the journal Biogerontology, researchers from the Russian Clinical Research…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (668+ words) Influenza has long been one of medicine’s most stubborn adversaries, not because the virus cannot be countered, but because it refuses to stand still. Through continual antigenic drift, the hemagglutinin and neuraminidase proteins on the viral surface accumulate mutations that…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (769+ words) Older adults undergoing cancer treatment face a hidden metabolic threat that has long slipped through the cracks of oncology care. Corticosteroids, which are woven into many chemotherapy regimens and supportive care protocols to suppress nausea, allergic reactions and immune-related toxicity,…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (102+ words) A fungal species better known for living quietly in soil and compost heaps has surfaced in an unexpected place: the inflamed skin of a family dog. In a case report published in Veterinary Medicine and Science, researchers at the University…...