A new major study from Queen Mary University of London has found that smokers who use both cigarettes and e-cigarettes at the same time – known as dual use – are reducing…
A Fox Chase Cancer Center study found that measuring a patient’s absolute lymphocyte count can predict how well they’ll respond to the therapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. It could offer a practical tool…
The negative health impacts from contamination by so called “forever chemicals” in drinking water costs the contiguous U.S. at least $8 billion a year in social costs, a University of Arizona-led study…
New research on public attitudes toward AI indicates that most people are reluctant to let ChatGPT and other AI tools diagnose their health condition, but see promise in technologies that use AI…
Millions of people already chat about their mental health with large language models (LLMs), the conversational form of artificial intelligence. Some providers have integrated LLM-based mental healthcare tools into routine workflows. John Torous,…
Smokers who have recently quit their nicotine use have altered brain activity linked to increased pain sensitivity and a need for more postoperative pain relief. Abstinent smokers experience increased pain sensitivity during withdrawal, to the point that…
Putting Pig Organs in People Is Ok in the Us, but Growing Human Organs in Pigs Is Not – Why Is That?
In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic…
The regulations intended to prevent bioweapons proliferation may be increasing bioweapon risks. Major artificial intelligence (AI) labs have begun to publicly acknowledge that their models possess advanced—and worrying—biological capabilities. Between June and…
Long-term antidepressant use in Australia has risen steadily over the past decade, with the largest increase seen in young people aged 10-24, where rates have more than doubled. The finding is from…
Over Reliance on generative AI risks eroding new and future doctors’ critical thinking skills, while potentially reinforcing existing data bias and inequity, warns an editorial published in the online journal BMJ Evidence Based…
