An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: There is some microplastics in normal, healthy arteries,” Dr. Ross Clark, a University of New Mexico medical researcher who led the study, told Business Insider before he presented his findings…

A new study projects that CT scans conducted in 2023 may result in around 103,000 future cancer cases in the U.S. due to low-dose ionizing radiation. “[I]t would put CT scans on par with other significant risk factors for cancer, like alcohol consumpti…

“More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as a result of infections that are resistant to antibiotics,” reports the BBC, citing a study by two leading experts in child health that used data from sources includi…

Scientists “demonstrated a promising step toward using a person’s own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal cancers” at America’s National Institutes of Health (or NIH), reports the Washington Post.

But the results were published in Nature Medicine …

Longtime Slashdot reader backslashdot writes: Commentary, video, and a publication in this week’s Nature Neuroscience herald a significant advance in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, enabling speech by decoding electrical activity in the brai…

Scientists in China successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a brain-dead patient, where it functioned for 10 days. The liver, modified to reduce immune rejection, produced key proteins and bile, showing compatibility and offerin…

NPR reports on research “into whether our defenses built up from past flu seasons can offer any protection against H5N1 bird flu.”

So far, the findings offer some reassurance. Antibodies and other players in the immune system may buffer the worst cons…

A newly FDA-approved form of adaptive deep-brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease adjusts electrical stimulation in real time based on an individual’s brain signals, improving symptom control and reducing medication dependence. Scientific Amer…

A blog post from the Stanford University School of Medicine attempts to answer the question: What’s the deal with the gut-brain connection?

It affects your mood, your sleep, even your motivation to exercise. There’s convincing evidence that it’s the …