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In two Indigenous communities living pre-industrial lifestyles in the Bolivian Amazon, dementia is remarkably uncommon.

Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and an inadequate response to standard antidepressants who received an add- on treatment with the drug lumateperone saw significantly improved sexual function, found a new study led by a University of Virginia School of Medicine researcher.

Has your partner ever woken you up at night with their coughing? Has your coughing ever woken them up? New research suggests it could be due to air pollution levels in your area, even if those levels are low.

A new study has revealed why some people with Huntington disease develop symptoms 10 to 12 years earlier and experience a more aggressive form of the disease.

Metabotropic glutamate receptors, which are important but difficult drug targets, interact in surprisingly varied ways with their principal regulatory proteins, according to two new studies led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

Inflammation associated with asthma and other allergic airway diseases can be significantly worsened by exposure to both house dust mite allergens and crystalline silica, according to a new study published in the journal Allergy.

Air pollution leads to different risk of bacterial pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis, depending on the subtype of bacteria a person has, new research suggests.

Contradicting conventional wisdom, menopause may not be the driving force behind an increase in aortic stiffness in women after midlife, according to new, independent research published today in Hypertension, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Heart Association journal.

When women take part in breast cancer screening, they are informed that screening may detect cancers that would never have caused symptoms or problems during their lifetime. This is known as overdiagnosis.

Much like a courier reading an address on a package, neurons must deliver RNA to the precise locations where it is needed.

A large-scale, federally funded quality improvement program developed in collaboration with infection prevention experts at the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality was associated with a 65% reduction in hospital-onset bloodstream infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among participating hospital units.

Patients with metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose disease progressed following PD-(L)1 inhibitor therapy experienced a median overall survival of 18.5 months with the investigational anti-CTLA-4 antibody gotistobart compared with 10.0 months for patients receiving docetaxel, according to updated findings from Stage 1 of the Phase 3 PRESERVE-003 trial.

Mobile low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening can reach high-risk and socially vulnerable populations in resource-limited settings, according to initial results from the Third Brazilian Early Lung Cancer Trial (BRELT3) presented at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) 2026 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC).

An unhealthy Western-style diet was associated with a faster cognitive decline in people with a genetic risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to new research led by Murdoch University and Alzheimer's Research Australia.

Early cranial stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) administered with first-line osimertinib was associated with improved intracranial control and survival outcomes in patients with EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and limited brain metastases, according to research presented at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) 2026 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC).

Patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring class II and class III BRAF alterations have distinct clinicopathologic and genomic characteristics, with class III alterations potentially associated with worse prognosis, according to research presented today at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) 2026 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC).

A newly proposed International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) tumor budding-based grading system successfully identified patients with resected lung squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) at higher risk of poor outcomes and showed potential to help guide selection for adjuvant chemotherapy, according to research presented at the IASLC 2026 World Conference on Lung Cancer on Lung Cancer.

Orexo AB (publ.) today announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for OX640, a nasally administered powder formulation of epinephrine intended for the emergency treatment of anaphylaxis.

New diagnoses of cannabis use disorder (CUD) among adolescents in Northern California began climbing after recreational cannabis was legalized in California in 2016, reversing a steady decline in the three years prior, according to a new study published in the journal Addiction.

In the SWOG S1827 MAVERICK phase III randomized trial, patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) who underwent regular brain MRI surveillance without prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) had significantly better cognitive failure–free survival (the primary endpoint of the trial), without an apparent difference in overall survival, according to results presented at the Presidential Symposium of the IASLC 2026 World Conference on Lung Cancer, hosted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, in Seoul, Republic of Korea.