3+ day, 4+ min ago   (842+ words) Most people assume the pancreas sits in front of the large veins that drain the gut and the spleen. In a small share of the population, it does not. A collar of pancreatic tissue loops behind the portal vein and…...

3+ day, 54+ min ago   (898+ words) Bacteria found in 11 patients at a Maryland hospital were genetically matched to samples from the hospital's own water system, according to an investigation published in the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. The organism is Mycobacterium abscessus, a rapidly growing nontuberculous…...

4+ day, 4+ min ago   (776+ words) The most advanced experimental drug for the most common form of adult muscular dystrophy has failed to beat placebo on its main measure, leaving thousands of American families in the same position they were in a week ago, with no…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (984+ words) Patients living with hereditary angioedema now have a specific date to watch. The FDA has accepted the application for lonvoguran ziclumeran, known as lonvo-z, granted it priority review, and set a target decision date of March 10, 2027. Intellia Therapeutics announced the…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (445+ words) Federal and state investigators have published the full account of a cluster of drug-resistant bacterial infections at a Maryland hospital, and the source they identified was the building's own water. The investigation drew in the hospital's infection prevention team, the…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (701+ words) Adults who currently smoked reported higher loneliness scores than those who did not, and their loneliness increased more over the following two years, according to an analysis of more than 50,000 people across 15 European countries presented in Barcelona. The analysis was…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (867+ words) Babies born with a higher genetic risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease showed slower lung function growth between birth and age six, but only among children who grew up breathing the dirtiest air. In children living in cleaner areas, the…...

5+ day, 59+ min ago   (947+ words) Fewer pediatricians report burnout now than at the height of the pandemic, according to a longitudinal study published in Pediatrics, but the researchers who documented the improvement took care to say the remaining level is not reassuring. In 2021, 46.2 percent of…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (953+ words) The study was published in Science Advances. The work was done in mice and in mouse cells, and no part of it has been tested in humans. The finding is counterintuitive in a way that matters for how the public…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (959+ words) Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created an injectable material that turned the empty cavity left behind by a stroke into a place where new blood vessels and nerve fibers could grow, and mice treated with it recovered forelimb movement…...