» This tiny implant could save diabetics from silent, deadly crashes
10/07/25 14:00 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
MIT engineers have developed a tiny implantable device that could revolutionize emergency treatment for people with Type 1 diabetes. The device contains a powdered form of glucagon and can be remotely triggered—either manually or automat...

» Your Brain’s Hidden Defenses Against Alzheimer’s
10/07/25 10:00 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
Scientists at UCSF combined advanced brain-network modeling, genetics, and imaging to reveal how tau protein travels through neural highways and how certain genes either accelerate its toxic journey or shield brain regions from damage. T...

» Study finds tummy-tuck patients still shedding pounds five years later
07/07/25 12:05 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
Patients who undergo tummy tuck surgery may be in for more than just cosmetic changes — a new study shows they often keep losing weight for years after the procedure. Researchers followed 188 patients and found consistent weight reductio...

» Feeling mental exhaustion? These two areas of the brain may control whether people give up or persevere
07/07/25 08:34 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
When you're mentally exhausted, your brain might be doing more behind the scenes than you think. In a new study using functional MRI, researchers uncovered two key brain regions that activate when people feel cognitively fatigued—regions...

» Multisensory VR forest reboots your brain and lifts mood—study confirms
06/07/25 12:17 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
Immersing stressed volunteers in a 360° virtual Douglas-fir forest complete with sights, sounds and scents boosted their mood, sharpened short-term memory and deepened their feeling of nature-connectedness—especially when all three sense...

» New tech tracks blood sodium without a single needle
06/07/25 08:16 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
Scientists have pioneered a new way to monitor sodium levels in the blood—without drawing a single drop. By combining terahertz radiation and optoacoustic detection, they created a non-invasive system that tracks sodium in real time, eve...

» Scientists reverse Parkinson’s symptoms in mice — Could humans be next?
06/07/25 03:13 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
Scientists at the University of Sydney have uncovered a malfunctioning version of the SOD1 protein that clumps inside brain cells and fuels Parkinson’s disease. In mouse models, restoring the protein’s function with a targeted copper sup...

» AI spots deadly heart risk most doctors can't see
03/07/25 13:55 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
An advanced Johns Hopkins AI model called MAARS combs through underused heart MRI scans and complete medical records to spot hidden scar patterns that signal sudden cardiac death, dramatically outperforming current dice-roll clinical gui...

» Even low levels of air pollution may quietly scar your heart, MRI study finds
03/07/25 13:37 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
Breathing polluted air—even at levels considered “safe”—may quietly damage your heart. A new study using advanced MRI scans found that people exposed to more air pollution showed early signs of scarring in their heart muscle, which can l...

» A midlife MRI that spots rapid aging and signals disease long before symptoms
02/07/25 11:52 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
A new brain scan tool shows how quickly your body and mind are aging. It can spot early signs of diseases like dementia, long before symptoms begin. The scan looks at hidden clues in your brain to predict future health.

» Ultrafast 12-minute MRI maps brain chemistry to spot disease before symptoms
02/07/25 04:28 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
Illinois engineers fused ultrafast imaging with smart algorithms to peek at living brain chemistry, turning routine MRIs into metabolic microscopes. The system distinguishes healthy regions, grades tumors, and forecasts MS flare-ups long...

» This AI tracks lung tumors as you breathe — and it might save lives
30/06/25 13:05 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
An AI system called iSeg is reshaping radiation oncology by automatically outlining lung tumors in 3D as they shift with each breath. Trained on scans from nine hospitals, the tool matched expert clinicians, flagged cancer zones some mis...

» Brain scan breakthrough reveals why Parkinson’s drugs don’t always work
29/06/25 08:35 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
Researchers are using an advanced brain imaging method called MEG to understand why Parkinson’s drug levodopa doesn’t work equally well for everyone. By mapping patients’ brain signals before and after taking the drug, they discovered th...

» This brain scan sees Alzheimer’s coming—but only in some brains
29/06/25 08:13 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
USC researchers have found a promising new brain scan marker that could better detect Alzheimer’s risk — but only for some. The tau-based benchmark works in Hispanic and White populations when paired with another Alzheimer’s protein, amy...

» A tiny implant just helped paralyzed rats walk again—is human recovery next?
28/06/25 14:33 from ScienceDaily: Today's Healthcare News
A groundbreaking study from the University of Auckland and Chalmers University of Technology is offering new hope for spinal cord injury patients. Researchers have developed an ultra-thin implant that delivers gentle electric currents di...