Category: 4. Health

These sugars, called glycans, help cells recognize and communicate with each other. They also act as a cellular “signature,” with each subtype of pancreatic cancer cell possessing a different composition of glycans.

The new method, multiplexed glycan immunofluorescence, combines specialized software…

Although last week’s extensive tariff announcements exempted pharmaceuticals, President Trump has repeatedly maintained that he will eventually impose tariffs on the industry. The tariffs, touted as a remedy to our global vulnerabilities, have thrust the long-ignored flaws of our drug supply chain into the spotlight.

While tariffs are not a silver bullet, they are a critical catalyst for overdue change. They force the…

What an extraordinary moment in medical history: science has handed us the superpower to eradicate HIV/AIDS. Lenacapavir, a once-a-year injection, can treat HIV, prevent transmission, and stop new infections—all with a single shot. This breakthrough opens the door to eliminating HIV from humanity entirely. Yet, instead of seizing this opportunity, the United States retreats from its global leadership role in infectious disease control. In a cruel twist of…

Try to picture being completely conscious and mentally able — but not being able to speak. For people afflicted with paralysis or locked-in syndrome, that is a daily reality. However, a revolutionary brain-to-speech AI software, created by scientists at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, is hoping to change that — by…

Americans at all wealth levels are more likely to die sooner than their European counterparts, with even the richest U.S. citizens living shorter lives than northern and western Europeans. That is the key finding of our new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

We also found that while the wealthiest Americans live longer than the poorest, the wealth-mortality gap in the U.S. is far more pronounced than in Europe.

We are a team of health policy researchers who study…

A lot of research has been done on the outcomes of young children who receive care in early education programs across the country. High-quality early childhood education programs positively shape young children’s development. Far less research has focused on the early childhood workforce that powers these programs.

We set out to better understand how to support workers who care for our youngest and most vulnerable children.

Workers who provide care for children under 5, such as…

Morphine has been the mainstay for treating pain since the Civil War. Although doctors recognized long ago that prolonged use of morphine can lead to addiction, nothing changed…

What’s your idea of fun? How about getting a medical test and waiting for the test results? Yeah, few people would take a medical test just for the fun of it or simply to “get away from it all.” Typically, when you undergo a medical test, it is to look for something in you. And that…

In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers describe how this drug compound provides pain relief without the dangerous side effects commonly associated with opioids administered to patients. The National Institutes of Health funded the study.

The human body…

Every day in emergency departments around the world, the toll of aging is evident: falls, fractures, strokes, and heart attacks in older adults. Even when patients survive the initial event, hospital stays are often prolonged. Rehabilitation may follow, but in many cases, the result is a permanent loss of independence. These outcomes are frequently the consequence of…