Two states are suing a major cord blood storage company, claiming it misled parents about the benefits of saving their newborn's stem cells.

Physical pain, heart-related sensations and repetitive negative thinking are among the most commonly reported symptoms of depression in South Asian communities—yet none appear in the diagnostic criteria used to screen for depressive disorders in the U.S., according to a new review led by the University of Surrey.

Since 2023, more e-bikes have been sold in Germany than conventional bicycles. But the number of crashes has been rising just as sharply. Doctors at the Technical University of Munich's TUM University Hospital analyzed patterns in e-bike crashes and found that older men face a particularly high risk of serious injury. The data also revealed clear patterns in the underlying risk factors.

Health care workers who take on extended or overnight shifts, particularly during periods of operational strain, may face heightened fatigue that can affect their own well-being. This fatigue arises not from individual effort or commitment, but from the physiological challenges created when work demands intersect with the body's internal clock.

Most people think of Alzheimer's disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin much earlier—sometime around the third decade of life.

A new analysis of existing studies co-led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst public health researcher finds that nicotine e-cigarettes consistently help adults quit smoking, a conclusion that emerges with striking agreement across nearly a decade of studies.

For patients undergoing body contouring surgery to remove excess abdominal skin after massive weight loss, use of GLP-1 weight-loss medications may have mixed effects on complication risks, suggests a study in the April issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Global maternal deaths have declined over the past three decades, yet progress has slowed in recent years and remains uneven across countries, according to new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2023 research published in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women's Health .

An international team of experts recently came together to update sepsis care guidelines for adults for the first time since 2021. The updates have profound implications for the management of sepsis, which is responsible for approximately 11 million deaths per year worldwide. Co-led by U-M's Hallie Prescott, M.D. and Massimo Antonelli, M.D. of Catholic University in Rome, Italy, the 69-person panel reviewed research, concentrating on areas of care that may have new evidence supporting a change in practice.

For decades, scientists studying brain disorders have focused almost exclusively on proteins and the genes encoding them. Now, research from Thomas Jefferson University's Computational Medicine Center suggests that several classes of small regulatory molecules, fittingly known as small RNAs, may play a much larger role in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and in a healthy brain, than previously thought.