Two new studies led by researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center provide new insight into how the immune system can successfully be activated against glioblastoma while revealing why these therapies have historically fallen short.

A Cleveland Clinic research team studying alcohol and the brain discovered a new way that alcohol abuse can cause brain dysfunction and damage: through immune cells called microglia. The research also identified a potential new treatment target.

Surgeons have shown that robotic technology can help repair a rare and difficult type of hernia that develops along the side of the abdomen. These hernias are hard to treat because they form near the ribs, pelvis, muscles, nerves and blood vessels.

Is it harmful to your health to lose weight repeatedly and then gain it back again? In a recent article in Nature Reviews Endocrinology, DZD researchers Norbert Stefan and Faidon Magkos of the University of Copenhagen offer an assessment: The deciding factor could be the starting weight. While weight fluctuations appear to be less problematic in people with obesity than is often assumed, they could increase the risk of developing obesity in the long term among people of normal weight.

Women who had genetic testing for inherited cancer risk years ago may want to ask about testing again, experts say.

VIB researchers have developed a new human stem-cell-based model that recreates an early stage of immune-cell development and shows how a single progenitor population can give rise to specialized macrophages across different organs. The model provides a platform to study how these processes change in disease, and how they might eventually be harnessed therapeutically.

Confirmed cases in Congo's Ebola outbreak have surpassed 9,000, with more than 4,300 deaths, as health authorities struggle to contain an outbreak spreading across seven provinces, according to government figures released Tuesday.

A fusion-loop-engineered vaccine against the Zika virus (ZIKV) has shown promise in a nonhuman primate model. The research was reported in Cell Reports Medicine on Oct. 7.

About 1 in 5 U.S. women experience maternal mental health conditions, and chronic stress during pregnancy can increase the risk of both maternal and child health challenges. While researchers know this stress can increase the risk of brain and mental health disorders in children, they have not fully understood the biological mechanism involved.

Research published today by University of Sydney researchers has found that both sexual assault and family violence-related assault involving children increased sharply across Australia from 2014 to 2024, with violence accelerating in the last three to five years.