5+ hour, 32+ min ago  (489+ words) Adaptive sound control could help those with hearing loss It can be difficult to carry on conversation in a crowded public setting, and even more so with any degree of hearing loss. But what if you could amplify only the…...

4+ hour, 34+ min ago  (809+ words) What exactly did the study find? How meaningful were the differences? Should pregnant women start taking higher doses of vitamin D? And what do experts say are the risks of taking too much? To help us with these questions, I…...

6+ hour, 39+ min ago  (807+ words) When your cholesterol numbers come back a little high, it's easy to point straight to that extra helping of Alfredo sauce. But as it turns out, diet is only one piece of the puzzle. "Cholesterol is often oversimplified as a…...

7+ hour, 9+ min ago  (746+ words) A medical startup says it is using disembodied human brains in new drug development research targeting neurodegenerative diseases, a practice that may draw unsettling comparisons to the science fiction trope of a living brain in a jar." The brains of…...

8+ hour, 1+ min ago  (873+ words) Brain scans after a lacunar stroke often look clean, with no obvious blocked artery and no dramatic narrowing. Doctors prescribe the standard drugs because that's what the evidence suggests. The problem, however, is that those drugs may be targeting the…...

3+ hour, 7+ min ago  (889+ words) When Dr. Leonard Verhey, "18, reflects on his trajectory to becoming a neurosurgeon, he doesn"t start in an operating room or a research lab, he starts at Central Michigan University. "It all started at CMU," he said. "That was the…...

3+ hour, 19+ min ago  (645+ words) Lexi Brown has been paralysed below the neck - after catching the flu A 14-year-old had a spontaneous stroke after catching the flu - leaving her paralysed below the neck. Lexi Brown, now 15, caught the flu in December and was off school…...

10+ hour, 3+ min ago  (831+ words) Twenty-six-year-old Sneha was terrified. One morning, while getting ready for work, she suddenly found that her right leg would not move properly. She struggled to walk and felt as if the leg had 'stopped listening to her brain. Her family…...

12+ hour, 36+ min ago  (432+ words) San Francisco, CA - May 24, 2026 - As burnout, workplace exhaustion, and emotional depletion continue rising across industries, behavioral health leader and #1 International Best-Selling Author Kali Fields Williams is offering a fundamentally different approach: stop treating people like machines. Her new book, Renewable…...

14+ hour, 33+ min ago  (267+ words) Cardiac Health is celebrating its 50th birthday with a special talk from the man who brought cardiac rehab through exercise to Alton - Dr Hugh Bethell. His exerciser talk, called Don't Kill Granny, will be held at the Alton Assembly Rooms on…...