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Jan 2026
Artificial empathy in healthcare platforms and future directions
Healthcare and therapy systems face a worsening workforce shortage, creating an urgent need for technologies that can support or augment human roles.
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Jan 2026
RSV prevention: A new era for infant protection
Globally, RSV causes millions of respiratory infections each year and is responsible for a large proportion of hospitalizations and deaths among children under five years, with the highest risk concentrated in infants under six months.
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Jan 2026
Researchers identify hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells
An international research team identified hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells, including one gene linked to a severe neurodevelopmental disorder not previously described.
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Jan 2026
Progesterone mimic plus anti-estrogen treatment slows tumor growth in breast cancer patients
A drug mimicking the hormone progesterone has anti-cancer activity when used together with conventional anti-estrogen treatment for women with breast cancer, a new Cambridge-led trial has found.
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Jan 2026
To knock down health-system hurdles between you and HIV prevention, try these 6 things
A couple of years ago, Matthew Hurley got the kind of text people fear.
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Jan 2026
Two bacterial shutdown modes explain antibiotic persistence and relapse
New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not just the classic idea of dormancy.
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Jan 2026
Self-sabotage may reflect the brain’s need for control and safety
Self-harming and self-sabotaging behaviors, from skin picking to ghosting people, all stem from evolutionary survival mechanisms, according to a compelling new psychological analysis.
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Jan 2026
Ancient genomes reveal Iron Age origins of human herpesvirus 6
For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old.
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Jan 2026
Weaker and fragmented circadian rhythms linked to higher dementia risk
Circadian rhythms that are weaker and more fragmented are linked to an increased risk of dementia, according to a new study published on December 29, 2025, in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Jan 2026
Irregular collagen in uterine scars linked to placenta accreta development
Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) used to be a rare pregnancy condition, but it now affects roughly 14,000 pregnancies annually, posing a major cause of maternal death.
