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MedPage Today
August 12, 2025
Physician attire—namely, white coats—affected patients’ perceptions of professionalism, trust, and communication, a systematic review indicated. However, patient preferences for such attire depended on clinical environment, medical specialty, physician gender, and the context of care, including the COVID-19 pandemic, reported Bo-Young Youn of Hwasung Medi-Science University in Hwaseong-si, South Korea, and colleagues in The BMJ.

Medical News Today
August 9, 2025
While we can try to slow it down, human aging is something we currently can’t stop from happening. However, past studies show that aging doesn’t necessarily happen at the same pace throughout our life. According to a new study published recently in the journal Cell, the human body experiences rapid changes around age 50.

MedicalNewsToday
August 4, 2025
Getting enough quality sleep every night is important for good health, but the extent it affects overall health is still being researched. A new study has linked 172 different diseases, including dementia, diabetes, and Parkinson’s disease to poor sleep patterns. Of those diseases, 92 of them had over 20% of their risk correlated with poor sleep behavior.

MedPage Today
July 30, 2025
Common respiratory infections such as COVID-19 and the flu may be able to awaken dormant breast cancer cells that have spread to the lungs and promote the development of new metastatic tumors, researchers suggested.

Using findings from a mouse model, this conclusion was corroborated with observational data in humans that showed increases in death and metastatic lung disease among cancer survivors infected with SARS-CoV-2, reported James DeGregori, PhD, of the University of Colorado Cancer Center in Aurora, and colleagues in Nature.

NPR
July 28, 2025
Scientists have unveiled the strongest evidence yet that a combination of diet, exercise and brain training can improve thinking and memory in older Americans.

ScienceNews
July 28, 2025
Our brains might prime our immune system merely by seeing someone who looks sick. A study published July 28 in Nature Neuroscience found that participants who saw sick-looking faces in virtual reality showed changes in brain activity related to personal space monitoring and threat detection. Additionally, the activity of certain immune cells in the blood increased. The study is “unique in demonstrating that people’s immune system can be primed just by the visual recognition that someone looks sick,” says Michael Irwin, a psychoneuroimmunologist at UCLA who was not involved in the work. “That’s really remarkable.”