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A new study published in Canada says burnout is prompting emergency physicians to leave the specialty or reduce their practice hours, adding to a growing body of research pointing to Canada’s health care crisis. CMJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.251863. ”The most common theme was that the health care system is broken.,” wrote Dr. Kerstin de Wit, an emergency physician and thrombosis physician at Kingston Health Sciences Center and a professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and co-authors.Emergency departments were found to be struggling with system deficiencies, with low staffing and support, repeatedly citing expectations that the situation would…

Months to years before symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) appear, the levels of certain blood proteins can change dramatically. Researchers analyzed data from the long-term National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Presymptomatic Familial ALS (Pre-fALS) study to identify a lineup of key proteins that may predict the emergence of clinically apparent ALS. By predicting the onset of symptoms, researchers may be able to intervene with preventive treatments before the irreversible motor neuron damage that characterizes ALS begins. In the past, if someone with an ALS-related genetic mutation had asked me when they would experience symptoms, I would have struggled…

NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday after an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station. He returned with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev. The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft landed safely by parachute on July 26 at 5:27 a.m. CDT (3:27 p.m. Kazakhstan time) southeast of Zhezkazgan. The crew departed the space station at 2:03 a.m. Williams and his crew have spent 241 days in space since launching to the International Space Station on November 27, 2025. During their mission, they orbited the Earth 3,856 times and traveled more than 102 million miles. This flight was…

Researchers have found that misleading online content, from fluoride myths to DIY dentistry, is widespread, but there is still little direct evidence that it changes patient behavior or clinical outcomes. Research: Online oral health misinformation and information quality: A scoping review. Image credit: PeopleImages/Shutterstock.com recent BDJ open A scoping review mapped how oral health misinformation and the quality of online information are defined, measured, and reported. We also investigated whether patient-level outcomes were directly investigated. The problem of misinformation in healthcare Misinformation in healthcare refers to false, misleading, or unconfirmed information that can influence public perception or patient decisions. It…

Novogene Europe, a multi-omics research services partner, today announced that it has expanded its single-cell RNA sequencing capabilities at its Cambridge Omics Center. This expansion brings single-cell sequencing workflows built around the 10x Genomics Chromium platform even closer to academic, biotech and biopharmaceutical researchers in the UK. The service builds on Novogene Europe’s established single-cell expertise, including existing capabilities in Germany, and combines expert project support, sequencing infrastructure, and bioinformatics analysis to enable researchers to derive deeper biological insights from complex samples and meet the growing demand for accessible single-cell transcriptomics. This announcement follows the launch of the Untargeted Metabolomics…

Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI).Some common pesticides, including the controversial herbicide glyphosate, cause genetic damage to people’s cells at very low exposure levels, according to a new study. These cellular changes are sometimes called “genotoxic” and are associated with cancer. The findings suggest that current pesticide testing and regulations do not fully capture how pesticides can harm people. The new research Global Health JournalThey tested 10 different pesticides that people are exposed to and found that eight of them damage or change the DNA of human cells. For the herbicide glyphosate, researchers found cell…

Scientists have discovered the first direct evidence that genetic genetics strongly influence cancer risk and may help determine how tumors develop over time. The results show that the genes a person is born with can interact with mutations acquired later in life to shape the evolutionary path that tumors follow. This finding may help explain why people living in similar environments can face very different cancer risks. It also suggests that future approaches to cancer prevention and screening may need to take into account genetics and the diversity found across human populations. Published in naturemouse studies have also shown that…

Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, a Danaher company and a global leader in clinical diagnostics, today announced the U.S. launch of the DxU 1800 System, a fully automated urine testing solution that combines new chemistry analyzers and consumables with proven microscopy technology. Announced at the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM) Annual Scientific Meeting and Clinical Laboratory Expo, the system is designed to help laboratories deliver standardized results at scale, allowing clinicians to confidently move from testing to decision-making. The Beckman Coulter Diagnostics DxU 1800 System is a fully automated urine analysis solution that combines new chemistry analyzers and consumables with…

A prototype smart ring that analyzes sweat in real-time could push wearable health tracking beyond fitness metrics, giving researchers a glimpse at how future devices can continuously monitor key metabolic biomarkers without repeating blood tests. Research: A fully integrated smart ring for daily biochemical monitoring. Image credit: PeopleImages/Shutterstock.com A prototype smart ring that continuously tracks multiple biochemical markers in sweat could bring lab-style metabolic monitoring to your finger. This wearable device measures up to four biomarkers simultaneously, including glucose, ketones, uric acid, lactate, ascorbic acid, and alcohol, providing real-time insights into metabolic health. This study nature communications. Smart rings extend…

When students return to UT Health Houston’s McGovern School of Medicine this year, they will be able to participate in hands-on experiences in nutrition, including cooking demonstrations in the teaching kitchen, tours of the campus’s “Holistic Garden,” and the opportunity to take elective courses focused on culinary medicine. These immersive programs are a response to Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy’s call to teach more nutrition in medical schools as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to address the rise in chronic disease in the United States. Kennedy said part of the problem is that doctors don’t routinely discuss diet…