Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Teenage girls who avoid meat in favor of a plant-based diet are at higher risk of developing an iron deficiency, according to our latest research.

A University of Iowa-led research team has found that urinary incontinence may be associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease in women. The work is published in the journal Preventive Medicine.

Adapted Argentine tango dance therapy is helping some breast cancer survivors regain natural balance and sensation after experiencing neuropathy, a common side effect of chemotherapy treatment. Expansion of a new clinical study will look further at how this musical movement intervention can “rewire” the brain to improve function after chemotherapy-related nerve changes.

The global outbreak of mpox in 2022–23 affected more than 100 countries and grabbed the attention of the scientific community. Research on mpox has intensified since.

We’ve long known that environmental factors—from humidity and temperature to trace chemical vapors—can influence how pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria and fungi, behave once released into the air. These tiny droplets of respiratory fluid, or aerosols, carry viruses and bacteria and can float for minutes or even hours. But while we’ve been busy focusing on physical distancing and surface cleaning, a quieter factor may have been playing a much bigger role in airborne disease transmission all along: carbon dioxide (CO₂).

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis—a disease caused by parasitic worms and second only to malaria in terms of potential harm—have been revealed by researchers at Penn State.

Measles is one of the most challenging diseases to control. It requires a sustained uptake of well over 90% of two doses of a measles-containing vaccine such as MMR. But since the COVID pandemic, there has been a decline in the uptake of routine vaccines in many countries, including the US, Canada and Europe, resulting in outbreaks of the disease.

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance.

U.S. measles cases topped 700 as of Friday, capping a week in which Indiana joined five others states with active outbreaks, Texas grew by another 60 cases and a third measles-related death was made public.

A study presented at ESCMID Global 2025 has uncovered the potential of interleukin-6 (IL-6) as a powerful diagnostic biomarker for the early detection of sepsis in high-risk patient groups, including neonates, children and pregnant women. This study is the first to evaluate IL-6’s diagnostic performance in a real-world cohort across all three populations.