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Decaf coffee may be the last thing on your mind if you’re looking for an afternoon caffeine hit to get you through to the end of the working day.  But if you want to wake up feeling well rested, experts say you should reconsider.  New research has found that drinking just two cups of coffee after midday could be enough …

Millions taking a common painkiller could be unwittingly raising their risk of suffering from dementia and memory problems. That’s the warning from researchers in Ohio, who tracked people prescribed gabapentin – often sold under the brand name Neurontin – for more than a decade after their first dose. The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine journal, concluded that …

8 Healthy ‘Three-Parent’ Babies Born in UK Using Pioneering IVF Technique  Gizmodo Babies made using three people’s DNA are born free of hereditary disease  BBC Three-person IVF technique spared children from inherited diseases, scientists say  Reuters How a third parent’s DNA can prevent an inherited disease  NPR Healthy babies born from DNA of three people to prevent inherited diseases  NBC News Source link

Scientists have discovered that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine may increase the risk of eye damage, leading to vision loss.  The new study specifically examined how the vaccine affected patients’ corneas, the clear front part of the eye that allows light to enter. In 64 people, scientists in Turkey measured changes in the cornea’s inner layer, called the endothelium, before taking the first Pfizer dose …

Young people appear to be increasingly vulnerable to gastrointestinal cancers, but researchers aren’t entirely sure what is driving the surge in disease. In a new study out this week, scientists led by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that rates of early-onset GI cancers—those occurring in people younger than 50—are rising more rapidly than other types of cancer. In particular, colorectal …

Blindness, pneumonia, severe diarrhoea and even death – measles virus infections, especially in children, can have devastating consequences. Fortunately, we have a safe and effective defence. Measles vaccines are estimated to have averted more than 60 million deaths between 2000 and 2023. Yet despite this success, measles cases are rising sharply in the UK and around the world. This global …

There are at least four distinct subtypes of autism, a new study finds, helping to explain the various trajectories of individuals on the spectrum and offering a path toward more targeted treatments. Researchers grouped over 5,000 children ages 4 to 18 with autism based on more than 230 traits like social interactions, repetitive behaviors and developmental milestones to arrive at …

Information on mobility, phone usage, sleep-wake patterns, and other passive data collected by smartphones is associated with behavioral markers linked to multiple forms of psychopathology, including general mental health burden, new research showed. In a large observational study of community-based adults, researchers found that smartphone sensors that measure daily activities captured distinct behavioral signatures that may help identify when mental …

Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. In a new study, researchers have uncovered how exercise might help the immune system fight cancer: by changing the gut microbiome in a way that boosts production of a compound called formate. This microbial byproduct, the study shows, plays a key role in helping immune cells slow tumor growth—at least in mice. The study, published in Cell, …

Barbara W. Trautner, Nicolas W. Cortes-Penfield, Kalpana Gupta, Elizabeth B. Hirsch, Molly Horstman, Gregory J. Moran, Richard Colgan, John C. O’Horo, Muhammed S. Ashraf, Shannon Connolly, Dimitri M. Drekonja, Larissa Grigoryan, Angela Huttner, Gweneth Lazenby, Lindsay Nicolle, Anthony Schaeffer, Sigal Yawetz, Valéry Lavergne July 17, 2025 IDSA has released the first IDSA guidelines on management and treatment of complicated …