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Jan 2026
Reading to young children each night improves empathy and creative thinking
A daily bedtime reading routine enhances cognitive empathy and creativity in children, with reflective pauses boosting creative fluency during storytelling.
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15
Jan 2026
What TV gets wrong about cardiac arrest and CPR
Inaccurate TV portrayals of cardiac arrest and CPR could affect viewer perceptions and actions, emphasizing the need for alignment with current guidelines.
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Jan 2026
Personal factors drive risky drinking at work more than job stress
The study identifies age, education, and smoking as critical factors in high-risk drinking among workers, emphasizing the need for targeted interventions.
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Jan 2026
Weekly THC levels reveal when cannabis use becomes a disorder
Weekly cannabis use accurately predicts the risk of developing cannabis use disorder.
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Jan 2026
Study highlights potential of ferroptosis-based approaches to treat cancer
Therapies that target the utilization of fat by tumors and activate a type of cell death dependent on fat molecules may be a promising avenue to treat cancer, according to new research by UTHealth Houston.
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Jan 2026
Immune dysfunction persists after combined TB and HIV therapy
The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack – in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired functionality – following the international gold standard for treating people with latent tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, a team at Texas Biomedical Research Institute reports in Nature Communications.
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Jan 2026
Scientists reveal how cholera bacteria activate toxin genes in the human gut
Cholera remains a major global public health challenge, with an estimated 1.3 to 4 million cases and tens of thousands of deaths reported worldwide each year.
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Jan 2026
UC San Diego project aims to bioprint patient-specific transplantable human livers
Liver failure is one of the most serious and deadly medical conditions, claiming thousands of lives each year as patients in the United States wait for a donor organ.
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Jan 2026
Six week casting proves as effective as surgery for unstable ankle fractures
Wearing a cast for six weeks appears to be no less effective than surgery for healing unstable ankle fractures and carries fewer treatment related harms, finds a clinical trial from Finland published by The BMJ today.
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Jan 2026
Pulse oximeters overestimate blood oxygen levels in patients with darker skin
Fingertip monitors known as pulse oximeters that can be used at home to detect low blood oxygen levels (hypoxaemia) give higher readings for patients with darker than lighter skin tones, finds the largest study on this topic published by The BMJ today.
