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For many people, news of a virus outbreak on a cruise ship immediately brings back memories of COVID spreading when the Ruby Princess docked in Sydney in March 2020. Of the passengers and crew who disembarked, 575 had COVID. The virus then spread to the community.

While much is mysterious about the aging process, change over time remains its cornerstone. The biological shifts that accompany aging seemingly occur in many cells in the body. The problem is, we have tens of billions of cells, and what the changes may be in most of those cells remains unknown, in part due to traditional technical limitations.

When care teams screen older adults undergoing surgery for risk factors such as falls and delirium, they are able to improve the care and outcomes of this rapidly growing and uniquely vulnerable patient population, according to findings published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Most prostate cancers rely on male sex hormones, known as androgens, to grow. As a result, standard treatment focuses on lowering androgen levels or blocking their activity, but many tumors eventually become resistant and the disease returns.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared ArteraAI Breast for use in patients with early-stage, hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative invasive breast cancer.

Diabetes is the most common and serious chronic disease worldwide, characterized by insufficient insulin to maintain proper blood glucose levels. It affects more than 12% of Americans and is the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S., with an estimated economic cost of more than $400 billion annually.

While some people can spring out of bed at six in the morning and go straight into their day, others prefer to wake up later as they’re most productive in the afternoon or evening. This difference is due to your chronotype—the biological tendency to prefer certain times of day for sleep, waking and activity.

Scientists are tweaking a powerful cancer therapy in hopes it could fight HIV instead, by supercharging patients’ own immune cells.

A University of California, Riverside preclinical study is shedding light on a long-observed but poorly understood phenomenon: chronic cannabis users tend to have lower body weight and a reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes, despite the drug’s well-known tendency to increase appetite.

We feel more anxious when facing uncertain or unpredictable situations, but for those who score higher on autistic traits, this anxiety tends to be stronger. Published in Scientific Reports, a new study suggests uncertainty-driven anxiety plays a role in how people manage their emotions.