An end to the battle between touchscreens and long fingernails is on the horizon
Anybody who tried to use a smartphone or tablet with long nails knows that there’s a learning curve. Rather than effortlessly tapping with a fingertip, you must awkwardly lay the…
59.000 deaths: Europe off track for sustainable development goal targets for HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, and STIs
Despite advancements in detection and treatment, a new report reveals severe shortfalls in reaching the indicators for the Sustainable Development Goal target for HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted…
ECDC: Questions and answers on the hantavirus outbreak in a cruise ship
What is hantavirus and the Andes strain? Hantaviruses are a group of viruses that people usually catch through particles from infected rodents. It can cause serious illness, and the symptoms…
Hantavirus cluster linked to cruise ship travel, Multi-country
On 2 May 2026, a cluster of passengers with severe respiratory illness aboard a cruise ship was reported to the World Health Organization. The ship is carrying 147 passengers and…
Ancestry matters in the cardiac screening of elite footballers
Elite footballers of Black ethnicity show important ancestry-related differences in cardiac adaptation.1 These results were presented today at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2026, the annual congress of the European Association of…
Artificial Intelligence in Nephrology
Kidney diseases develop slowly and may not produce any obvious symptoms for a long time. The body can compensate for them so effectively that the patient remains unaware of the…
Not all Alzheimer’s leads to dementia
Some brains resist Alzheimer’s, even when the disease is already present. Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have found that this likely depends on how specific brain cells, known…
Physician’s medical decisions benefit from AI, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are getting pretty good at diagnosing some diseases, even when they are complex. But how do chatbots do when guiding treatment and care after the diagnosis? For…
Promise and limits of robotics in lung transplantation. ISHLT meeting
The expanding use of robotic technology in lung transplantation came under scrutiny at t46th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), where…
More children are surviving long enough for heart transplants but not enough hearts exist
Advances in pediatric heart care are helping more children survive long enough to receive a transplant—but a critical shortage of donor hearts means too many are still dying while they…