Researchers discover the eye’s hidden cleanup system
Many of the world’s leading causes of irreversible blindness, including glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration, share a common problem: the buildup of fluid, waste and inflammatory debris in the back…
New evidence on therapies that protect the heart from anticancer drugs
The cardioprotective effects of heart failure treatments in patients with cancer were demonstrated today in a presentation at ESC Cardio-Oncology 2026,1 the annual conference of the European Society of Cardiology’s…
Heart attack. ‘Survival paradox’: Frail men at higher risk of death than women despite better treatment
Pioneering research from the University of Leicester and NIHR challenges the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to heart attack care, adding critical nuance to the debate on sex disparities. A groundbreaking new study…
Bacterial vaccine shows promise as cancer immunotherapy
Columbia researchers have engineered probiotic bacteria that educate the immune system to destroy cancer cells, opening the door for a new class of cancer vaccines that take advantage of bacteria’s…