Have a sore throat this fall? You’re not alone and a common culprit could be to blame Cranking up the heat as days grow colder could be making it worse The Independent UK · Oct 23
Air Purifiers Added to 68 Operating Rooms Did Not Cut Surgical Infections Across More Than 110,000 Operations A trial of 110,538 operations found that adding operating room air purifiers did not lower infections. See how the blinded swap worked and what it means. Medical Daily · Oct 21
Two Copies of CD36 Variant Linked to Nearly Fivefold Dilated Cardiomyopathy Odds in People of African Ancestry A JAMA study links two copies of a common CD36 variant to nearly fivefold odds of dilated cardiomyopathy in people of African ancestry. What it means. Medical Daily · Oct 21
Doctors Urge Anyone With Clusters Of White Spots On Their Skin Or Intimate Areas Not To Ignore Them Katy Perry is among the celebrities whose white spots have drawn attention in close-up shots from red carpet appearances and paparazzi sightings. Bored Panda · Oct 16
A Young Man's Itchy Netlike Rash Was Traced to Keto, and Doctors Have Seen It After Fasting Too A 20-year-old's itchy, netlike rash was traced to his keto diet. The same rare rash has been tied to fasting, diabetes, and eating disorders. Medical Daily · Oct 16
These are the common infections that can cause cancer - and how to protect yourself Just getting a tattoo or sharing food can leave people at risk The Independent UK · Oct 14
Milky White Urine Led Doctors to a Hidden Leak Between the Lymphatic System and the Urinary Tract A milky urine sample led doctors to chyluria, a rare condition in which fat-rich lymph fluid leaks into the urine through an abnormal channel. Medical Daily · Oct 14
Pope Leo Announces He Is Undergoing Surgery: Here's What It Means for the Pontiff Pope Leo XIV says he will undergo surgery in Rome after doctors found a small, localised lung nodule. The Vatican has not disclosed its nature, while well-wishes have followed. International Business Times UK · Oct 12
NYC woman falls down subway stairs while running for a train. Now, she has to get a one-sided BBL: ‘I realized there was a dent there’ “Honey. never run for a train.” We Got This Covered · Oct 11
A Woman Passed a Uterus-Shaped Piece of Tissue Without the Hormone Drugs Often Linked to It A 36-year-old woman shed her uterine lining as one intact, womb-shaped cast, a rare event doctors say happened without any hormone drugs. Medical Daily · Oct 9
At full term, mother induces labor and births her ‘perfect’ son. Then, between ‘so many tears,’ she says goodbye “I share this for any mother who walks this journey after me.” We Got This Covered · Oct 7
A Teen's Narcolepsy Dose Went Up, Then She Began Eating in Her Sleep with No Memory of It A 15-year-old with narcolepsy began eating in her sleep after a sodium oxybate dose increase. A lower dose and safety steps ended it. Medical Daily · Oct 7
Ray J Health Update: Singer Reportedly States That His 'Health Is Not OK' After Hospitalisation in LA Ray J remains in hospital after a medical emergency during a livestream in Los Angeles. His representative confirmed he is resting, but no diagnosis has been disclosed. International Business Times UK · Oct 4
A 20-Year-Old's Suspected Ovarian Tumor Turned Out to Be Her Own Wandering Spleen A young woman's pelvic mass looked like an ovarian germ cell tumor. A missing spleen on imaging hinted that the organ had drifted into her pelvis. Medical Daily · Oct 2
Medical Daily · Oct 2 Hiccups Lasting Over Two Days Have a Medical Name, and One Smoker's Hidden Lung Abscess Shows Why Hiccups lasting over 48 hours count as persistent. In Lebanon, they were a 65-year-old smoker's only complaint, and a lung abscess was the cause.
Medical Daily · Oct 1 A Bony Spike from a Man's Skull Grew to About 9 Centimeters and Wore Into a Bone in His Throat A 69-year-old's styloid bone grew to about 9 cm, eroding his hyoid and making swallowing painful. Surgeons removed about 7.5 cm through his neck.
Medical Daily · Sep 29 Nearly Every Broken Thighbone Sends Fat into the Blood, but Weight May Help Decide Who Gets Sick Fat enters the blood in most thighbone fractures but rarely causes illness. A finger-injury case adds to the evidence that obesity raises the risk.
Medical Daily · Sep 28 AbbVie's Once-Daily Parkinson's Pill Juvmo Wins FDA Approval, with Nausea, Dizziness, and Headache Common in Trials The FDA approved Juvmo (tavapadon), AbbVie's once-daily Parkinson's pill. Here's how it works, which side effects trials found, and what to ask.
Medical Daily · Sep 22 Cleveland Clinic Swab Program Found 34 Newborns with CMV, a Virus That Newborn Hearing Tests Can Miss A Cleveland Clinic program screened nearly 7,500 newborns and found 34 with congenital CMV. Here is what parents can ask before discharge.
Medical Daily · Sep 21 Black Stool Looked Like a Dangerous Bleed, but Doctors Traced It to Four Packets of Chocolate Sandwich Cookies A man's black, tarry colostomy output looked like internal bleeding. Doctors traced it to chocolate cookies, then proved it with a rerun.
Medical Daily · Sep 15 A Toddler's Slow-Growing Eyelid Lump Turned Out to Be a Tumor Reported in Only Two Children Before Her An 18-month-old's slow-growing eyelid lump was a conjunctival stromal tumor, making her the youngest of just three children reported with it.
The National (Scotland) · Sep 12 It might feel slow but getting out into world and feeling almost normal is progress It might feel slow but getting out into world and feeling almost normal is progress
The Independent UK · Sep 5 The recommended health screenings at every age: explained Some 90 percent of Americans aren’t keeping up with screenings, according to a 2025 poll
Medical Daily · Sep 5 A 23-Day-Old Baby's Toe Turned Blue and the Culprit Was a Single Strand of His Mother's Hair A newborn's swollen, dusky toe was traced to a maternal hair wound tight enough to cut off blood flow. Symptoms cleared within 24 hours.
The Independent UK · Sep 3 The Latest: Deadlocked jury in Lindsay Clancy trial returns for sixth day of deliberation It's the sixth day of deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial