Progress and challenges in infectious disease surveillance and early warning
March 2025
The increasing incidence of emerging infectious diseases emphasizes the urgent need for timely and accurate global surveillance and early warning systems. In recent years, infectious disease surveillance...
Transforming the landscape of cancer treatment with seven promising novel therapies: evolution and future perspectives
June 2025
The landscape of cancer treatment is rapidly evolving with the emergence of promising novel therapies, offering new hope for patients with challenging malignancies. This review explores key advancements,...
The brain-bone axis: investigating the interaction between the central nervous system and skeletal homeostasis
December 2025
The brain serves as the core component of the central nervous system and plays a pivotal role in regulating the functions of various essential organs throughout the body. The skeletal system serves...
The diagnostic accuracy of physical signs: practice experience compared with research evidence
September 2025
Physical diagnosis is the first course of clinical medicine and the first contact with patients during clinical practice. Evidence-based physical diagnosis is a helpful tool in both education and practice....
Role of natural active pharmaceuticals in the treatment of oral diseases
September 2025
Oral diseases include periodontal and oral tumors. Current treatment methods rely largely on surgical interventions and mechanical cleaning, with a lack of targeted pharmacological therapies. Regardless,...
tRNA methylation in cancer
September 2025
As the most prevalent post-transcriptional modification in transfer RNAs (tRNAs), methylation dynamically and reversibly regulates the biosynthesis and maturation of tRNAs, exerting direct impacts on...
Risk factors for prolonged intensive care unit stay after pediatric cardiac surgery: data from national center for cardiovascular diseases in China
September 2025
After pediatric cardiac surgery, many patients require a prolonged stay in the intensive care unit. These patients require tremendous resources, which adds an additional burden to the healthcare systems....
Annexin A5 confers neuroprotection in ischemic stroke: insights from in vitro and in vivo models
September 2025
Ischemic stroke remains a leading cause of neurological disability worldwide. Effective therapeutic interventions for stroke treatment are still critically needed. Annexin A5, a calcium-dependent phospholipid-binding...
Advancement of disease-modifying therapy of Alzheimer’s disease: from the perspective of new revised criteria for diagnosis and staging of Alzheimer’s disease
December 2025
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) imposes a substantial clinical and societal burden, yet currently approved symptomatic therapies do not modify the underlying disease biology. Recently, three anti-amyloid monoclonal...
Blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease—A guideline for clinical use
December 2024
As the population ages, cognitive disorder has emerged as a prevalent condition among the elderly, with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) being the most common type. This presents a significant social and economic...
Development of tau phosphorylation-targeting therapies for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases
December 2024
Hyperphosphorylation of microtubule-associated protein tau is a major driver in the etiology of multiple neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other tauopathies. Intracellular...
Nitrate and body homeostasis
March 2024
Homeostasis is essential for the maintenance of health, and how it is maintained is the focus of attention in homeostatic medicine. As a natural dietary nutrient, nitrate is critical in regulating homeostasis....
Perspectives of autophagy-tethering compounds (ATTECs) in drug discovery
March 2024
Degrader technologies provide unprecedented strategies to tackle diseases caused by pathogenic proteins that are difficult to target by the traditional inhibitor approach. One pioneering technology,...
Global patterns of cervical cancer incidence and mortality: updated statistics and an overview of temporal trends from 2003 to 2017
June 2025
Global disparities exist in the burden of cervical cancer. This study aims to describe and analyze the global epidemiological landscape of cervical cancer in 2022, including recent trends in incide...
Large language models illuminate a progressive pathway to artificial intelligent healthcare assistant
June 2024
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs) have shown promising capabilities in mimicking human-level language comprehension and reasoning. This has sparked...
Anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity: emerging mechanisms and therapies
March 2025
Chemotherapy-induced cardiovascular disease has become one of the main causes of death in cancer survivors. Several international authoritative societies have developed a number of guidelines to standardize...
Health research in the era of artificial intelligence: Advances in gene-editing study
June 2024
In recent years, gene editing technology, represented by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) has made a revolutionary breakthrough....
Polysaccharide-based pickering emulsions: a mini review on biomedical potential and functional interfaces
December 2025
Polysaccharide-based Pickering emulsions (PEs) have attracted increasing attention as next-generation colloidal systems owing to their excellent biocompatibility, environmental responsiveness, and structural...
Boron neutron capture therapy of cancer: Recent progress
September 2024