Scientists are developing a new MRI-based test that could spare thousands of cancer patients from aggressive radiotherapy treatment.

A tiny sensor could one day measure blood pressure continuously, comfortably and accurately without an inflatable cuff. The device was developed by professors Amir Rosenthal and Daniel Lange of the Technion’s Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, together with doctoral student Gil Gelbert. They published their findings in Nature Communications.

People newly diagnosed with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease, or MOGAD, generally had a low risk of relapse and lasting disability, according to a Kaiser Permanente study. The work is published in the journal Neurology.

Children whose mothers have type 1 diabetes develop the disease at about half the rate of children whose fathers have it. Inherited genetic risk alone does not explain this long-observed maternal effect, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz and published in Diabetes Care. The findings point to other possible biological mechanisms that warrant further investigation.

After thoracic surgery—any medical operation done inside the chest—patients can experience pain, soreness or numbness even years later. This is because the incisions cut through muscles and nerves on sensitive ribs, which can cause damage and inflammation.