Day August 29, 2025

Model of the role of microtubule mechanotransduction in host and viral genome organization during HCMV infection. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62921-5 Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how a common virus linked to birth defects and chronic illness manipulates its…

Credit: Ivan Samkov from Pexels Government housing assistance was associated with a nearly seven-percentage point lower risk of experiencing financial hardship related to medical expenses among US renters with a history of cancer, new research finds. The findings, described in…

An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York City this August has sickened more than 100 people and left five dead. Nationwide, reported cases of this severe form of pneumonia have risen significantly over the last 25 years, with most…

The type of estradiol-based hormone therapy taken during and after menopause, such as patches or pills, may be associated with differences in memory performance, according to a study published on August 27, 2025, in Neurology. The study found when compared…

A new study found that Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander people had the highest rate of stroke among people from other race and ethnic groups, with a rate more than three times higher than that of white people. The study…

New research led by investigators at Mass General Brigham suggests a link between a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the risk of developing a malignant brain tumor. By evaluating data from 2000–2024 of more than 75,000 people with…

A systematic review analyzed the associations of high-concentration delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) cannabis products with mental health outcomes. The review found that high-concentration THC products are associated with unfavorable mental health outcomes, particularly for psychosis or schizophrenia and cannabis use disorder (CUD).…

Credit: AI-generated image Next to cancer recurrence or progression, cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of death in cancer survivors. The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database revealed that among the more than three million who initially survived cancer between…

Sleep quality in total, good or bad. Credit: GEOME / EPFL Scientists from EPFL and Haute École d’Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud (HEIG-VD), working in partnership with the City of Yverdon-les-Bains, have analyzed the sleep quality of…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1016 Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), a rare and aggressive type of blood cancer, is already highly diverse at the time of diagnosis and continues to…

A procedure which uses living heart valves may have expanded application as a treatment for various types of pediatric heart valve conditions. The research was led by pediatric heart specialists at Duke Health. It looked at 19 children with various…

Asymptomatic bacterial biofilm lining a cholesterol-laden coronary artery plaque. Credit: Pekka Karhunen’s research group, Tampere University. A pioneering study by researchers from Finland and the UK has demonstrated for the first time that myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease.…

New research has found that the use of GLP-1 receptor agonists, a class of medications commonly prescribed for patients with obesity and diabetes, reduces the environmental footprint of health care and clinical outcomes when used to treat heart failure. Treatment…

After 140 years of vital, often invisible service, public health nurses (PHNs) deserve formal recognition as a distinct occupation, says a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The research argues that classifying PHNs under a unique…

“My son was diagnosed with congenital CMV, a virus that can cause hearing loss. As part of this diagnosis, he will be required to have routine hearing tests every few months until he is 10 years old. I reached out…

by Felice J. Freyer At age 82, Roberta Rabinovitz realized she had no place to go. A widow, she had lost both her daughters to cancer, after living with one and then the other, nursing them until their deaths. Then…

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Mary Elizabeth Baugh, a Virginia Tech research scientist with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and the study’s first author, looked at how flavors such as acerola, bilberry, and horchata paired with nutrient flavors in a small group of…

Subspecies from the HuMSub catalog are ubiquitous across the bacterial domain and are directly quantifiable. Credit: Cell Host & Microbe (2025). DOI: 10.1016 Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. If detected early, it can be…

Credit: Meelan Bawjee Dr. Thimo Ruethers, who is based at James Cook University’s Tropical Future Institute in Singapore and serves as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Townsville, was a co-investigator of the study conducted at Epworth Hospital in Melbourne. He…

Credit: Edward Jenner from Pexels People with leukemia have a weakened immune system due to the disease itself and treatment, which leads to an increased susceptibility to infections. In a revised guideline, experts summarize the findings of the past ten…

Tobacco smoking is the number one cause of preventable disease and death in Canada; it is highly addictive and hard to stop. Recognizing these challenges, a new guideline from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care provides a menu…

Structure determination of TcPOP in the closed and open conformation. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62068-3 Researchers have successfully produced antibodies that kill the parasite carried by the “kissing bug” that causes the potentially deadly Chagas disease. The research is…

What is it that makes us feel good about ourselves? And what motivates us to do something, regardless of whether it is important or not? Emotions are complicated things. Researchers have found some differences between men and women, but basically…

Disk diffusion test with an investigational compounds with activity against gonococci. Credit: Tomas Gustafsson The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea has increased in the past 10 years. No one knows exactly why gonorrhea is spreading—but experts suspect a mix of better…

Research led by the Indiana University School of Medicine and the University of Florida reports an association between taking GLP-1 receptor agonists and lower overall cancer risk in adults with obesity or overweight, with a reduced risk for ovarian cancer…

by I. Edwards Eli Lilly says its new once-daily pill, orforglipron, helped people lose significant weight and lower blood sugar in a late-stage clinical trial. The company plans to seek global regulatory approval later this year. The study included people…

For women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), pregnancy can be an uncertain time due to limited clinical data about how IBD medications impact pregnancy outcomes and infants who have been exposed to IBD medications in utero. As a matter of…

Clinically actionable genomic changes in TNBC from AA women. Donut plots of actionable alterations in TNBC from AA women. Numbers in the plots are percentage of cases classified to each category. a, HRD defined on the basis of germline and…

Lung pathology. Credit: Nature Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-03861-x A genetically modified pig lung remained viable and functional over a period of 9 days after being transplanted into a human recipient who had been declared brain dead, according to research published…

Credit: João Jesus from Pexels A study published in PNAS has found that for people with a rare form of ichthyosis, medications previously used to treat cancer could be repurposed for treatment. The study’s lead author, Keith Choate, MD, Ph.D.,…

Genetic testing of IVF-created embryos could help more women over 35 have a baby in less time, a clinical trial by researchers from King’s College London, King’s College Hospital, and King’s Fertility has found. Published in the Journal of Clinical…

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine have developed a new and highly effective application of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to quickly scan notes in electronic medical records and identify high-risk patients who may have been infected…

Dr. Smith works with specialized gene editing techniques to arrest hepatitis B virus in its tracks. Credit: Antiviral Gene Therapy Research Unit This highlights an important preclinical model that could be successful in humans. The notoriously persistent, difficult-to-treat, lifelong and…

Credit: Cell Metabolism (2025). DOI: 10.1016 Our bodies follow a natural 24-hour cycle known as the circadian rhythm that influences everything from sleep to metabolism. While scientists have long known that certain core circadian clock genes help regulate these rhythms,…