Day August 31, 2025

For years, women in remote Kimberley communities faced an impossible choice—travel hundreds of kilometers for cervical screening or go without. Now, thanks to research from the University of Notre Dame Australia, that choice is being transformed. A new study, published…

Texas passed a landmark law in June 2025, supported by former Gov. Rick Perry, that allocates US$50 million to support research on ibogaine, one of the most powerful psychedelics, for treating opioid addiction and treatment-resistant PTSD. Arizona passed a similar…

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at UMass Chan Medical School is completing the first phase of data collection for a longitudinal study of the baby’s developing social brain. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and functional MRI (fMRI), the Shriver Center’s…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Drug Delivery and Translational Research (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s13346-024-01566-1 Kruti Naik, a Ph.D. candidate in ocular drug delivery at the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP) at Wits University, could change the way eye infections and conditions are…

The nine story panels that describe the co-designed ideal primary care experience. Credit: Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) and Thoughtform Navigating health care can be challenging under any circumstances, and systemic barriers can make the experience even more difficult for some…

induced TECs (iTECs). Green: HLA-DR, red: FOXN1mCherry, blue: DAPI. Credit: Kyoto University A team of researchers led by Professor Yoko Hamazaki and Assistant Professor Yann Pretemer (Department of Life Science Frontiers) has developed an in vitro model that faithfully recapitulates…

Concordia researchers have developed a new method of monitoring and tracking how disease-causing particles, or pathogens, spread from one place to another. The tool could help contain future outbreaks of diseases like COVID-19. Published in the journal Building and Environment,…

Photographs, radiographs and CT scans with 3D reconstruction of individuals (‘I’) with Catel-Manzke syndrome. Top row, hand radiographs of I2, I3 and I4. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09397-x Living cells contain a world of complex parts, which are constantly in…

There may be a major change in national drug policy coming soon. The Trump administration is considering reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III substance. The change in classification was proposed in 2024 under the Biden administration,…

Multimodal imaging of hyperreflective foci and ectopic RPE cells. Arrows in panels A and B show foci as observed through OCT and bright-field microscopy. Panels C–E show native RPE cells, identified by the yellow arrows, and migrating RPEs, identified by…

People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) often have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, let alone getting to the rheumatologist for a checkup or participating in a research study. This makes a deeper understanding of the mysterious autoimmune disease…

Volunteers stay active at the UC Davis Arboretum. A new study shows people who reported a higher sense of purpose in life were about 28% less likely to develop cognitive impairment. The research shows that psychological well-being may play a…

The government is considering new, bulk-billed health checks for 3-year-olds, to pick up developmental concerns and refer kids that might need additional support. The detail was buried in the announcement of the new “Thriving Kids” program which aims to provide…

Credit: Artem Podrez from Pexels A new study by researchers at the University of Exeter has found that routine blood tests used in primary care to assess anemia and mean corpuscular volume (MCV) are more effective at predicting cancer risk…

Wary of inflation, Americans have been watching the prices of everyday items such as eggs and gasoline. A less-noticed expense should cause greater alarm: rising premiums for health insurance. They have been trending upward for years and are now rising…

Perinuclear acetylated tubulin cage assembles in response to confinement. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09445-6 Cancer cells are notoriously flexible, taking on new features as they move around the body. Many of these changes are due to epigenetic modifications, which influence…

A panel convened in by the Food and Drug Administration sparked controversy by casting doubt about the safety of commonly used antidepressants during pregnancy. But it also raised the broader issue of how little is known about the safety of…

Only a few decades ago, a diagnosis of lupus could mean giving up the dream of having children. Women with systemic autoimmune diseases like lupus were warned that pregnancy was too risky—both for them and their unborn babies. Fast forward…

by I. Edwards More than 32,000 pounds of meat are being recalled nationwide because they were sold with a false USDA mark of inspection, federal officials announced. The recall involves products from Sabrositos Hondurenos, LLC, based in New Jersey. The…

A University of Alberta-led team has identified a new way to treat post-surgical pain in animals and human cells, in a bid to find non-addictive treatments for acute and even chronic pain. In a paper in the journal Anesthesiology, the…

Mount Sinai scientists identified antibodies from a recovered mpox patient that specifically recognize the viral protein A35. These antibodies not only neutralize the virus and protect animal models from disease but also mirror protective immune responses in humans, establishing A35…

Credit: Tim Mossholder from Pexels Legislation to restrict supermarket sales of foods high in fat, sugar or salt (HFSS) has led to a marked reduction in purchases, according to the first ever independent analysis. The research, which was carried out…

As people age, they display a bias in recognizing emotions as positive—to the point of improperly labeling neutral or negative emotions as positive. Some researchers theorize this bias is an adaptive mechanism to support mental and emotional wellness, but new…

Most research suggests that opioid overdoses involving multiple substances in the United States typically occur among people aged 25–54. However, a new study led by Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and Mass General Brigham for Children indicates that…

Dataset characterization and measures of reading. Credit: iScience (2025). DOI: 10.1016 If you love nothing more than devouring a page-turner in your free time, you’re becoming a rare breed. Reading for pleasure among adults in the United States has fallen…

The plague—aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence—is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South Lake Tahoe resident. But before you put on your 17th century “air-purifying” beaked mask, let’s find out from the experts why this…

Somatotopic organization of analgesic brainstem circuitry. Placebo analgesia induced on the face, arm, and leg evoked somatotopically organized activity changes within the lateral PAG and RVM revealed through 7-T functional MRI. This analgesic circuitry organization suggests that stimulating discrete brain…

Ingestible Controlled Optogenetic Stimulation (ICOPS) in its “on” condition. Credit: Mohamed Elsherif Scientists have long struggled with how to study the gut’s vast nervous system—often called the body’s “second brain”—without damaging it. Current research methods are invasive and often require…

We all know how much better we feel after a good night’s sleep. Science backs this up: high-quality sleep boosts cardiovascular health, immune function, brain health and emotional well-being. Unsurprisingly, many people are keen to improve their sleep—and “sleep hygiene”…

Pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, is a vaccine-preventable disease which continues to circulate even in areas where vaccination coverage is high, and outbreaks may still occur. A study published in Eurosurveillance and conducted at Meyer Children’s Hospital in Florence,…

A new study by University of Colorado Anschutz and Denver Health researchers, published in JAMA Network Open, introduces a more individualized approach to restarting methadone treatment for people with opioid use disorder. The findings suggest that tailoring methadone doses to…

An adult New World screwworm fly sits at rest in this undated photo. Credit: Denise Bonilla Department of Agriculture via AP A Maryland resident who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm—the first reported U.S. case…

Credit: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation (2025). DOI: 10.15326 People with schizophrenia are more likely to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), suggesting a possible syndemic relationship between the two diseases, in addition to people not…

Don’t open the letter. Many people avoid medical information out of fear of being overwhelmed, stigmatized, or because they don’t trust the health care system. Credit: MPI for Human Development A new review study by the Max Planck Institute for…

Does insurance play a role in which critically ill patients live or die? The unfortunate answer may be yes, due in part to a difference in the rate of inter-hospital transfer, according to new research from the University of Michigan.…

People who skip breakfast and eat late dinners may have an increased risk of developing osteoporosis, according to a new study published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. Lifestyle habits, such as exercise, alcohol consumption and smoking, are known…

Investigators at Mass General Brigham and the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have uncovered how patients’ health care spending has changed following the implementation of the No Surprises Act…

Credit: Ivan Samkov from Pexels New research indicates that many patients with advanced cancer report receiving treatment focusing on longevity over comfort, even when their goal is the opposite. The findings are published in Cancer. Treatment of serious illnesses generally…

Credit: Kampus Production from Pexels The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has developed and validated a patient-reported outcome tool for use in a clinical setting to monitor treatment response and longitudinal symptom progression in adults who have obstructive sleep apnea.…

It is no secret that people are often drawn to romantic partners who seem similar to themselves. This tendency, called assortative mating, has been established in humans as well as other species. Fish, for example, demonstrate the behavior frequently. Assortative…