Day October 16, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic did not affect everyone equally. Communities of color, especially Latino (including undocumented persons), Black, and Native American groups, as well as people with low incomes, experienced much higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and death. Research has shown…

Gov. Gavin Newsom prepares to speak at a news conference at Belvedere Middle School, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. Credit: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes California will phase out certain ultraprocessed foods from school meals over the next decade under…

Graphical study abstract. a Antenatal and postnatal factors that increase childhood inflammation and consequences of chronic inflammation. b Interaction between breastfeeding, infection, and inflammation. c Main findings of the effects of breastfeeding, inflammation, and metabolism and mediating pathways. d Main…

Breast cancer receives much attention during October’s awareness month. Although sightings of pink ribbons and breast cancer-related information increase during the month, it’s crucial to keep screenings and clinical breast exams at the forefront of preventive care year-round. A Mayo…

New UBC Okanagan research shows that exercise can do more than improve the strength and cardiovascular endurance of women who have survived breast cancer. Dr. Sarah Purcell, a researcher with UBC’s Southern Medical Program and Center for Chronic Disease Prevention…

AI-based digital quantification of pathology from brain tumors treated at different timepoints with CAN-3110. Credit: Accelerating GBM Cure Team, Breakthrough Cancer. A multi-institutional study from the Accelerating GBM Therapies Through Serial Biopsies TeamLab, led by investigators from the Mass General…

Have you ever gotten a flash of a different route you could have taken while stuck in traffic? This isn’t just a fleeting thought, but rather a fundamental neurological process, according to findings published in Nature Communications. The hippocampus—the brain’s…

Researchers at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University have discovered a target in brain function that could change how schizophrenia patients are treated. “We’ve been treating schizophrenia with a one-size-fits-all…

While stuttering was believed to have purely psychological causes up until about 30 years ago, scientists today attribute it to a variety of factors capable of contributing to its development. For instance, several genes have been identified that increase the…

Experimental design and assessment of hippocampal demyelination and seizure activity in the CPZ model. Credit: Neurobiology of Disease (2025). DOI: 10.1016 A preclinical study by biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has shown why some people with multiple…

NextGen Precision Health. Credit: University of Missouri There may be a way to protect brain energy to preserve cognition—and the secret could lie on your plate. Think fish and seafood, meat, non-starchy vegetables, berries, nuts, seeds, eggs and even high-fat…

Chipping in: Biomedical engineering Ph.D. student Kaihua Chen, a member of URochester professor James McGrath’s team, prepares tissue chips for experiments. Credit: University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster In lieu of animal experiments, researchers from the University of…

A noninvasive device that delivers weak electrical currents to the brain may help those with multiple sclerosis cut back on excessive cannabis use, a new NYU Langone Health study of women with the condition shows. More than half of people…

Photo of researcher Kristian Jensen wearing the high-density headset for LDAEP. The headset comprises 256 electrodes, plus earphones; these can give sound tones ranging from around 60dB (which is as loud as a conversation) to 100dB (as loud as a…

Dr. Utkarsh Gupta demonstrates the enfacement illusion, with an image filter applied to the photo on the right. Credit: Anglia Ruskin University New research has discovered that briefly altering how we perceive our own body can help unlock autobiographical memories—potentially…

Credit: beyzahzah from Pexels As new Statistics Canada data reveals that two-thirds of Canadians are considered overweight or obese, researchers are urging the public and policymakers to rethink how we define and measure health—starting with one of the most used…

Credit: Karolina Grabowska from Pexels Scientists in the United Kingdom say they have developed a blood test that can diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) with 96% accuracy—the first of its kind. For many who live with the debilitating condition,…

Scientists at the University of East Anglia and Oxford Biodynamics have developed a high accuracy blood test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). The debilitating long-term illness affects millions worldwide—including over 400,000 sufferers in the…

Observation of cancer cell death in a preclinical model using in vivo two-photon imaging. In magenta, living cancer cells; in blue, dying cancer cells; in green, macrophages. Credit: Dynamics of Immune Responses Unit—Institut Pasteur The aim of immunotherapy strategies is…

Mini-cheese model to assess the stability of H5N1 influenza in raw-milk cheese. Credit: Nature Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-04010-0 Raw milk cheese products contained infectious avian influenza virus when made with contaminated raw milk, creating potential health risks for consumers, according…

Bladder cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Men are around four times more likely to develop it than women, and smoking is the main known environmental risk factor. However, the biological mechanisms behind these risk factors remain…

Quinn Cochran-Zipp went to the emergency room three times with severe abdominal pain before doctors figured out she had early-stage cancer in the germ cells of her right ovary. After emergency surgery four years ago, the Greeley, Colorado, lab technician…

Imagine you’re away from home but forgot to pack your towel, razor or toothbrush. Should you use other people’s? Here’s why it’s probably best not to make a habit of it. Microbes can stay active for a while Many disease-causing…

New research helps explain why disease-associated genetic variants can lead to variable clinical outcomes, influenced both by the patterns of secondary variants, or genetic background, and by how cohorts of individuals in a study are ascertained. In a family (left),…

A participant is buried face down under about 50 centimeters of snow. Credit: Eurac Research / Marina Baldo When the Norwegian company that manufactures the Safeback SBX device, which is already on the market, approached Eurac Research to have it…

As students settle into the school year, the reality is that many will not experience full inclusion in the classroom. Every child has the right to an education under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the United Nations…

Monday night’s ABC Four Corners’ investigation highlighted major issues with the regulation of online gambling in Australia. Regulators are responsible for safeguarding the public from serious gambling harms. However, the investigation alleged a revolving door between regulators and industry, the…

A new study reveals that both sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and low- or non-sugar-sweetened beverages (LNSSBs) are significantly associated with a higher risk of developing metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). The study, presented at UEG Week 2025, followed 123,788 UK…

Artificial intelligence (AI) could soon help anesthesiologists keep children safer in the operating room and improve their recovery with better pain management, suggests a systematic review presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2025 annual meeting. Providing anesthesia care for children is especially…

Appetite-suppressing hormones have been made famous recently with the release of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Research into hormones that regulate appetite is seen leading the race for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, to be awarded Monday—the first in this year’s Nobel…

For patients with vestibular schwannoma (VS), those with anxiety have more severe dizziness, according to a study published online Oct. 2 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. Tyler Wilson, from Washington University in St. Louis, and colleagues examined the baseline…

Credit: Cancer Cell (2025). DOI: 10.1016 UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified two distinct populations of cells known as antigen-presenting cancer-associated fibroblasts (apCAFs) that appear to support the survival and growth of malignant tumors. Their findings, reported in Cancer…

Ultralong 11-amino-acid insertion facilitates the quaternary binding mode of 04_A06. Credit: Nature Immunology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41590-025-02286-5 An international research team led by the University of Cologne has discovered an antibody that could advance the fight against HIV. The newly identified…

The prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is approximately two times higher in African Americans (AA) compared to white/European-ancestry (EA) individuals living in the U.S. Some of this is due to social determinants of health such as disparities in health care…

Kobe University Ishimori Shingo and his team found that the most common reason why patients were referred to hospital for testing for Alport syndrome was due to age-3 urine screening results. In addition, 60% of these people already met the…

Long-term exposure to fine air pollution can impair metabolic health by disrupting the normal function of brown fat in mice. A study co-led by the University of Zurich shows that this occurs through complex changes in gene regulation driven by…

Credit: European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (2025). DOI: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf600 Two new studies by the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology–BIPS in Bremen show for the first time that air quality directly influences blood pressure (pre-hypertension and hypertension) and important…

An overview of the process linking single-cell RNA input, image conversion and CNN analysis, to hierarchical immune cell classification. Credit: 2025 Tsunoda et al. CC-BY-ND Researchers explore the human immune system by looking at the active components, namely the various…

Overview of workflow for AD approach. Credit: Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2025). DOI: 10.1002 Monash University researchers are using the power of consumer AI to evaluate the safety and repurposing potential of medicines. The ‘association discovery’ data mining tool, known…

Multi-person hallway walking tests (a) a snapshot of the video in the middle of walking and (b) corresponding detected subjects’ clusters and ghosts. Credit: Scientific Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-97757-y Engineering and health researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed…