Day April 3, 2026

Nine leading medical societies are calling for updated safety standards in fluoroscopy laboratories, often called “cath labs,” where clinicians performing minimally invasive procedures face radiation exposure and orthopedic injuries from heavy protective equipment. A report published simultaneously in JSCAI, Heart…

Credit: ACS Environmental Au (2025). DOI: 10.1021 New research led by University of South Carolina environmental health sciences assistant professor Laura Langan has provided further support for the effectiveness of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE). Langan and her team have compared two…

Anyone with a chronic illness understands the struggle of living with a disease that is deeply unpredictable. Many such illnesses are characterized by long periods of remission broken up by sudden, debilitating flare-ups. Sometimes these flare-ups have obvious causes, but…

A Singapore study tracking 328 mother-child pairs has found two distinct pathways linking maternal mental health to child outcomes at age four. The research from A*STAR Institute for Human Development and Potential (A*STAR IHDP), in collaboration with the Yong Loo…

A yeast cell that senses pheromones from the opposite mating type grows a protrusion toward the signal, a process known as “shmooing.” When the protrusions of two cells touch, they fuse into a single cell containing the genetic material of…

A new immunotherapy drug has demonstrated early promise in a recent prostate cancer clinical trial. The drug, called VIR-5500, is a “masked T-cell engager.” This type of immunotherapy ignites our own immune arsenal to fight cancer. In the trial, which…

Credit: Erik Mclean from Pexels As more states legalize marijuana, many people might be wondering if that means it is safe to use. While smoking tobacco is a known and well-studied cause of lung cancer, linking marijuana to cancer is…

Visible and invisible barriers to recruitment and retention in the care sector. Credit: Journal of Aging Studies (2026). DOI: 10.1016 Care work must be urgently reframed as essential, skilled labor and not a “natural” extension of women’s roles if the…

A Denver food and cannabis investigator became suspicious of PolkaDot-branded chocolate bars sitting next to convenience store energy shots and nicotine pouches in January 2026. Months earlier, California public health officials warned about PolkaDot-branded chocolate bars. California authorities destroyed more…

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have found that a machine learning model could help clinicians predict which people with depression are more likely to improve with digital cognitive behavioral therapy compared to antidepressant medication. The study, led by researchers in…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Immunity (2026). DOI: 10.1016 When a virus enters the lungs, the immune system has to react fast. The lung maintains its own community of immune cells capable of mounting a local defense on the spot. Researchers from…

Aliah Zewail, a graduate student in psychological and brain sciences in the College of Natural Sciences (CNS), has led research for a new paper examining the confluence of artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLMs), morality, and cultural diversity. In…

Study shows that along with conventional cardiac predictors, liver-metabolic status may help predict heart failure risk. In practice, incorporating liver-related metabolic signals into routine atrial fibrillation reviews during heart failure risk screening could support more refined risk stratification and help…

Graphical abstract. Credit: ACS Applied Energy Materials (2026). DOI: 10.1021 A new battery design that could significantly extend the range of electric vehicles and the lifespan of portable electronics has been developed by researchers at the University of Surrey’s Advanced…

In a study published in Nature Medicine, researchers from the University of Oxford and the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania have shown that a minimally invasive liquid biopsy test can diagnose Burkitt…

On the heels of one of the coldest winters in memory for large swaths of the United States, new research highlights an often overlooked cost of cold weather: months with lower temperatures see significantly greater rates of death from heart…

Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) and Life’s Crucial 9 (LC9) from the American Heart Association are industry-accepted metrics that summarize overall cardiovascular health. A new study documents inverse associations between these indicators and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in postmenopausal women. Adiposity…

Getting a tattoo can be a thrilling, albeit painful, experience. About one-third of Australians have a tattoo, with many getting inked as a rite of passage. However, a small but increasing number of Australians are being diagnosed with a rare…

Credit: Elina Fairytale from Pexels Ovarian cancer is hard to diagnose early. Its symptoms, like bloating and abdominal pain, are vague and similar to other more common conditions. Early diagnosis improves outcomes for many cancers. However, prior research suggests that…

Atopic dermatitis (AD) during childhood is not associated with increases in markers of cardiovascular risk, according to a study published online March 24 in JAMA Network Open. Morgan Ye, M.P.H., from the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues evaluated…

As you get older, it’s normal to notice changes in your sleep. These can include fewer hours of shuteye, waking up more during the night, and finding it harder to drop off. However, despite the general view that older people…

It is not unusual for laboratory monkeys to engage in abnormal repetitive behaviors (ARBs), such as pacing and hair-plucking. Conventional thinking is that these actions are linked to recent stresses or current housing conditions. But a new study published in…

Research, led by teams at Trinity College Dublin and the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Center, has pinpointed the mechanism linking some sports injuries to poor brain health in retired athletes. The research, published in Science Translational Medicine, has identified a breakdown…

As people navigate higher levels of stress and spend more of their day sitting, finding time to move can feel challenging. Less than half of adults and fewer than one in five children in the U.S. get the recommended amount…

Kidney stones can cause some of the most intense pain people ever experience, affecting daily life and leading many to hospital emergency visits. It affects one in 11 people in the U.S., and almost half will experience a recurrence. A…

Data sources and overview of the study design and approach. Credit: Nature Communications (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-69367-3 An international research collaboration led by Queen Mary University of London and University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa has published the most…

Schematic of conducting systematic P-ExWAS. Credit: Nature Medicine (2026). For decades, scientists have been carefully unraveling the role of genes in disease by examining how small variations in a person’s genetic code can shape lifelong risk of developing common…

Illustration of the association between rest tremor and brain dopamine function. Credit: Clinical Neurosciences, University of Turku A Finnish clinical imaging study shows that rest tremor in Parkinson’s disease is not explained by greater dopamine loss. In contrast, tremor appears…

Rudeness, whether real or perceived, can deeply affect cooperation, trust, and workplace culture. But judgments of what we consider rude aren’t confined to specific disrespectful words or phrases—they are shaped by the listener’s emotional processing, attention to non-verbal cues, and…

Wide swaths of American workers are more meaningfully involved than in the past in organizing around and pushing back against artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies in the workplace, a Rutgers study has found. Rutgers researchers examined the 2023 contract…