Researchers found that non-Hispanic Black children and those with public insurance and lower Child Opportunity Index (COI) scores were much more likely to seek care for concussions in the emergency department than in primary care or specialty care settings. The findings underscore the need to ensure emergency medicine physicians have specific training and education for diagnosing and managing pediatric concussion and suggest that establishing up-to-date community-level resources could improve care equity for children with possible concussion.

Discoveries that impact lifespan and healthspan in fruit flies are usually tested in mice before being considered potentially relevant in humans, a process that is expensive and time intensive.  A pioneering approach taken at the Buck Institute leapfrogs over that standard methodology and identifies a metabolite that may hold promise as a target for aging.

Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for COVID surveillance that can signal the rise of new variants before they are widespread. The study, led by the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University and published today in the journal Genome Research, presents a way to track diversity across millions of genomes sequenced during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic using new surveillance software and points to its potential use in future pandemics.