A new study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has tested a biomarker linked to vascular dementia across four separate groups and proposed an explanation for how cognitive impairment arises. The findings were just published in Alzheimer's & Dementia®: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association.

An analysis led by New York University researchers determines which public policies effectively prevent suicide deaths in the United States. But it’s not just policies that limit firearms and expand access to health care—many economic and social policies that are not explicitly focused on mental health can also prevent suicide, according to their article published in the Annual Review of Public Health.

A multidisciplinary team of University of Miami researchers studying factors associated with health outcomes and disease risk in the Hispanic community received a $21 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The high-impact grant will extend the national Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, initially launched in 2008, to 2033.