EurekAlert! News by Subject: Medicine & Health

Medicine & Health

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 23-Oct-2026 22:16 ET (24-Oct-2026 02:16 GMT/UTC)

22-Sep-2026

Researchers in Denmark aim to find new solutions in the fight against antibiotic resistance

Technical University of Denmark
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new understanding of antibiotic resistance could transform the diagnosis and treatment of humans and animals and help combat the global threat of antibiotic resistance more effectively.

Journal: Trends in Microbiology

22-Sep-2026

BD² awards over $13 million in grants to understand the mechanisms of mood state switching in bipolar disorder and announces new funding available

BD²: Breakthrough Discoveries for thriving with Bipolar Disorder
Grant and Award Announcement

Three new BD² Discovery Research teams will explore how external risk factors trigger manic or depressive episodes. Research led by scientists and clinicians at Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, and Stanford University will offer new insights and potential treatments for people with bipolar disorder.

A new RFA for Discovery Research focused on women’s health is now taking applications, with up to $5 million available per grant.

22-Sep-2026

“Inequality of health chances is more than a question for health systems”

Heidelberg University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The worldwide inequality of health opportunities is being further heightened by the triple planetary crisis – climate change, loss of biodiversity and environmental pollution. Hence preventing it is more than a question for health systems; as a central concern it must be embedded in climate and environmental policy. This is being urged by scientists from Heidelberg University whose research focuses, inter alia, on global health, environment-related diseases and climate action. They advocate not only for countering this inequality at the individual level but also for removing structural causes. In a paper that has appeared in the journal “Nature Human Behaviour” they explain the approaches required in research and policy-making.

Journal: Nature Human Behaviour

22-Sep-2026

Professor Dong Zhang’s team at Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital reveals a new mechanism underlying the potent anti-tumor activity of TCRαβ+CD4-CD8- double-negative T cells

Science China Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Professor Dong Zhang and Guangyong Sun at Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital has identified IFITM1 as a key regulator of the potent anti-tumor activity of TCRαβ⁺CD4^-CD8^-double-negative T cells (DNTs). IFITM1 recruits p62/SQSTM1 to mitochondria and promotes mitophagy, thereby preserving mitochondrial homeostasis, energy metabolism and the tumor-killing capacity of DNTs.

Journal: Science China Life Sciences

22-Sep-2026

Common standards for the use of phages against hard-to-treat infections

German Center for Infection Research
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international working group led by the German Society for Infectious Diseases (DGI) has developed a guideline for personalized phage therapy. Twenty professional organizations, 18 international experts, including representatives from regulatory agencies, and two patient advocacy organizations were involved. The guideline includes more than 60 practice-oriented recommendations on the selection and testing of suitable phages, infrastructure, manufacturing and quality control, application, monitoring, and documentation, as well as future research questions. The consensus statement will be published on September 21, 2026, in the journal Nature Medicine.

Journal: Nature Medicine

22-Sep-2026

SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre announces hackathon winners tackling maternal and child nutrition challenges

Duke-NUS Medical School
Reports and Proceedings

Three teams from Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Thailand clinched prizes at the second edition of the Asia-Pacific Global Health Innovation Hackathon, held in Singapore from 18 to 19 September 2026. Jointly co-hosted by two SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) institutes, the Academic Medicine Innovation Institute (AMII) and the Global Health Institute (SDGHI), alongside SingHealth's International Collaboration Office (ICO), this year’s edition brought together 13 teams from across Asia to develop transformative and scalable solutions to one of the region's most pressing public health challenges: maternal and child nutrition.

22-Sep-2026

Mpox: More than a third of positive tests may have been false diagnoses

Université de Genève
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In August 2024, the WHO declared the mpox upsurge in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and its spread to neighbouring countries, a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The emergence of a new strain and its rapid spread across eastern DRC, and later to other African countries and beyond, made reliable diagnosis essential for understanding the scale of the epidemic and guide vaccination and other public health measures. A study led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (Belgium) and the National Institute of Biomedical Research (DRC), analysed more than 2,700 PCR results for mpox in four Congolese cities — Goma, Kamituga, Kinshasa, and Uvira — between April 2024 and April 2026. The findings show that 35% of samples reported as PCR-positive may not have represented true infections, but rather environmental contamination with mpox viral DNA. Published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the study has direct implications for outbreak surveillance and for the individuals falsely diagnosed.

Journal: The Lancet Infectious Diseases

22-Sep-2026

AI-enhanced augmented reality in precision surgery

Bentham Science Publishers
Book Announcement

The book examines AI-powered medical imaging, surgical planning, real-time augmented reality guidance, robotics-assisted interventions and adaptive AI-AR systems for personalized care. It also explores ethical considerations, cybersecurity and regulatory frameworks, supported by practical case studies demonstrating clinical applications and future directions in precision surgery.

22-Sep-2026

Gut-brain nexus: The link between gut microbiota and neurodegenerative diseases

Bentham Science Publishers
Book Announcement

The Gut-Brain Nexus: The Link Between Gut Microbiota and Neurodegenerative Diseases brings together current scientific evidence and clinical perspectives to explore this emerging field. The book examines how the gut microbiota may influence neurological health and discusses mechanisms through which changes in the microbiome may contribute to disease onset and progression.