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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 11-Dec-2025 19:12 ET (12-Dec-2025 00:12 GMT/UTC)

Researchers pitch strategies to identify potential fraudulent participants in online qualitative research

Rutgers University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Rutgers Health–led study, published in BMJ Open Quality, examines potential challenges associated with online qualitative data collection and how to prevent possible fraudulent respondents.

Journal: BMJ Open Quality

Study implicates enzyme in neurodegenerative conditions

Oregon Health & Science University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have identified a type of enzyme with a complicated name — cell migration inducing and hyaluronan-binding protein, or CEMIP — is associated with disorders ranging from multiple sclerosis to stroke to neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease.

Journal: ASN NEURO

Clean water access improves child health in Mozambique, study shows

University of Notre Dame
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In Mozambique, more than one in three children under five suffer from stunting, or impaired physical growth. New research from Santosh Kumar Gautam, associate professor of development and global health economics at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, shows that improving access to safe drinking water can reduce the odds of stunting by about 20 percent, making it one of the most effective interventions for child growth.

Journal: Children

Nationally renowned anesthesiology physician-scientist and clinical operations leader David Mintz, MD, PhD, named Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the UM School of Medicine

University of Maryland School of Medicine
Business Announcement

University of Maryland School of Medicine Dean Mark T. Gladwin, MD, along with University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) President Bert O’Malley, MD, today announced the appointment of C. David Mintz, MD, PhD, to be the next Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, and Chief of the Anesthesiology Clinical Service (“Chief of Anesthesiology”) at UMMC. Dr. Mintz, a neuroanesthesiologist and nationally recognized leader in research, education, and perioperative operations, will be installed as the Martin Helrich Endowed Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology. He will begin his new position in July, 2026.

Sweeping study shows similar genetic factors underlie multiple psychiatric disorders

University of Colorado at Boulder
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A global team looked at DNA of more than 6 million people and categorized psychiatric disorders into five groups based on shared genetic factors. The findings could inform new, more precise ways to diagnose and treat mental illness.

Journal: Nature

Researchers discover how Ebola and Marburg disrupt the gastrointestinal tract

Boston University School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Ebola (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) are highly lethal viruses that cause severe disease in infected patients by extensively damaging the body. This includes the gastrointestinal tract. Severe diarrhea followed by dehydration is a major causes of death in EBOV and MARV disease patients, yet the role of the intestinal lining (epithelium) in these outcomes remain poorly understood.

A new study first-authored by Elizabeth Yvonne Flores, PhD, a recent graduate from Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, BU’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) and the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) of BU and Boston Medical Center, sheds light on the mechanisms behind this damage. The study found that both EBOV and MARV are capable of infecting and replicating within human gut epithelial cells and that the viruses interfere with the cells' ability to regulate fluid secretion, mirroring the severe symptoms observed in patients.

Journal: PLOS Pathogens

University of Houston expands addiction research with $2.67M gift to help combat national opioid epidemic

University of Houston
Grant and Award Announcement

As the United States continues to face the persistent and deadly opioid crisis, driven by the dangerous synthetic fentanyl, a $2.67 million gift to the University of Houston from the estate of Dr. William A. Gibson will honor his late son Michael, who lost his life to addiction in 2019.

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