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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 5-Jul-2025 19:10 ET (5-Jul-2025 23:10 GMT/UTC)

Urgent unmet need for improved tools to identify patients at risk of myocardial infarction

Amsterdam University Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nick Nurmohamed and colleagues have raised critical concerns regarding the detection of risk factors and the use of preventive measures before the occurrence of myocardial infarctions (MI). They performed a retrospective cohort study examining U.S. patients with their first MI between 2017 and 2022. Their results are published in European Heart Journal.

Journal: European Heart Journal

More people need to know how to prevent SIDS

Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Reports and Proceedings

An Annenberg health survey finds that many Americans are unaware of two factors that can reduce a baby's risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS: Putting a baby to sleep on its back and reducing a baby's exposure at home to secondhand smoke.

New study shows link between childhood health and risk of disease in men in later life

University of Nottingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research has shown how boys being overweight in early childhood or having chickenpox or another infectious disease in infancy may increase their risk of having chronic disease in later life.

Journal: Andrology

Review article highlights urgent need for aflatoxin control strategies in Pakistan’s feed supply chain

CABI
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists who have written in the CABI One Health journal say there is an urgent need for aflatoxin control strategies in Pakistan’s feed supply chain to improve animal health, productivity, food safety and exports of animal-based products.

Journal: CABI One Health

Understanding the role of pigmentation in hereditary hearing loss

Institute of Science Tokyo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Melanin can either protect or worsen hereditary hearing loss depending on genetic context, as reported by researchers from Japan. Using genetically engineered mice lacking the SLC26A4 gene, the researchers found that problems with melanin degradation led to its pathological accumulation in the inner ear, causing chronic inflammation and macrophage activation. These findings could inform new therapeutic strategies to minimize some forms of hereditary hearing loss.

Journal: Neurobiology of Disease
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kao Melanin Workshop

Multiresistant intestinal bacteria: Displacement through food competition

Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Peer-Reviewed Publication

If an intestinal inhabitant such as the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) becomes resistant to many antibiotics, it can cause serious health problems if it enters the bloodstream. How can such potentially dangerous multi-resistant bacteria be effectively removed from the gut? Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), in collaboration with researchers from Hannover Medical School (MHH), explored this question in their latest study. Their strategy: food competition. Out of more than 430 different E. coli strains isolated from stool samples of donors, they identified some that successfully displaced the multidrug-resistant strains. Their findings give the scientists hope that their approach could help slow the spread of multidrug-resistant intestinal bacteria and prevent dangerous infections in the future. The study was published in the journal Nature Communications and was supported financially by the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF).

Journal: Nature Communications

A Chinese Neurosurgical Journal study compares surgery techniques for a challenging type of pituitary tumor

Chinese Neurosurgical Journal
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (PitNETs) are usually removed by endoscopic endonasal surgery (EES). However, surgical management of giant and irregular pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (GIPitNETs) with EES is often challenging, due to their large size and irregular shape. An alternative approach is combined endoscopic endonasal and transcranial surgery (CECS). Now, researchers compare the efficacy and outcome of both surgical techniques for treating GIPitNETs and found that CECS is safe and effective with comparable complication rates.

Journal: Chinese Neurosurgical Journal

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