Does your infant put their arm through their sleeve when you get them dressed? As you sort laundry does your toddler pick up the shorts you dropped? These are examples of how infants help by participating in shared activities. As infants approach their first birthday, helping becomes evident in the context of shared chores and interactive routines with their caregivers or retrieving an out of reach object for an unfamiliar adult. Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Munich, Germany aimed to address this by investigating how infants’ helping behavior is associated with motor development and social-cognitive skills as well as early interactions with their caregiver. The study shows that infants learn to help through everyday interactions with their caregivers. Specifically, the more caregivers modeled the required behavior, the more infants helped the caregiver. The study shows a link between maternal modeling and helping toward the mother but not helping toward the experimenter. 

The Bronchiectasis and NTM Association has accepted one new Care Center and three new Clinical Associate Center sites into the Bronchiectasis and NTM Care Center Network (CCN). The CCN includes 62 centers across the United States.

A new study led by researchers at Trinity College Dublin in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, estimates the value-based prices of these medicines across 174 countries. The study shows that while disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) may offer substantially greater health benefits than usual care, their real-world impact will depend on whether they are priced in ways that health systems can afford.

A new review published in Reviews on Recent Clinical Trials explores this rapidly emerging possibility. Authored by researchers from Parc Taulí Hospital Universitari and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the paper examines the promise — and the limits — of Virtual Clinical Trials (VCTs): computer-based simulations that model how drugs and treatments might behave in the human body.

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales are critical priority pathogens posing a high risk for public health and patient safety, as they cause difficult-to-treat infections with limited available treatment options and an insufficient development pipeline for new antibiotics.

The American Society for Nutrition Foundation (ASN Foundation) and the Novo Nordisk Foundation today announced the latest recipients of the annual ASN Foundation-Novo Nordisk Foundation Henrik Dam and Flemming Quaade Awards, now in their second year. The awards recognize two scientists whose work is driving new insights and solutions in nutrition and obesity.