In a new study, WashU Medicine researchers show that vagus nerve stimulation from a small, implanted device provides substantial, long-lasting improvements for some participants with the most severe treatment-resistant depression.

In years when pine cone production is very low, forest songbirds sometimes migrate in large numbers into cities, where they congregate around bird feeders. In these crowded conditions, salmonellosis, the illness caused by the Salmonella bacterium, can spread through their population and even sicken people, pets and poultry. UCLA researchers are developing a tool that can predict when these outbreaks are likely to happen so people can take down their feeders to prevent the epidemic from starting.

Ochsner Health has appointed Dr. Timothy Riddell as its new executive vice president and chief operating officer. In this role, Dr. Riddell will oversee clinical operations across the system’s 47 hospitals and more than 370 health and urgent care centers. He plays a vital part in guiding Ochsner toward its long-term goals for sustainability and success. 

The American College of Chest Physicians released a new clinical guideline on biologic management in severe asthma containing seven evidence-based recommendations.

Therapies that target the utilization of fat by tumors and activate a type of cell death dependent on fat molecules may be a promising avenue to treat cancer, according to new research by UTHealth Houston.

In a highly collaborative, cross-institutional ImPLANT project funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Personalized Regenerative Immunocompetent Nanotechnology Tissue (PRINT)  program under a new contract of up to $25M over 5 years, world-leading researchers from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, MIT, University of Colorado Boulder, and Columbia University join their expertise to create the multidisciplinary technological framework for building the first off-the-shelf engineered product that could address liver failure in many of the over 500M patients who suffer from the disease worldwide.