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24-Sep-2025

Brazilian researchers warn that healthcare for transgender people is under threat

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Article published in Nature Medicine points to the risk of setbacks in research focused on this population. Experts question new rules in Brazil and other countries. Researchers believe that a resolution by Brazil’s Federal Council of Medicine could lead young people to seek out untrained doctors or even self-medicate, putting their health at risk.

Journal: Nature Medicine
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

24-Sep-2025

Parenting from the OR: New study spotlights experiences of children raised by women cardiothoracic surgeons

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, a journal from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), offers rare insight into what it’s like to grow up as the child of a cardiothoracic (CT) surgeon mother, revealing a powerful blend of challenges, inspiration, and resilience.

Journal: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

24-Sep-2025

Older adults can bounce back to thriving health, groundbreaking Canadian study finds

University of Toronto
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that nearly one in four older adults age 60 or older who reported poor well-being at the beginning of a national study —due to pain, health issues, low mood, or isolation—had regained optimal well-being within just three years.

Journal: PLOS One

24-Sep-2025

Rheumatoid arthritis begins long before symptoms start

Allen Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have discovered that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) doesn’t start when the pain begins. It silently starts years earlier. RA is a debilitating autoimmune disease that causes painful joint inflammation and damage. The new research reveals that people at risk for RA experience dramatic immune system changes long before they feel symptoms. During this early phase, their bodies fight an autoimmune battle invisibly. 

Journal: Science Translational Medicine
Funder: Allen Institute, NIH/NIAMS P30 AR079369 (KDD, VMH, MKD, KAK, LM and MLF), the University of Colorado Autoimmune Disease Prevention Center (KDD, MLF, CCS) and the William P. Arend Endowed Chair in Rheumatology Research (KDD).

24-Sep-2025

Broad support amongst U.K. public for additional regulation of advertisments for high-carbon products and services

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Broad support amongst U.K. public for additional regulation of advertisments for high-carbon products and services, per study including large poll and citizens’ jury.

Journal: PLOS Climate

24-Sep-2025

Scientists sidestep Heisenberg uncertainty principle in precision sensing experiment

University of Sydney
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Physicists in Australia and Britain have reshaped quantum uncertainty to sidestep the restriction imposed by the famous Heisenberg uncertainty principle – a result that could underpin future ultra-precise sensor technology used in navigation, medicine and astronomy.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: Australian Research Council, Office of Naval Research Global, US Army Research Office for Physical Sciences, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Lockheed Martin, European Commission, Sydney Quantum Academy, H. and A. Harley

24-Sep-2025

Racial discrimination may increase psychosis risk

University College London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Being racially or ethnically discriminated against may increase the risk of later developing psychotic symptoms, finds a major review of international evidence led by University College London (UCL) researchers, published in PLOS Mental Health.

Journal: PLOS Mental Health
Funder: Wellcome Trust, Windsor Fellowship, National Institute for Health Research, UK Research and Innovation