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30-Sep-2026

Wealth and health aren’t the only indicators of national happiness – there’s also cats!

National happiness is influenced by complex relationships beyond basic economic factors, according to a study published September 30, 2026 in the open access journal PLOS One by Javier I. Borráz-León of the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation, Mexico City and colleagues, which finds that cats and their parasites are strongly correlated with both positive and negative happiness scores worldwide.

Journal: PLOS One

30-Sep-2026

Simulated space radiation may damage rat hearts long after exposure

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Simulated space radiation may damage rat hearts long after exposure

Journal: PLOS One

30-Sep-2026

Older adults participating in a high-intensity walking program were more likely to improve their frailty status than those walking at a casual pace, although benefits were observed in both groups

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Older adults participating in a high-intensity walking program were more likely to improve their frailty status than those walking at a casual pace, although benefits were observed in both groups

Journal: PLOS One

30-Sep-2026

Wearable stroke rehabilitation device gives patients the upper hand

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers has developed a wearable wrist device powered by a machine-learning algorithm that can continually track changes in arm movement impairment caused by strokes. Monitoring changes throughout the entire rehabilitation process will allow clinicians to make real-time adjustments to therapy programs for tailored interventions and personalized care instead of the one-size-fits-all current standard.

Journal: Science Translational Medicine

30-Sep-2026

Your voice may reveal how fast and how well you’re aging – new research

Trinity College Dublin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A large study shows that machine-learning clocks based on speech can estimate chronological age and may also offer a window into brain aging, biological aging, cognitive health, cumulative burden, and dementia.

The new study, just published in leading international journal Science Advances, outlines that researchers have developed a “speech clock” that can estimate a person’s chronological age from hundreds of acoustic and linguistic characteristics of their speech. The difference between a person’s actual age and their speech-predicted age (called the speech age gap) was also associated with multiple independent markers of biological aging, brain health, cognition, social adversity, and dementia.

Journal: Science Advances

30-Sep-2026

Supporting adolescent mothers means supporting two generations at once

University of Toronto
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new review of research from across sub-Saharan Africa found that inadequate access to food is linked to depression, suicide attempts, HIV vulnerabilities, and poorer sexual and reproductive health outcomes among adolescent mothers.

Journal: PLOS One

30-Sep-2026

Stanford Medicine-led research shows promise for a lymphedema drug

Stanford Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Patients with lower limb lymphedema, which has few effective treatments, saw many of their symptoms improve after a year of taking the experimental medication.

Journal: Scientific Reports

30-Sep-2026

First health system on West Coast to use new brain bleed technologies

University of California - San Diego
Business Announcement

Novel treatments may improve outcomes for chronic subdural hematoma, a common brain bleed, by enabling more complete artery closure.

30-Sep-2026

Kandice Tanner to receive 2027 Michael and Kate Bárány Award

Biophysical Society
Grant and Award Announcement

BETHESDA, MD – The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Kandice Tanner, of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA, has been named recipients of the 2027 Michael and Kate Bárány Award. Tanner will be honored at the Society’s 71st Annual Meeting, being held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from February 20-24, 2027.