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Case report highlights multidisciplinary approach to recurrent prostate cancer

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A case report led by UCLA Health researchers highlights the importance of a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach to treating prostate cancer that returns after surgery, particularly when the disease recurs multiple times and in different locations.

Journal: CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Decadelong study finds smoking worsens sickle cell retinopathy

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sickle cell retinopathy (SCR), a common, potentially blinding eye condition found among some people with sickle cell disease, is caused by misshapen blood cells blocking blood vessels in the light-sensing retina. In a 10-year, retrospective study of adults with SCR treated at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine, researchers found active smoking is a strong modifiable risk factor for disease progression, highlighting smoking cessation and routine screening as two new, actionable means of preventing vision loss.

Journal: American Journal of Ophthalmology
Funder: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, 4D Molecular Therapeutics, Genentech/Roche, EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, Adverum Biotechnologies

Overall diet quality key to heart health

American College of Cardiology
Reports and Proceedings

A healthy, balanced dietary pattern, rather than one focused on individual nutrients or foods is key to maintaining heart health, according to a Scientific Statement issued by the American College of Cardiology and published in JACC, its flagship journal. Diets should include minimally processed plant-based foods and healthy fats and proteins, while limiting foods high in refined starches, added sugars, sodium or unhealthy fats, as well as highly processed foods of poor nutritional quality.

Journal: Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher is seeking clues to problems in tiny hearts

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Grant and Award Announcement

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher Zhenglun “Alan” Wei is aiming to improve prenatal diagnosis of the most common cardiac birth defect by going with the flow … of blood in tiny hearts. Wei, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is leading a four-year project funded with $2,915,519 from the National Institutes of Health to develop a personalized model that will use detailed blood flow information collected from noninvasive tests to detect obstructions of the aorta in fetuses.

Mizzou research offers new hope for those at higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease

University of Missouri-Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from the University of Missouri offers hope for those who are at significantly higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease later in life, further establishing Mizzou as a leader in research on the most common cause of dementia.

Journal: Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism

Your AI twin could save your life: UVM awarded up to $38 million to build “digital twins” for treating critically ill patients

University of Vermont
Grant and Award Announcement

A U.S. federal agency is investing $38 million in a provocative and potentially transformative project: AI-powered medical "digital twins" to help doctors personalize treatments for critical ill patients in hospitals. The project, led by a U. of Vermont surgeon and researcher, will help doctors treat the most challenging illnesses in the ICU—sepsis, burns, severe trauma, and disordered immune responses. The funding is from ARPA-H in the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and is the largest research award in UVM's history.

Funder: Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

Family physicians lack formal, consistent menopause care training

The Menopause Society
Peer-Reviewed Publication

CLEVELAND, Ohio (Sept. 30, 2026)—Many family physicians care for women their entire lives, yet little is known about the menopause education they receive during training. A new study suggests that, although menopause education is broadly incorporated into U.S. family medicine residency training programs today, content coverage is variable and training programs lack formal assessments. Results of the study are published online today in Menopause, the journal of The Menopause Society.

Journal: Menopause

MSU researchers work toward universal flu, HIV vaccines

Michigan State University
Grant and Award Announcement

With the support of a new grant from the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, Michigan State University researchers are looking to better understand a viral mechanism shared between influenza and HIV with the aim of disrupting infection. This research could help develop effective vaccines for both diseases, as well as new antivirals. 

Researchers find benzodiazepine prescriptions drop sharply in the U.S. over the past decade

Rutgers University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The number of benzodiazepine prescriptions like Xanax and Valium dispensed in the United States decreased over the past 10 years, potentially suggesting that doctors have become more cautious when prescribing these sedatives, according to Rutgers Health researchers.

Journal: American Journal of Psychiatry
Funder: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Center for Ad- vancing Translational Sciences

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