The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) are calling for action to strengthen the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention following reports of significant staffing losses and operational strain at the agency. APIC and SHEA warn that reductions in scientific expertise are affecting the timely guidance, surveillance, and technical assistance healthcare facilities rely on to prevent infections and protect patients and healthcare personnel. The organizations urge Congress and the Administration to restore and sustain critical CDC staffing, protect the agency’s scientific independence, and ensure appropriated public health funds reach state and local partners promptly.

Surgery to remove lymph nodes in the neck may interfere with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage from the brain, contributing to cognitive impairment, according to new multicenter research led by Weill Cornell Medicine scientists.

A University of Minnesota Medical School research team has received a five-year, $3.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative to test a personalized approach to brain stimulation for people living with severe, treatment-resistant central neuropathic pain.

A Baylor College of Medicine-led team has developed a strategy that combines the analysis of thousands of proteins with artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the discovery of small molecules called ‘molecular glues’ to treat disease. Their novel approach has uncovered a new class of molecular glues that can potentially neutralize harmful proteins that have been linked to blood cancers and autoimmune diseases. The work also shows how AI-based structural modeling can guide chemists early for compound optimization, well before experiments reveal how a compound works.

At a dedicated press conference at the EASD Annual Meeting in Milan, organised by the European Diabetes Forum (EUDF), three leading European cardiometabolic scientific associations - the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) - joined European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare Olivér Várhelyi to welcome the launch of the first-ever EU Screening Week.