Rutgers researchers are part of an international call for a microbiome moonshot, a massive, coordinated effort to pinpoint how certain microorganisms inside us drive chronic disease and how others can be harnessed for repair.
Nearly half of the oldest adults died within one year of sustaining a hip fracture. A new doctoral thesis from Umeå University shows that not only the risk of sustaining a hip fracture, but also mortality following the injury and the prospects for recovery, are influenced by physical health, medical conditions and psychological well-being rather than age alone, highlighting the need for more person-centered care.
A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals how psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in "magic mushrooms," reshapes neural connections in the brain.
Ten evidence-based recommendations for schools, youth organizations and local authorities have been published to help prevent suicide and self-harm in young people.
For years, developers of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies have worked to address an unwanted side effect many users experience: cybersickness, a type of motion sickness triggered by moving digital content.
Some adults with chronic hepatitis B may now have a path to something today's treatments rarely deliver—stopping all medication while the virus stays in check.
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted radiopharmaceutical therapy is safe and effective for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) in routine clinical practice, consistent with outcomes from the VISION trial. An analysis of outcomes from a French early-access program, the largest real-world cohort of patients studied to date, confirms the benefit-risk profile of the therapy, while also shedding light on patient selection and use trends. This research was published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM) and Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine (ANZSNM) have issued a new procedure standard/procedure guideline for performing and interpreting lung imaging studies. The standard/guideline, published in the September issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology, provides a framework for clinical applications and standardization of ventilation–perfusion (V/Q) scintigraphy, ventilation-only scintigraphy and perfusion-only scintigraphy.
What if we could use a cancer's own byproduct to make drugs that destroy tumor cells from the inside? That is what Katsunori Tanaka and his team have done at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan.
Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have made a breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells can evade the cell-killing effects of chemotherapy and enter a "zombie-like state," called premature senescence, that can attract the wound-healing properties of the immune system.
The activity of six different genes can help determine survival in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to a study published in Science Advances. The findings by researchers at the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona lay the foundations for new ways of predicting how patients will fare with a type of blood cancer that has widely variable outcomes from one patient to the next.
A new analysis of a phase 3 clinical trial found that the targeted drug daraxonrasib improved survival compared with standard chemotherapy across multiple groups of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, including those with different RAS mutations and those without an identified RAS mutation.
LGBTQ+ college students who experience discrimination are significantly more likely to experience depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts and to avoid needed health care, according to a new national study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Boston University School of Public Health and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. The findings underscore the impact of discrimination on student mental health during a critical stage of life. The results are published in the journal Behavioral Medicine.
A new prospective study from Japan explored whether fish consumption before and during pregnancy is linked to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, including gestational hypertension and preeclampsia. Researchers analyzed data from women in Japan, examining fish consumption and n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) intake across different stages of pregnancy. The results reveal a pattern that may have implications for preconception and prenatal nutrition.
More than 32% of participants in a Rutgers study reported using ChatGPT and similar chatbots for substance-use information.
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