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30-Jul-2025

Weathering change: Fewer cold fatalities, more heat emergencies in California

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rising temperatures in California are causing fewer cold-related deaths, outweighing heat-related deaths. But hotter temperatures are increasing emergency department visits, placing a greater burden on the healthcare system, report UC San Diego and Stanford University researchers.

Journal

Science Advances

Funder

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

30-Jul-2025

The hidden science of allergy shots

La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) are investigating how allergy immunotherapies target the very immune cells that drive dangerous allergic reactions.

Journal

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health

30-Jul-2025

Scientists say protein separates message-bearing ‘bubbles’ at intersection between brain cells, deepening understanding of cognition

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they unexpectedly found new information about a protein’s special role in getting brain cells to communicate at the right time and place in experiments with genetically engineered mice.

Journal

Nature Neuroscience

Funder

National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Air Force Research Laboratory, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Award, National Science Foundation, American Heart Association, Wellcome Trust, John Fell Fund, La Caixa Foundations, EU-Horizon 2020 MIA-Portugal

30-Jul-2025

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers show eye tracking metrics help identify concussion-related vision disorders

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new study, researchers found that novel eye-tracking metrics can help properly identify concussion-related vision disorders, a common phenomenon among patients with persisting post-concussive symptoms that last more than 28 days after their initial injury.

Journal

Journal of Health and Sport Scıences

Funder

NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

30-Jul-2025

Low FODMAP diet improves leaky gut in study

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Patients with irritable bowel syndrome who went on a low FODMAP diet saw an improvement of colonic barrier dysfunction, commonly known as “leaky gut.”

Journal

Gastroenterology

Funder

NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases