A new study led by researchers at WashU Medicine suggests that younger generations are aging biologically faster than their older counterparts. This faster biological aging was also linked to early-onset cancers.

The Cardiovascular Research Foundation^® (CRF^®) will present the New York Valves Career Achievement Award to Igor F. Palacios, MD, honoring his pioneering advances in structural heart intervention and his enduring influence on cardiovascular medicine through innovation, research, and mentorship. Dr. Palacios will receive the award during New York Valves: The Structural Heart Summit^® to be held June 24–26, 2026 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, North.

Genital herpes is a lifelong infection. While available treatments can manage symptoms, they cannot cure the infection or prevent transmission. Now, Yale School of Medicine researchers have taken a significant step toward a genital herpes vaccine that in preclinical models prevented infection.

In a study published June 19 in Science Immunology, researchers evaluated a two-part vaccination against genital herpes. With the technique, the first part — a typical intramuscular injection like you would receive for a flu shot, for example — is followed by the introduction of nanoparticles to the vagina, where herpes infection occurs in women.

The idea is the initial injection “primes” the immune system while the second localized treatment “pulls” immune activity right to where infection takes place. This study extends the original “prime and pull” approach by developing a new nanoparticle that effectively induces local immunity.

“We’ve found that, in preclinical experiments, this approach is a safe way to recruit the right immune cells in the right place to generate protective immunity,” said senior author Akiko Iwasaki, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that wearable devices may help clinicians detect cytokine release syndrome (CRS)—a common and potentially serious side effect of CAR-T cell therapy—hours earlier than standard hospital monitoring in patients with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that begins in plasma cells in the bone marrow.

New research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has discovered an important link between our genes and sleep habits, suggesting they work together to influence early brain and cognitive changes associated with Alzheimer’s Disease, long before symptoms appear. 

At least 12 percent of Americans now communicate with their healthcare providers about appointments, test results, and ongoing treatments via secure online patient portals and health apps, a new study shows.

The findings of this systematic review and network meta-analysis suggest that combining lifestyle treatment with obesity management medications was associated with the greatest short-term (typically 6 to 12 months) weight reduction in adolescents with obesity. Health behavior and lifestyle treatment remained an indispensable component of any effective weight management, delivering meaningful weight loss and healthier body composition on its own. Combined with lifestyle treatment, pharmacotherapy was a key component, not solely an adjunct, associated with the greatest body mass index (BMI) and BMI z score improvements, and long-term sustainability and safety were monitored.