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Medicine & Health

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 21-Dec-2025 20:11 ET (22-Dec-2025 01:11 GMT/UTC)

2-Dec-2025

Why do some lung transplant patients face higher rejection risk?

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

About one third of lung transplant recipients have a genetic variant that makes them more likely to develop chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD), the primary cause of mortality after lung transplantation

2-Dec-2025

A molecular ‘reset button’ for reading the brain through a blood test

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rice bioengineers have designed an erasable serum marker that could enable clinicians to detect problems or measure any changes in how a patient responds to treatment with greater precision, using simple, minimally-invasive testing.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation

2-Dec-2025

Oregon’s first-in-the-nation hospital price cap cut costs without comprising care

Brown University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from scholars at Brown University’s Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research finds that Oregon's payment cap had a minimal impact on hospital finances, and through that, hospital operations and patient experience.

Journal: Health Affairs

2-Dec-2025

UC Irvine-led study uses social media for real-time monitoring of heat experiences in state

University of California - Irvine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

California heat waves are becoming more frequent and intense, and not all residents have access to air conditioning.

Researchers developed a powerful AI-based technique to identify vulnerable communities most in need of mitigation efforts, which could improve heat equity.

The study was supported by the National Science Foundation.

Journal: Weather Climate and Society
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

2-Dec-2025

Mindfulness may help people disconnect from their smartphones

University of British Columbia Okanagan campus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

With more than four billion people around the globe owning a smartphone, researchers are now looking at ways to reduce a growing public health concern—problematic smartphone use.

Dr. Susan Holtzman teaches psychology in UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She recently published a study in Mindfulness examining the overuse or dependence on smartphones and how it might be curbed with mindfulness techniques.

Journal: Mindfulness

2-Dec-2025

Supplement trio shows promise in reversing autism-linked behaviors in mice

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers led by Tzyy-Nan Huang and Ming-Hui Lin from Academia Sinica in Taiwan report that a low-dose mixture of zinc, serine, and branch-chain amino acids can alleviate behavioral deficits in three different mouse models of autism. Published December 2^nd in the open-access journal in PLOS Biology, the study shows that when combined together, these three dietary supplements promote communication between neurons in the brain and improve social behaviors.

Journal: PLOS Biology

2-Dec-2025

People who received emergency or hospital care for hallucinogens six times more likely to be diagnosed with mania

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

People who have received emergency or hospital care in Canada due to hallucinogen use have a six-fold increased risk of receiving care for mania in the next three years, according to a study published December 2^nd in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Daniel Myran from North York General Hospital in Canada and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS Medicine