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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 22-Dec-2025 03:11 ET (22-Dec-2025 08:11 GMT/UTC)

2-Dec-2025

Global study backs mandatory strength warm-ups for female athletes

La Trobe University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Routine strength exercise warm-ups should be mandated to reduce leg injuries in female athletes across all ages and levels of competitive sport, according to a new set of global recommendations co-led by La Trobe University, the University of Calgary and supported by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Journal: British Journal of Sports Medicine
Funder: International Olympic Committee

2-Dec-2025

Global analysis: Nearly one in five child deaths linked to growth failure

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nearly one million children around the globe fail to reach their fifth birthday every year due to devastating health consequences linked to child growth failure, making it the third leading risk factor for mortality and morbidity in children under five.

Journal: The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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