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Medicine & Health

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 26-Dec-2025 04:11 ET (26-Dec-2025 09:11 GMT/UTC)

27-Nov-2025

Air pollution may reduce health benefits of exercise

University College London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Long-term exposure to toxic air can substantially weaken the health benefits of regular exercise, suggests a new study by an international team including UCL (University College London) researchers.

Journal: BMC Medicine
Funder: National Science and Technology Council, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, National Chung-Hsing University

27-Nov-2025

Inhibiting a master regulator of aging regenerates joint cartilage in mice

Stanford Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Osteoarthritis due to aging or injury affects 20% of the U.S. population. A Stanford Medicine-led study found that blocking a ‘gerozyme’ reverses cartilage loss in mice and human tissue.

Journal: Science

27-Nov-2025

ECDC updates its key facts on vaccine effectiveness and safety and how vaccines used in the EU are evaluated

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Reports and Proceedings

Vaccines are one of the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions. Thanks to global immunisation efforts, an estimated 154 million lives have been saved, including 146 million among children younger than five years old in the last fifty years. ECDC has updated its key facts on the value, effectiveness and safety of vaccines, explaining how vaccines used in the EU are evaluated in a transparent way and independently from commercial interests. The evidence of how vaccines contribute to the prevention of serious diseases in the population is also laid out.

27-Nov-2025

ResNet-Based system offers new tool for power grid icing risk assessment

Maximum Academic Press

A research team has developed a deep learning-based model that can accurately identify wire icing risk levels from image data, providing a powerful alternative to conventional observation methods.

Journal: Emergency Management Science and Technology

27-Nov-2025

Point-of-care rapid tests can improve screening for latent tuberculosis

Karolinska Institutet
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new test shows promising results for detecting latent tuberculosis infection in resource-limited settings. This is according to a study from Karolinska Institutet, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases

27-Nov-2025

How a gene shapes the architecture of the human brain

Deutsches Primatenzentrum (DPZ)/German Primate Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim and the German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen has now used organoids to show that the ARHGAP11A gene plays a crucial role in brain development. If this gene is missing, key processes involved in cell division and structure become unbalanced.

Journal: Cell Reports

27-Nov-2025

How reactive oxygen species target viruses differently: new clues for safer water disinfection

Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, MEE
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Viruses in water pose major public health threats, yet their structural diversity makes them unequally susceptibility to disinfection.

Journal: Eco-Environment & Health