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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 14-Aug-2025 23:11 ET (15-Aug-2025 03:11 GMT/UTC)

30-Jun-2025

Low-intensity brain stimulation may restore neuron health in Alzheimer's disease

SPIE--International Society for Optics and Photonics
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that significantly impairs memory and cognitive functions. To date, there is no cure for AD. Recently, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has shown potential for the treatment of AD. However, individual responses to rTMS vary, and its underlying mechanisms are not clearly understood. In a recent study, researchers explored the effects of rTMS on neural cells in mouse models of AD, revealing a potential new treatment strategy.

Journal: Neurophotonics

30-Jun-2025

Tens of thousands of heart attacks and strokes could be avoided each year if cholesterol-lowering drugs were used according to guidelines

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers has identified a significant gap between the number of U.S. patients for whom cholesterol-lowering drugs such as statins are recommended and the actual number of patients who take them.

30-Jun-2025

Hospital Internacional de Colombia becomes first in Colombia and South America to join Mayo Clinic Care Network

Mayo Clinic
Business Announcement

Hospital Internacional de Colombia (HIC) and Mayo Clinic announced that HIC in Bucaramanga has joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network. HIC is the first hospital in Colombia and in South America to join the network, a group of carefully vetted health care organizations with special access to Mayo Clinic's knowledge and expertise.

30-Jun-2025

Rice bioengineer looks to mitochondria as key to heart failure recovery

Rice University
Grant and Award Announcement

Rice bioengineer Mario Escobar has won a Transformational Project Award from the American Heart Association to develop a new therapy for heart failure.

Funder: American Heart Association

30-Jun-2025

Where there’s fire, there’s smoke

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new online platform, SMRT-Flames, can identify areas in need of land management in order to reduce future smoke exposures from uncontrolled fires. While most wildfire tools predict fire risk, SMRT-Flames explicitly considers smoke exposure across populations

Journal: Environmental Science & Technology

30-Jun-2025

UCLA researchers uncover key mechanism of brain repair in vascular dementia, revealing promising therapeutic target

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

A new study from UCLA Health has uncovered how inflammation in brain blood vessels exacerbates damage in vascular dementia and demonstrated that targeting this process with a repurposed drug can promote brain repair and functional recovery in mice.

Journal: Cell

30-Jun-2025

Landmark study investigates potential of Ambroxol, a cough medicine, to slow Parkinson’s-related dementia

Lawson Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Lawson Research Institute (Lawson), the research arm of St. Joseph’s Health Care London, are investigating whether Ambroxol - a cough medicine used safely for decades in Europe - can slow dementia in people with Parkinson’s disease. A new paper suggests Ambroxol can improve memory and psychiatric symptoms for people with Parkinson's disease.

Journal: JAMA Neurology
Funder: Weston Family Foundation