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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 15-Aug-2025 06:10 ET (15-Aug-2025 10:10 GMT/UTC)

25-Jun-2025

New research on home care cooperatives identifies novel approaches for improving home care quality

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

Research on home care cooperatives – agencies co-owned and managed by home care workers – has identified key factors that appear to significantly improve the quality of care for patients, all centered on empowering workers as stakeholders: incorporation of worker input into care planning; a boost in motivation derived from being co-owners; selective hiring of high-performing workers; and access to high-quality, hands-on training

Journal: Health Affairs Scholar
Funder: National Institute on Aging, UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Cornell University Center for Applied Research on Work, Rutgers University Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

25-Jun-2025

Sylvester Cancer Tip Sheet - June 2025

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Reports and Proceedings

25-Jun-2025

Common medicine for autoimmune diseases works on giant cell arteritis

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Treatment with upadacitinib, a JAK inhibitor, resulted in sustained remission for almost half of the clinical trial patients with giant cell arteritis

Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
Funder: AbbVie

25-Jun-2025

Liver organoid breakthrough: Generating organ-specific blood vessels

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Major step forward in liver organoid technology could lead to new ways to help people living with hemophilia and other coagulation disorders while also taking another step closer to producing transplantable repair tissues for people with damaged livers.

Journal: Nature Biomedical Engineering
Funder: Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Mitsubishi Foundation, Japan Science and Technology Agency

25-Jun-2025

Nitrate in drinking water linked to preterm birth rates

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Even low levels of nitrate—a common agricultural runoff and drinking water contaminant—are associated with increased risks of preterm birth and low birthweight babies, according to a new study published June 25 in PLOS Water by Jason Semprini of Des Moines University College of Health Sciences, US.

Journal: PLOS Water

25-Jun-2025

More family doctors near retirement in Ontario, raising concern about future of primary care

University of Ottawa
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from the University of Ottawa has found 1.74 million patients in Ontario are attached to family physicians aged 65 or older, and that many of those patients are elderly and have complex medical needs.

Journal: Canadian Family Physician

25-Jun-2025

Scientists advance prospects for permanently putting aids virus into dormant state using gene therapy

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a study of human immune cells infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say a molecule within HIV itself can be manipulated and amplified to force the virus into long-term dormancy, a state in which HIV does not replicate.

Journal: Science Advances