The Mindfulness and Tai Chi for Cancer Health (MATCH) study looked at over 500 cancer survivors with varying types and stages of cancer and found that patients experienced less pain, fatigue, and sleep problems after participating in the interventions. The study, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, was a collaborative effort between researchers at the University of Calgary, University of Toronto and Mass General Brigham in Boston, Massachusetts.  

A new perspective led by University of Alabama Professor Rebecca K. Ivic, PhD, with CUNY SPH Distinguished Lecturer Scott C. Ratzan, MD and Emory University School of Medicine Professor Emerita Ruth M. Parker, MD, introduces the concept of health-literate artificial intelligence and proposes four principles for designing and governing AI-mediated health communication: comprehension, agency, accountability, and proportionality.

When policymakers and city officials plan for climate change, they rely on economic studies showing how extreme heat impacts violent crime, public health, energy grids and crop yields. However, a new study published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists reveals a hidden problem in that research: the temperatures used in many climate-impact studies can contain substantial measurement error, leading researchers to misestimate the true impacts of temperature and, on average, potentially understate climate impacts by at least 15%.

Tulane University researchers have developed CANDI, a CRISPR-based diagnostic platform that identifies the specific species of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) causing lung infections within hours instead of the current four-to-six-week standard, achieving 97.3% accuracy across 230 clinical samples. Since NTM lung disease is often confused with tuberculosis but requires different treatment, this faster test could help the estimated 300,000 Americans affected annually get on the correct treatment plan much sooner.