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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 15-Jun-2025 05:09 ET (15-Jun-2025 09:09 GMT/UTC)

Poor heart health increases risk of dementia for Black Americans

University of Georgia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Diabetes and hypertension could have a domino effect for future health problems like dementia — especially for Black Americans, according to a new University of Georgia study.

Journal: Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

AI tool accurately sorts cancer patients by their likely outcomes

Weill Cornell Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new artificial intelligence-based method accurately sorts cancer patients into groups that have similar characteristics before treatment and similar outcomes after treatment, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. The new approach has the potential to enable better patient selection in clinical trials and better treatment selection for individual patients.

Journal: Nature Communications

Non-variceal extrahepatic portosystemic shunts: A review of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment

Xia & He Publishing Inc.
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Extrahepatic portosystemic shunts (EPS) are abnormal vascular communications between the portal and systemic venous systems, often emerging in the context of liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension. While variceal EPS, such as esophageal and gastric varices, are well-recognized, non-variceal EPS (NVEPS) remain underdiagnosed and misunderstood despite their clinical significance. This review synthesizes the latest knowledge on the pathogenesis, classification, diagnosis, complications, and management of NVEPS.

Journal: Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology

Mount Sinai researchers in semifinals of $101 million XPRIZE Healthspan, a competition seeking innovative approaches to aging well

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

Investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been named semifinalists—and one of the Top 40 Milestone Award winners—in the prestigious XPRIZE Healthspan, a $101 million global competition dedicated to transforming how we age. XPRIZE Healthspan challenges the world’s top scientists and clinicians to develop treatments that can restore muscle strength, cognitive performance, and immune function in older adults by at least 10 years, with a bold goal of 20 years. Selected from a highly competitive international pool, Mount Sinai’s multidisciplinary team, NYC-Vita, stood out for its innovative, feasible, and safe approach. The team was named a Milestone 1 Awardee in the competition, earning $250,000 in funding to advance to the next phase: a clinical trial to be conducted in New York City.

New book explores the co-creation of service value in data-driven digital health platforms

Maximum Academic Press
Book Announcement

The digital health sector is evolving rapidly, with data analytics playing an increasingly important role in shaping the future of healthcare delivery.

Must-know facts for women about heart, kidney and metabolic health

American Heart Association
Business Announcement

Women’s life stages and social factors shape their connected heart, kidney and diabetes risks

Buck Institute team is named semifinalist of XPrize Healthspan

Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Grant and Award Announcement

The Buck Institute for Research on Aging is proud to announce that a team of Buck scientists, in collaboration with colleagues at Hospital-University Institute HealthAge at the University of Toulouse, has been named a semifinalist for the 7-year, $101 million XPRIZE Healthspan. The global competition is intended to revolutionize how we approach human aging. Competing teams are tasked with developing and testing modalities that restore muscle, cognition, and immune function by a minimum of 10 years, with an ambitious goal of 20 years, in persons aged 50-80 years, in one year or less.