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

Association of grandmaternal and maternal age difference at delivery with maternal pregnancy cardiometabolic disorders

KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study reveals that a greater age difference between mothers and their daughters at delivery is associated with an increased risk of maternal pregnancy cardiometabolic disorders (diabetes, hypertension, or overweight/obesity). The findings highlight the need to consider intergenerational reproductive dynamics in assessing pregnancy health risks.

Journal: Healthcare and Rehabilitation
Funder: China Medical Board Open Competition Program, Jiangsu Maternal and Child Health Program

Organ preservation strategies: Extended sleeve lobectomy after neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy offers optimal option for centrally located NSCLC

National Center for Respiratory Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In this April 2025 issue of Annals of Thoracic Surgery (JCR Q1, IF: 3.6), a retrospective study, led by Professors Jianxing He and Shuben Li from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, illustrated the safety, feasibility, and efficacy of extended sleeve lobectomy (ESL) after neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy in patients with centrally located non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

The article entitled "Extended Sleeve Lobectomy After Neoadjuvant Immunochemotherapy for Centrally Located Non-small Cell Lung Cancer". It is the first study to evaluate the impact of neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy on ESL. The results demonstrated that ESL after neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy is a viable and safe option for selected patients with centrally located NSCLC to avoid pneumonectomy(PN), especially when standard sleeve lobectomy (SSL) is insufﬁcient for R0 resection.

Journal: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Military discharge is a time of challenge and opportunity

Flinders University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The military prides itself on loyalty and respect but those values must extend to how they treat those who leave service.

A new study analysed responses from nearly 400 former Australian Defence Force (ADF) members, uncovering widespread dissatisfaction with their discharge including reporting overt abuses of power and objectively harmful actions, such as finding their belongings packed up and removed from base and being marched off base without notice or means of travel.

Journal: Frontiers in Psychology
Funder: Military and Emergency Services Health Australian, The Hospital Research Foundation Group

Military discharge is a time of challenge and opportunity

Flinders University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The military prides itself on loyalty and respect but those values must extend to how they treat those who leave service.

A new study analysed responses from nearly 400 former Australian Defence Force (ADF) members, uncovering widespread dissatisfaction with their discharge including reporting overt abuses of power and objectively harmful actions, such as finding their belongings packed up and removed from base and being marched off base without notice or means of travel.

Journal: Frontiers in Psychology
Funder: Military and Emergency Services Health Australian, The Hospital Research Foundation Group

Stanford Medicine-led phase 3 trial shows gene therapy skin grafts help epidermolysis bullosa

Stanford Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Genetically engineered skin grafts, a product of decades of Stanford Medicine research, help heal chronic wounds in patients with a severe, painful genetic disease.

Journal: The Lancet

A game-changing wireless implant for personalized chronic pain relief

University of Southern California
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Now, researchers from USC Viterbi’s Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Keck School of Medicine, in collaboration with researchers at UCLA, have developed a revolutionary solution: a flexible ultrasound-induced wireless implantable (UIWI) stimulator secured to the spine and designed for personalized, self-adaptive chronic pain management.

Journal: Nature Electronics
Funder: Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Office of Naval Research, American Heart Association, American Heart Association

AI chatbot safeguards fail to prevent spread of health disinformation

American College of Physicians
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study assessed the effectiveness of safeguards in foundational large language models (LLMs) to protect against malicious instruction that could turn them into tools for spreading disinformation, or the deliberate creation and dissemination of false information with the intent to harm.

Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine