Bright children from poorer backgrounds are twice as likely to be admitted to hospital with mental health problems than high-achievers with affluent upbringings. 

The “great unwinding” at the end of March 2023 meant that more than 25 million people — about 30 percent of all Medicaid recipients — were removed from the program. Now, in the first study of its kind, researchers have analyzed how the unwinding affected the payer mix for children’s emergency department visits in Texas. During the unwinding, about 1.2 million children in the state lost health insurance coverage.

A large portion of the global population with diabetes remains undiagnosed or is not receiving optimal care, according to a new study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a global network of collaborators conducted the analysis of the diabetes care cascade for all ages, both sexes, and 204 countries and territories from 2000 to 2023.

Researchers have created new light-controlled tools that respond to blue light with pinpoint accuracy, offering safer, more precise treatments in the future.

At the 2025 World Conference on Lung Cancer in Barcelona, the 23andMe Research Institute, in collaboration with Troper Wojcicki Philanthropies and the health data software company Lifebit, introduced an open source platform that could help fast-track research discoveries through a powerful new cancer data repository. Access to this powerful new tool is FREE to qualified researchers.