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

New study suggests that PTSD is an important mental health comorbidity for veterans with diabetes

Boston University School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nearly one in four U.S. adults over the age of 65 have diabetes. Older Veterans are highly impacted by this disease, in part due to risk factors incurred during their military service such as exposure to Agent Orange and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Diabetes requires active and ongoing daily self-management and increases the risk of developing other chronic health conditions, which negatively impact functioning and disability.

In a new study, researchers have found that veteran men and women with both PTSD and diabetes were at heightened risk of disability and poor physical health functioning compared with veterans with neither condition or PTSD and diabetes only. This is one of the first large-scale studies to investigate the impact of co-occurring PTSD and diabetes on functioning and disability outcomes.

Journal: Health Psychology

Registration now open for the 9th IOF Asia-Pacific Bone Health Conference in Tokyo

International Osteoporosis Foundation
Meeting Announcement

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) announces the opening of registrations for the 9th IOF Asia-Pacific Bone Health Conference, taking place in Tokyo, Japan, from December 11–13, 2025. The preliminary programme highlights, including the planned launch of the IOF Asia Pacific Regional Audit during the Conference, are also outlined.

Meeting: 9th Asia-Pacific Bone Health Conference

Machine-learning model reliably predicts cognitive performance

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study offers insight into the health and lifestyle indicators — including diet, physical activity and weight — that align most closely with healthy brain function across the lifespan. The study used machine learning to determine which variables best predicted a person’s ability to quickly complete a task without becoming distracted.

Journal: Journal of Nutrition

Space conditions can cause gum inflammation and bone loss, say scientists

University of Sharjah
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As space travel becomes a real possibility for longer missions, including journeys to Mars, scientists are looking more closely at how space conditions affect human health.

Journal: Journal of Periodontal Research

MHP-Net: A revolutionary AI model for accurate liver tumor segmentation for diagnosis and therapy

Institute of Science Tokyo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Signaling a major advance in small-data AI for medical imaging, a research team from Institute of Science Tokyo has developed a novel artificial intelligence model called “MHP-Net,” which delivers cutting-edge performance in liver tumor segmentation with a limited dataset. Unlike conventional models that require thousands of patient cases, this model uses sampling of 3D patches obtained from 7 to 28 tumors. Also, it outperforms the top entry of the MICCAI 2017 (worldwide liver tumor segmentation competition).

Journal: IEEE Access
Funder: JST-Mirai Program

Climate change linked to dangerous sleep apnea

Flinders University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The first study of its kind to outline how global warming is expected to affect breathing during sleep and impact the world’s health, wellbeing and economy. Published in leading journal, Nature Communications, it found that rising temperatures increase the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and that under the most likely climate change scenarios, the societal burden of OSA is expected to double in most countries over the next 75 years.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Meeting: ATS 2025 International Conference

EuroHeartPath project launched to transform cardiovascular care across Europe

European Society of Cardiology
Business Announcement

EuroHeartPath aims to transform cardiovascular care across Europe by analysing how care is organised and identifying best practices.

The project will conduct 18 ‘pathfinder’ studies to improve early detection, diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of heart conditions, with a strong focus on prevention.

The four key study areas will be AI & machine learning, digital health, point-of-care testing and technology & robotics.

The project’s vision is a future with significantly reduced burden of heart disease on patients, healthcare systems, and economies.