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Medicine & Health

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 25-Jun-2026 23:16 ET (26-Jun-2026 03:16 GMT/UTC)

4-May-2026

Research aims to identify underlying causes for linked mental-health issues

University of Kansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The investigation, appearing in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, relied on the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP), an emerging alternative to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the traditional guide for diagnosing and treating patients. The findings suggest HiTOP’s use of symptom dimensions may better support more precise, personalized mental health care.

4-May-2026

Researchers uncover brain mechanism that may help slow Parkinson’s disease, curiously only in females

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By boosting nicotine‑responsive receptors — without using nicotine itself — scientists protected brain cells from degeneration.

Journal: JNeurosci
Funder: American Parkinson Disease Association

4-May-2026

Cannabis microdosing more common than psychedelics among US adults, national survey finds

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from UC San Diego have found that microdosing — taking very small amounts of psychoactive substances — is more common among U.S. adults than previously recognized, with cannabis leading by a wide margin.

Journal: American Journal of Preventive Medicine

4-May-2026

Study finds major gaps in dementia care across Mississippi

University of Mississippi
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Some 80% of Mississippi counties have no adult day service centers, and even counties that do have centers cannot meet the needs of people with dementia and their caregivers, a new University of Mississippi-led study indicates.

Journal: Journal of Applied Gerontology

4-May-2026

New study finds low-dose eye drops successful in managing adult myopia for 24 hours

University of Houston
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Groundbreaking research from the University of Houston shows that a single low-dose atropine eye drop can produce daylong effects in managing myopia, or nearsightedness, which affects roughly one-third of U.S. adults.

Journal: Eye and Vision

4-May-2026

Climate change increases spillover risk of rodent-borne arenaviruses

University of California - Davis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate change is likely to drive rodent-borne arenaviruses into parts of South America that have never faced these diseases, putting new communities at risk, finds a UC Davis study.

Journal: npj Viruses
Funder: Wellcome Trust

4-May-2026

Grant backs early-career research on metabolism and food choices

Virginia Tech
Grant and Award Announcement

A Virginia Tech research scientists with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health Mentored Research Scientist Development Award to study how metabolic health influences the brain systems that shape what and how we eat. The four-year award will support her research into how obesity and insulin resistance affect reward learning and decision-making in the human brain.

4-May-2026

Jonathan H. Whiteson, MD, named chair of NYU Langone Health’s Rusk Rehabilitation

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Business Announcement

NYU Langone Health has appointed Jonathan H. Whiteson, MD, a nationally recognized leader in physical medicine and rehabilitation, as chair of Rusk Rehabilitation, one of the top-ranked centers of its kind in the nation.

4-May-2026

UC Santa Cruz receives California Department of Fish and Wildlife funding to assess health of state’s streams

University of California - Santa Cruz
Grant and Award Announcement

* The project will use environmental DNA (eDNA)—traces of genetic material left behind by organisms—to understand the health of streams throughout California and assess impacts from land use and climate change.

* This work will combine advanced machine learning and geospatial data with the on-the-ground efforts of hundreds of volunteer community scientists.

* The project will launch an open-source, low-cost cloud platform so that Indigenous tribes, land managers, watershed groups, and local agencies have the tools to evaluate stream conditions and monitor biodiversity.

Funder: California Department of Fish and Wildlife