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Medicine & Health

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 15-Aug-2025 08:10 ET (15-Aug-2025 12:10 GMT/UTC)

5-Jun-2025

Pregnant women are often uninsured and go without needed care in abortion-ban states, study shows

Pregnant women are more often uninsured and have worse access to routine medical care in states that ban (or restrict) abortion care, according to a new study appearing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier, from researchers at Harvard Medical School, the City University of New York’s Hunter College, and other institutions. The researchers also link the deficiencies in pregnancy coverage and care to abortion-ban/restriction states’ skimpy Medicaid programs.

Journal: American Journal of Preventive Medicine

5-Jun-2025

Chinese Medical Journal study uncovers the role of non-coding RNA in pancreatic cancer

Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co., Ltd.
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Dysregulation of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) promotes pancreatic cancer growth, metastasis, treatment resistance, and cancer stemness. To shed light on the mechanisms behind their dysregulation, researchers from China, conducted a scientific review that summarizes how ncRNAs are involved in pancreatic cancer progression. Their study highlights that ncRNAs can act as scaffolds, promoting protein-protein/nucleotide interactions, as protein sponges that limit protein interactions, and by translocating proteins to various subcellular compartments.

Journal: Chinese Medical Journal

5-Jun-2025

Multiple sclerosis: Triggers in the gut flora

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Study of twins detects bacteria in the small intestine that play a role in the development of MS

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

5-Jun-2025

Biking in an MRI machine to check your heart health

Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Medical Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) will help more doctors use a simple test called Exercise Cardiac MRI to diagnose heart conditions accurately and at an earlier stage.

Journal: Radiology Cardiothoracic Imaging

4-Jun-2025

Duke-NUS researchers compile ‘handbook’ to fast-track breakthroughs in scarring research

Duke-NUS Medical School
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Duke-NUS-led team compiled a 'handbook' of key insights from over 200 studies on immune cell types, their location and their behavioural changes over time, providing an evidence-based start line to accelerate scarring research. Their start line points to the changeable behaviour of a type of immune cell, called macrophage, that has emerged as a key driver of excessive scarring.

Journal: Nature Reviews Immunology

4-Jun-2025

UCLA psychiatrist named as emerging leader in health by National Academy of Medicine

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Grant and Award Announcement

Dr. Enrico Castillo, assistant professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been named as an emerging leader in health and medicine scholar by the National Academy of Medicine.

4-Jun-2025

Baby's microbiome may protect against childhood viral infection

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

UK babies with a specific mix of gut bacteria have a lower risk of being hospitalised for viral lower respiratory tract infection in the first two years of life.

Journal: The Lancet Microbe
Funder: Wellcome Trust, UCL Institute for Public Health