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Medicine & Health

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 15-Aug-2025 10:10 ET (15-Aug-2025 14:10 GMT/UTC)

2-Jun-2025

WVU student discovers long-awaited mystery fungus sought by LSD’s inventor

West Virginia University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Making a discovery with the potential for innovative applications in pharmaceutical development, a West Virginia University microbiology student has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effects similar to the semisynthetic drug LSD, which is used to treat conditions like depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction.

Journal: Mycologia
Funder: WVU Davis College Student Enhancement Grant

2-Jun-2025

It’s not too late to start eating better for your brain

American Society for Nutrition
Reports and Proceedings

As the U.S. population ages and dementia cases rise, many people are asking whether it is possible to prevent this devastating disease. According to a new study, the answer may be on your plate: People who followed a dietary pattern known as the MIND diet were significantly less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease or related forms of dementia.

Meeting: NUTRITION 2025

2-Jun-2025

Clairity becomes the first FDA-authorized AI platform for breast cancer prediction – historic milestone for women’s health

LaVoieHealthScience
Business Announcement

Clairity, Inc., a digital health innovator advancing AI-driven healthcare solutions, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) De Novo authorization for CLAIRITY BREAST, a novel, image-based prognostic platform designed to predict five-year breast cancer risk from a routine screening mammogram. With this authorization, Clairity is planning to launch among leading health systems through 2025 – propelling a new era of precision medicine in breast cancer.

2-Jun-2025

Immunotherapy before surgery improves lung cancer survival in global clinical trial led by Irish cancer specialist

Trinity College Dublin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Results from a phase 3 clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, today show that patients with lung cancer who received an immunotherapy drug, nivolumab, along with standard chemotherapy before surgery had improved long term survival compared to those who received chemotherapy alone, at 5 years after completing treatment.

Journal: New England Journal of Medicine

2-Jun-2025

CNIC scientists uncover how the immune response drives atherosclerosis—the root cause of heart attacks and strokes

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study led by the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) reveals the critical role of conventional type 1 dendritic cells (cDC1s) in the development of atherosclerosis

Journal: Circulation Research
Funder: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, State Research Agency and the European Union NextGeneration, Comunidad de Madrid, “la Caixa” Foundation

2-Jun-2025

International study evaluates outcomes of oncologic extended resection for gallbladder cancer

Boston University School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new multi-center study led by Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, researchers have found that aggressive surgery in patients with advanced gallbladder cancer (T3/T4) can lead to high complication and mortality rates, especially in those in the T4 patients that invade adjacents organs of the disease.

Journal: Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

2-Jun-2025

Passage of child access protection and concealed carry permits laws could substantially reduce firearm suicides

Boston University School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study by researchers from Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, has found that more than 110,000 firearm suicides could potentially have been prevented (from 2010-2019) had each state implemented the most impactful firearm related law in that state, specifically including child access prevention laws and concealed carry permitting policies.

Journal: Annals of Surgery