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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 25-Dec-2025 18:11 ET (25-Dec-2025 23:11 GMT/UTC)

Autism: What does the latest science tell us?

Society for Neuroscience
Meeting Announcement

Experts are raising the alarm on the resurgence of unproven claims related to the causes of autism. Unverified assertions about Tylenol® usage during pregnancy and vaccines administered to infants are leading to confusion for families and distrust in science. Autism clinicians and researchers will be available to take questions about this very timely topic at Neuroscience 2025, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) and the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.

Meeting: Neuroscience 2025

CUNY SPH honors activist Byllye Avery with nation’s first endowed professorship in sexual and reproductive justice

CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
Business Announcement

On Thursday, the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) officially launched the Byllye Avery Professorship in Sexual & Reproductive Justice, the nation’s first of its kind. The announcement was marked with a celebration that brought together reproductive justice leaders and philanthropists, including Avery, Loretta Ross, Dr. Natalia Kanem, and Abigail Disney.

Short fasts do not impair thinking ability in healthy adults

American Psychological Association
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Skipping breakfast or practicing intermittent fasting is unlikely to cloud most adults’ thinking in the short term, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

Journal: Psychological Bulletin

Postpartum psychosis: International experts seek to save lives of mothers, babies

University of Virginia Health System
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international panel of leading women’s mental health experts – including UVA Health’s Jennifer Payne, MD – is calling to reclassify postpartum psychosis as its own category of mental illness to improve the care new mothers receive.

Journal: Biological Psychiatry

Chance to identify young people at risk of cardiac arrest

University of Gothenburg
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Many young people who suffered sudden cardiac death had recently sought medical care. More frequent use of electrocardiograms (ECG) could help prevent such cases, according to researchers at the University of Gothenburg.

Journal: The American Journal of Cardiology

Professor Agnes Binagwaho receives Cameron Award for Population Health

RCSI
Business Announcement

RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has presented the Cameron Award for Population Health to Professor Agnes Binagwaho, co-founder and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda.

Study: More states eliminating insurance hurdles for opioid use disorder medications

Tulane University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Twenty-two states now prohibit prior authorization for opioid use disorder medications such as methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone, up from two states in 2015. The upward trend signals a willingness by many state legislatures to address the opioid crisis.

Journal: Health Affairs
Funder: NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse