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Wearable smart patch could deliver automatic aid during a fentanyl overdose

Virginia Tech
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A wearable patch that detects fentanyl and releases naloxone automatically offers a potential new approach to preventing unwitnessed opioid overdose deaths.

Journal: Advanced Science

Mizzou study shows small scheduling change has big health benefits for night-shift physicians

University of Missouri-Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

University of Missouri researchers have found that a simple scheduling change can improve the health and well-being of physicians working overnight shifts.

Journal: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine

New book reveals how to manage pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes without drugs, weight loss or supplements

University of Virginia Health System
Book Announcement

Researcher Daniel J. Cox, PhD, not only created the GEM program, he has used it to put his type 2 diabetes in remission for the past 15 years.

UC San Diego receives $12.3 million grant to study the intersection of HIV and methamphetamine use

University of California - San Diego
Grant and Award Announcement

UC San Diego has launched Brain-FRAMe, an innovative program integrating neuroscience and immunology to improve brain health and clinical care for people living with HIV and methamphetamine use disorder.

New research traces the evolution of wastewater and environmental surveillance in carceral settings and analyzes the ethical, medical, legal challenges

Boston University School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) – the analysis of water and environmental samples like sewage to enable early, non-invasive tracking of biological and chemical markers across a population – is a powerful and increasingly common public health tool. When paired with clinical data, it offers a real-time window into community health that can inform faster, more targeted responses to infectious disease. However, its use in carceral settings like jails and prisons remains ethically underexamined.

In a brief analytic essay in the American Journal of Public Health, a team comprised of Boston University and University of Louisville researchers found that carceral WES is neither fully covered by human subjects protections nor fully accountable to traditional public health guidelines, producing a fragmented regulatory landscape in which some safeguards impede informed and effective research while others fail to prevent misuse or harm to incarcerated individuals and surrounding communities.

Journal: American Journal of Public Health

Insilico Medicine included in MSCI Global Small Cap Indexes, gaining capital market endorsement in core strengths

InSilico Medicine
Business Announcement

Insilico Medicine ("Insilico", HKEX: 3696), a clinical-stage drug discovery company powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI), announced that it will be included in MSCI Global Small Cap Indexes compiled by Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI). The change will take effect as of the close of August 31, 2026.

Natural biopolymer beads as a smart solution for sustainable wastewater treatment and more

Hasanuddin University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new review from Hasanuddin University highlights how chitosan and alginate-based composite beads could be the next-generation solution for sustainable wastewater remediation. By combining naturally derived biopolymers with functional additives, these composite beads demonstrate improved adsorption capacity, mechanical stability, reusability, and stronger pollutant binding. The review outlines a roadmap for advancing such composites into stimuli-responsive smart materials and extending their applications beyond water treatment to circular bioeconomy, smart agriculture, and even precision medicine.

Journal: Bioresource Technology Reports

Immunotherapy found effective against a subtype of difficult-to-treat ovarian cancer

Kindai University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research group led by Kosuke Murakami, Lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine (Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture), and Professor Noriomi Matsumura, Head of the Department, together with collaborators including Shiki Takamura, Team Director of the Laboratory for Immunological Memory, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (Wako City, Saitama Prefecture), and the Department of Immunology at Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, has revealed, through studies in both humans and mice, that a subset of clear cell ovarian cancers^*2, which has been considered difficult to treat with anticancer drugs and immunotherapy, contains a type that responds to immunotherapy.

Journal: Molecular Cancer

Assistance systems to fight shortage of skilled workforce: XR supports sight-impaired people at work

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Reports and Proceedings

When people with a sight impairment cannot cope with everyday tasks, it is often not due to a lack of competence, but rather because of impediments existing in their environment. A mobile assistance system, which is currently under development by researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB), is designed to help them achieve greater independence in their daily work and make it easier for qualified professionals to secure jobs. Extended-reality glasses (XR), combined with Artificial Intelligence will adapt their working environment to individual vision requirements.