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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 23-Dec-2025 13:11 ET (23-Dec-2025 18:11 GMT/UTC)

22-Oct-2025

Remission achievable for 1 in 3 Indian diabetics through intensive app-based lifestyle program

Nearly one-third of people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) in an Indian cohort achieved remission through an intensive lifestyle intervention program, according to a new study publishing October 22, 2025, in the open-access journal PLOS One by Pramod Tripathi of Freedom from Diabetes Clinic & Diabetes Research Foundation, India, and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS One

22-Oct-2025

Idiopathic hypersomnia is a rare disease of excessive sleepiness, with patients revealing they never feel rested or awake no matter how much sleep they get, in analysis of online posts

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Idiopathic hypersomnia is a rare disease of excessive sleepiness, with patients revealing they never feel rested or awake no matter how much sleep they get, in analysis of online posts

Journal: PLOS One

22-Oct-2025

Fewer women receive lung transplants despite policy changes

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from UCLA Health reveals that women continue to face barriers in accessing lung transplants compared to men, despite recent national policy changes aimed at making organ distribution more equitable.

Journal: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

22-Oct-2025

‘Chronic lung-transplant rejection has been a black box.’ New study gives answers, drug targets.

Northwestern University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

More than 50% of lung-transplant recipients experience a rejection of their new lung within five years of receiving it, yet the reason why this is such a prevalent complication has remained a medical mystery.

Now, a new Northwestern Medicine study has found that, following transplant and in chronic disease states, abnormal cells emerge and “conversations” between them drives the development of lung damage and transplant rejection.

These findings not only help answer why rejection occurs, but they also have spurred immediate exploration of new drugs to treat transplant rejection and other lung-scarring diseases.

Journal: JCI Insight
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

22-Oct-2025

Proper processing is key to pathogen control in recycled manure solids bedding on dairy farms

Elsevier

Bedding choice is a crucial factor in both cow comfort and udder health, and dairy farms in the Midwest are increasingly turning to recycled manure solids (RMS) as a cost-effective and readily available option. But because RMS originates from manure, questions remain about whether it can harbor mastitis-causing bacteria or other pathogens. A new cross-sectional study in JDS Communications, published by Elsevier, explores how different processing methods affect pathogen levels, giving producers clearer insight into the benefits and limitations of RMS bedding.

Journal: JDS Communications

22-Oct-2025

$3.8M grant will launch UC San Diego REACH Center for Translational Science on Whole Person Health

University of California - San Diego
Grant and Award Announcement

The REACH Center will build capacity for novel research in whole person health, linking UC San Diego with complementary and integrative health institutions to drive innovation and improve patient outcomes.

22-Oct-2025

Hunting for the chromosomal genes that break the heart

Sanford Burnham Prebys
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Three copies of chromosome 21 causes Down syndrome. It remains unclear why roughly half of children born with Down syndrome in the United States also have congenital heart defects. In a new paper published in Nature, a team of scientists identify a nuclear binding protein as a key contributor to these trisomy 21-related heart defects.

Journal: Nature