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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 25-Dec-2025 02:11 ET (25-Dec-2025 07:11 GMT/UTC)

Leading fetal & neonatal surgeon joins NYU Langone Health as Director of Advanced Fetal Care Center

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Business Announcement

The surgeon–scientist Dr. Jose L. Peiro Ibanez joins NYU Langone Health to lead its Advanced Fetal Care Center, expanding expertise in complex fetal care and surgery.

Study helps to understand the role of genetics in the body weight

Estonian Research Council
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Estonia’s obesity rate has been steadily climbing and so have scientific efforts to understand why. New study, published in Nature Communications, takes a closer look at the genes behind body weight and how they might point toward future treatments for obesity.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: Horizon research and innovation program, European Regional Development Fund, Estonian Research Council, Center of Excellence of Well-Being Sciences

New textbook highlights environmental impact of medicines and pathways to sustainable pharmacy

University of Helsinki
Book Announcement

University of Helsinki, Faculty of Pharmacy has released a new textbook "Medicines and the Environment: Challenges and Solutions for Sustainable Pharmacy". This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of sustainability issues across the pharmaceutical lifecycle.

Funder: NordForsk

Machine learning and solar energy drive sustainable soil decontamination

Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, MEE
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Soil contamination remains a global challenge, threatening ecosystems, agriculture, and human health. Conventional remediation strategies, while effective, are often energy-intensive and carbon-heavy, limiting their long-term sustainability.

Journal: Eco-Environment & Health

Subretinal implant partially restores vision in AMD patients

INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) causes progressive vision loss in many elderly people, and no treatment is available for the so-called atrophic form of the disease. A neurostimulation system called Prima, including a subretinal implant, could change all that. The results of a clinical trial involving Inserm, Sorbonne University and CNRS - via the Institut de la vision -, the Hôpital Fondation Adolphe de Rothschild and the Hôpital national des 15-20 show that it partially restored sight in over 80% of participants with AMD, who recovered their ability to read letters, numbers and words. The results are published in the New England journal of medicine.

Journal: New England Journal of Medicine

Retinal implant restores central vision in patients with advanced AMD, study co-led by Pitt investigator shows

University of Pittsburgh
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A wireless retinal implant can restore central vision in patients with advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to clinical trial results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Advanced atrophic AMD, also known as geographic atrophy (GA), is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in older adults, affecting more than 5 million people worldwide.

Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
Funder: Science Corporation, Alameda, CA, National Institute for Health and Care Research Biomedical Research Centre based at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration

Stanford Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a Stanford Medicine-led clinical trial of a wireless retinal prosthesis, people with advanced macular degeneration regained enough vision to read books and subway signs.

Journal: New England Journal of Medicine