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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 26-Dec-2025 20:11 ET (27-Dec-2025 01:11 GMT/UTC)

16-Oct-2025

Study of incarcerated women in Chile, substance use disorders were associated with higher rates of recidivism, reincarceration, victimization

Rutgers University Newark School of Criminal Justice
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new study, researchers explored the mental health of incarcerated women in Santiago, Chile, before they were released and at several times after release. Most women’s mental health symptoms were stable during the first year after release, but pre-release screening missed women with increasingly severe symptoms and with substance dependency during re-entry. In addition, women were provided mental health care services at alarmingly low rates, researchers found.

Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Funder: San Carlos de Maipo and Colunga Foundation, Inter-American Development Bank, American Society of Criminology, Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Millennium Science Initiatives, FONDECYT Chile

16-Oct-2025

Smartphone-based relaxation program reduces disability for emergency department migraine patients

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A smartphone app for muscle relaxation significantly reduced migraine-related disability in patients visiting the emergency department, a new study shows.

Journal: JAMA Network Open
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health

16-Oct-2025

PFAS detected for first time on Miccosukee Indian reservation: study raises concerns for Everglades water quality

Florida International University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the first time, researchers from Florida International University (FIU), working in collaboration with the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, have detected a dozen different “forever chemicals” known as PFAS (perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances) within the Miccosukee Indian Reservation in the Everglades. The findings, published in Environmental Research, raise new questions about potential impacts to water quality, ecosystem health and ongoing Everglades restoration efforts.

Journal: Environmental Research
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation

16-Oct-2025

Muscle wasting reversed in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Newcastle University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis increased their leg muscle volume when treated with an anti-rheumatic drug, offering new hope for improved muscle health.

Journal: The Lancet Rheumatology

16-Oct-2025

Miniature noses to help prevent infections and promote nasal health

Baylor College of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Baylor College of Medicine researchers used a miniature model of the human nose to study how bacteria can live in nasal passages.

Journal: mSphere

16-Oct-2025

The brain may not be a muscle, but it still needs exercise

George Mason University

Cognitive training program implemented by George Mason University social work researchers offers promising, non-medicine-based methods to support brain health in older adults.

Journal: Educational Gerontology

16-Oct-2025

Crucial protein enables immune system memory

University of Missouri-Columbia

Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine have recently found that a certain protein may have a large influence on how the immune system functions and 'remembers' past infections.

Journal: Frontiers