The project will strengthen substance use prevention among more than 3,000 South Florida youth. “Rising Strong” will apply trauma-informed, evidence-based strategies to support vulnerable populations, including youth facing housing instability, aging out of foster care, living in rural areas, or recovering from human trafficking. As social, economic, and mental health stressors intensify, this effort aims to offer healthier coping alternatives. By prioritizing behavioral health and resilience, the program seeks to empower a new generation toward substance-free futures.

A research paper by scientists at Capital Medical University validates the necessity of integrating cognitive–motor strategies for the motor rehabilitation of PD and identifies novel neural markers for assessing treatment efficacy.

The new research paper, published on Jun. 19, 2025 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, presented neuroplasticity driven by attentional network activation and the dynamic reallocation of attentional resources are the core mechanisms by which short-term MIRT facilitates compensatory motor function and the necessity of developing intervention strategies that integrate cognitive–motor dual regulation.

Growth charts for children with rare genetic disorders - giving healthcare professionals and families clearer guidance on how a child is developing - have been created by an international team, led by the University of Bristol.

Researchers have improved the ability of wearable health devices to accurately detect when a patient is coughing, making it easier to monitor chronic health conditions and predict health risks such as asthma attacks. The advance is significant because cough-detection technologies have historically struggled to distinguish the sound of coughing from the sound of speech and nonverbal human noises.

Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a rare premature aging disease, and approximately 90% of cases are caused by progerin. Progerin is toxic and causes diverse abnormalities. More and more studies show that progerin is also detected in physiological aging and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Thus, targeting progerin clearance shows powerful potential for the treatment of HGPS, CKD and aging-related diseases. Now, Zhang group from Peking University and Kunming University of Science and Technology, reports that activating lysosome biogenesis can promote progerin clearance and alleviate cellular senescence in HGPS. They identify lysosome defects as a prevalent feature in HGPS, which impairs progerin clearance, and reveal that activating lysosome biogenesis can counteract lysosome defects and accelerate progerin clearance and mitigate DNA damage, cell cycle arrest, low proliferation ability and senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) in HGPS cells. The findings highlight the vital role of lysosomes in progerin clearance, and uncover the potential of targeting lysosome biogenesis in anti-senescence.