EurekAlert! News by Subject: Medicine & Health

A prospective multicenter study reports that Woven EndoBridge intrasaccular therapy safely and effectively treats unruptured wide-necked bifurcation aneurysms, one of the most challenging brain aneurysm types to manage. The trial found high occlusion stability, low complication rates, and no retreatments or deaths at one year of follow-up. The findings support this minimally invasive option as a promising alternative to conventional techniques and expand evidence supporting its safe and effective use in a Chinese patient population.

Journal: Chinese Neurosurgical Journal
Funder: Terumo Neuro and Sequent Medical, National Key R&D Program of China, Beijing Scientific and Technologic Project, Project of the Center for Capacity Building and Continuing Education of the National Health Commission

11-Mar-2026

New perspective in magnesium-containing materials for brain repair

Higher Education Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Neurological disorders, including traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, and depression, have emerged as major global health challenges, affecting hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide. Recently, magnesium-containing materials have attracted growing interest in neuroscience research owing to their favorable biocompatibility, biodegradability, and neuroprotective properties.

Journal: Frontiers of Materials Science

11-Mar-2026

Secret to drug addiction relapse found: brain's addiction circuit identified

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Drug addiction carries an extremely high risk of relapse, as cravings can be reignited by minor stimuli even long after one has stopped using. Previously, this phenomenon was attributed to a decline in the function of the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which regulates impulses. However, a joint international research team has recently revealed that the cause of addiction relapse is not a simple decline in brain function, but rather an imbalance in specific neural circuits.

Journal: Neuron
Funder: National Research Foundation of Korea

11-Mar-2026

Low testosterone, high fructose: A recipe for liver disaster

Osaka Metropolitan University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers revealed that reduced levels of testosterone combined with fructose intake led to a synergistic accumulation of fat in the liver. Furthermore, they determined that this fat accumulation is caused by increased pyruvate levels resulting from the activity of gut bacteria.

Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Thomas J. Beatson Jr. Foundation, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International

10-Mar-2026

Integrated PET/MRI radiomic model achieves precise prediction of high-risk carotid plaques

Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a study published in Journal of the American Heart Association, Prof. ZHANG Na's team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the collaborators from Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, by combining [¹⁸F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) and MR-VWI, built an integrated PET/MRI model to identify high-risk carotid plaques.