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Medicine & Health

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 26-Dec-2025 23:11 ET (27-Dec-2025 04:11 GMT/UTC)

30-Sep-2025

Feeling in control helps beat daily stress, researchers find

People may be more likely to resolve a problem if they feel they have more control over it, according to a new study from a team including researchers at Penn State. They also found that the relationship strengthens with age.

Journal: Communications Psychology
Funder: National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

30-Sep-2025

Single-step battery cathode recycling

University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new battery recycling method developed by Illinois Grainger engineers removes scarce, expensive metals from old battery cathodes and coats them onto new cathodes in a single step. The result is significantly more affordable, less environmentally impactful and less risky to health than any recycling method currently in use.

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials

30-Sep-2025

Precision without incision: the new era of functional radiosurgery

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Reports and Proceedings

Research findings from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, are being presented this week at ASTRO 2025 – the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s annual meeting in San Francisco.

Meeting: American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 2025Annual Meeting

30-Sep-2025

CU Anschutz School of Medicine researchers identify new method for treating alcohol use disorder

University of Colorado School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Joseph Schacht, PhD, and Drew Winters, PhD, of the CU Anschutz Department of Psychiatry, found that the drug tolcapone could treat alchol use disorder by increasing behavioral control through increased activation of the prefrontal cortex.

Journal: Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

30-Sep-2025

New study led by OHIO researcher reveals surprising attitudes among Ohio primary care providers toward diabetes vs. opioid use disorder treatment

Ohio University
Reports and Proceedings

A recent study published in JAMA Network Open, titled “Hospital Decision-Making and Adoption of Health-Related Social Needs Programs in US Hospitals,” reveals surprising insights into how primary care providers in Ohio perceive and treat opioid use disorder (OUD) differently from other chronic conditions, such as type 2 diabetes.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

30-Sep-2025

Can digital health tools help younger cancer survivors better predict future health risks?

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Grant and Award Announcement

A groundbreaking new study from the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology aims to test whether digital tools and chatbot technology can help young adult cancer survivors get the genetic counseling they need to better understand future health risks to themselves and family members.

30-Sep-2025

New AI tool scans social media for hidden health risks

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new artificial intelligence tool can scan social media data to discover adverse events associated with consumer health products, according to a study published September 30^th in the open-access journal PLOS Digital Health by John Ayers of the University of California, San Diego, U.S., and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS Digital Health