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2-Jul-2025

Perceived social status tied to cardiovascular risks in women but not in men

McGill University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Women who see themselves as having lower social status are more likely than other people to show early signs of heart stress linked to future disease risk, according to a new study led by researchers at McGill and Concordia universities.

Journal: Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine
Funder: Courtois Cardiovascular Biorepository Program

2-Jul-2025

Unprocessed red meat has no notable effect on obesity and related diseases

Texas Tech University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Texas Tech researchers’ rigorous analysis of available data challenges longstanding public health assumptions about the risks of consuming unprocessed beef.

Journal: Obesity

2-Jul-2025

Financing innovation: proposal for novel adaptive platform trial fund offers new model for ALS drug development

MIT Sloan School of Management
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have introduced a new approach to funding clinical trials for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) therapies. The study “Financing Drug Development via Adaptive Platform Trials,” published today in PLOS One, outlines a financing model that merges the efficiencies of adaptive platform trials — lower costs and shorter durations — with an innovative royalty-based investment structure designed to accelerate therapeutic development for ALS and other serious diseases.

Journal: PLOS One

2-Jul-2025

Preclinical study unlocks a mystery of rapid mouth healing

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Your mouth is a magician. Bite the inside of your cheek, and the wound may vanish without a trace in a couple of days. A preclinical study co-led by Cedars-Sinai, Stanford Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has discovered one secret of this disappearing act. The findings, if confirmed in humans, could one day lead to treatments that enable rapid, scarless recovery from skin wounds on other parts of the body.

Journal: Science Translational Medicine

2-Jul-2025

Air pollution is linked to adverse birth outcomes in India

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Prenatal exposure to ambient fine particulate matter and climatic factors, such as temperature and rainfall, are associated with adverse birth outcomes in India, according to a study published July 2nd, 2025, in the open-access journal PLOS Global Public Health by Mary Abed Al Ahad from the University of St Andrews, U.K.

Journal: PLOS Global Public Health

2-Jul-2025

Using viral load tests to help predict mpox severity when skin lesions first appear

Nagoya University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In August 2024, the World Health Organization declared a second “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” for mpox. The current outbreak in Africa is driven mainly by the clade I variant, with multiple countries reporting their first-ever mpox cases of this more severe strain. Nagoya University researchers and their collaborators have found that measuring the amount of virus in the blood when skin lesions first appear can help predict whether patients will experience mild or severe progression of the disease. The study analyzes viral loads during early infection to predict how sick patients will get, potentially improving treatment strategies for future outbreaks.

Journal: Science Translational Medicine
Funder: Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan Science and Technology Agency

2-Jul-2025

Individual merit, not solidarity, prioritized by early childhood education policies

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Do we climb the social ladder alone or with help from our communities? Early childhood education (ECE) policies are betting on the former, according to a study published July 2, 2025, in the open-access journal PLOS One by Katarzyna Bobrowicz from the University of Luxembourg and University of Liège in Belgium, and colleagues. A 53-country survey of global ECE policies indicates favoritism of competition over cooperation, individualism over solidarity and talent over luck.

Journal: PLOS One