Rising leukemia rates in Florida linked to aging population, new treatment guidelines for follicular lymphoma, a new study that may help unlock immunotherapy for glioblastoma, and more are in this month’s tip sheet from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Dague and her colleagues identified several trends. The most striking is the tendency of former inmates to forsake medication for a chronic condition even with costs covered by Medicaid, the federal-state insurance program for low-income people. The researchers found this trend particularly striking because other studies have shown that Medicaid increases access to healthcare for people who were previously incarcerated. The new study suggests insurance alone may not be enough.

Today, the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) and The Obesity Society (TOS) sent a letter to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), along with more than 20 leading organizations and providers across the healthcare continuum, urging the agency to enforce federal regulations around compounding following the recent resolution of GLP-1 medicine shortages. Among the signatories include: the Alliance for Women’s Health & Prevention, the Association of Black Cardiologists, the National Hispanic Medical Association and the National Consumers League.

New research has been published ahead-of-print by The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM). JNM is published by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, an international scientific and medical organization dedicated to advancing nuclear medicine, molecular imaging, and theranostics—precision medicine that allows diagnosis and treatment to be tailored to individual patients in order to achieve the best possible outcomes.

As of early 2025, tuberculosis cases are increasing in the U.S. This disease, often shortened to TB, causes significant lung damage and, if not treated, is almost always lethal. World TB Day on March 24 raises awareness about the disease and commemorates Robert Koch’s discovery of the source bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. More than a century later, scientists continue refining TB diagnosis methods and treatment strategies, some of which are in these four ACS journal articles.

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage invaders — by seizing genetic material from weakened, dormant phages and using it to “vaccinate” themselves to elicit an immune response.

A new study led by a University of New Mexico Health Sciences researcher demonstrates that a “concierge” approach called the Kidney Transplant Fast Track (KTFT), in which the testing is coordinated and often performed onsite by the transplant center, enables more people to receive transplants and erases troubling racial and ethnic  disparities.