A new, cross-sectional study found that emergency department doctors and patients agree on the urgency level only about 38 percent to 57 percent of the time. The research, by Benjamin Ukert with the Texas A&M University School of Public Health and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of South Carolina, was published in the journal of the American Medical Association.

The NYC Preparedness & Recovery Institute (PRI) is reflecting on the city’s response to the COVID-19 public health emergency and pandemic.A newly published article, COVID-19, Five Years Later: What We’re Learning About NYC’s Societal Response to Emergencies, outlines interim insights from PRI’s ongoing COVID-19 Review, which draws from hundreds of reports, interviews, and community discussions to assess the city’s response and identify strategies to strengthen emergency preparedness moving forward.

For women in their 80s, experiencing increasing sleepiness during the day over a five-year period is associated with double the risk of developing dementia during that time, according to a study published on March 19, 2025, online in Neurology^®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study does not prove that daytime sleepiness causes dementia; it only shows an association.

A study in Neurology, led by Yue Leng, PhD, and Sasha Milton, followed the sleep patterns of 733 older female participants to see if specific patterns of change were associated with a higher risk of dementia. The participants, whose average age was 83, were monitored by wrist devices that track movement and time spent asleep. They had normal cognition at the start of the study.

The Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals and the American Society for Clinical Investigation have awarded Dr. Owen Witte(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) with the twelfth annual Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine. 

Three decades of landmark research into type 2 diabetes prevention abruptly ended this month due to government funding cuts.