In April 2025, the internationally renowned academic journal The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) (Impact Factor: 63.5) published online a study titled “Non-Risk-Based Lung Cancer Screening With Low-Dose Computed Tomography”, led by Professors Jianxing He and Wenhua Liang from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University and the National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease. 

This research, focusing on lung cancer screening strategies, revealed that the non-risk-based (universal) screening approach - unrestricted by traditional high-risk criteria - achieved a comparable detection rate of lung cancer among individuals not classified as high-risk relative to those who were. The findings underscore the necessity of evaluating the effectiveness of lung cancer screening in non-high-risk populations and developing biomarker-based enrichment strategies to refine pre-screening selection in this subgroup.

Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 356,000 global deaths from heart disease in 2018 alone, a new analysis of population surveys shows. While the chemicals, called phthalates, are in widespread use globally, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific bore a much larger share of the death toll than others — about three-fourths of the total.

An automated machine learning program developed by researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in conjunction with the University of Manitoba has been able to identify potential cardiovascular incidents or fall and fracture risks based on bone density scans taken during routine clinical testing.