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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 26-Jul-2025 20:11 ET (27-Jul-2025 00:11 GMT/UTC)

Government of Guyana, Mount Sinai Health System and Hess Corporation announce five-year extension of national healthcare initiative.

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Business Announcement

Initiative aims to transform Guyana’s public health system by 2030 with world-class healthcare services accessible to all citizens, especially vulnerable communities

Open-label placebo appears to reduce premenstrual symptoms, study suggests

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Women affected by premenstrual syndrome (PMS) appear to experience less intense and debilitating symptoms after taking placebo pills even when told they do not contain any active medication, suggests a study published in the open-access journal BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine.

Journal: BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation

New mums advised to do two hours of moderate to vigorous exercise a week

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New mums should be strongly encouraged to begin clocking up at least two hours of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity such as brisk walking and muscle strengthening exercises each week in the first three months after birth, when physically able, to improve health and well-being, say experts in a new guideline published by the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Journal: British Journal of Sports Medicine
Funder: The Christenson Professor in Active Healthy Living Research Stipend

Milk as Medicine: New Study Shows Breast Milk Transforms Challenges into Triumphs

University of Oklahoma
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In 2010, University of Oklahoma researcher David Fields, Ph.D., was pouring over research data when he discovered something he thought was odd: His data showed that at 6 months of age, formula-fed babies born of mothers who were categorized as medically obese weighed about 5% units less fat than breastfed babies in the same dataset. That discovery struck him as unusual and led him on a research journey to better understand breast milk. Now, he’s studying the connections between maternal gestational diabetes, breastfeeding and infant health.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Association

OU researcher leverages technology for alcohol disorder interventions in primary care

University of Oklahoma
Business Announcement

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 7 adults in the United States will experience a substance use disorder during their lifetime. University of Oklahoma College of Medicine faculty member Brandi Fink, Ph.D., is working with primary care clinics and health care systems to identify people with an alcohol use disorder and intervene early before the problem worsens.

Special issue of Academic Emergency Medicine explores the science of errors in emergency care

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), the peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), has published its March issue dedicated to the topic of errors in emergency care, with a strong emphasis on diagnostic error. This special issue, supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), brings together leading scholars and clinicians to discuss aspects of errors relevant to emergency care and propose actionable solutions.

Journal: Academic Emergency Medicine

CU Cancer Center researchers identify the ‘switch’ that allows intestinal cells to regenerate after injury

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the University of Colorado Cancer Center have solved a cellular mystery that may lead to better therapies for colorectal and other types of cancer.

Peter Dempsey, PhD, professor of pediatrics–developmental biology in the CU School of Medicine, and Justin Brumbaugh, PhD, assistant professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at CU Boulder, recently published a paper in the journal Nature Cell Biology showing the importance of the H3K36 methylation process in regulating plasticity and regeneration in intestinal cells.

Journal: Nature Cell Biology