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UCLA Health launches novel clinical trial for recurrent prostate cancer

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Business Announcement

The Phase 2 trial, called ANDROMEDA, is the first study to directly compare two types of PSMA-targeted radiopharmaceuticals when used alongside stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), a focused form of radiation that treats all detectable tumors.

Americans view opioid overdose as a crisis that needs to be addressed

Weill Cornell Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Approximately 88% of adults view opioid overdose deaths as a very serious problem with high agreement across political groups, according to a national survey conducted by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers. However, political differences over who is responsible will shape the country’s next phase of drug policy.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Health impacts of nursing home staffing

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: This case-control study found that a Medicaid policy that incentivized high nursing home staffing levels was associated with modest improvement in some dimensions of patient health. However, even modest effects are extremely meaningful at scale: these estimates suggest that if a similar reform were adopted nationally, there would be 6,142 fewer hospitalizations each year.

Journal: JAMA Health Forum

Where are the biomarkers in psychiatry? Psychiatrists take first steps towards establishing a structure for objective mental health diagnosis

European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Grant and Award Announcement

Psychiatrists and neuroscientists are taking a major step toward objective mental health diagnosis by launching a central reference database for the classification and communication of mental health biomarker research.

Funder: Wellcome Trust

Model predicts long term mortality risk from prostate cancer

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

University of Michigan researchers have developed a model that can help doctors and patients understand their PSA results and what they mean for patient life expectancy.

Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine

Age-related changes in sperm DNA may play a role in autism risk

Impact Journals LLC
Peer-Reviewed Publication

BUFFALO, NY — January 16, 2026 — A new research paper was published in Volume 17, Issue 12 of Aging-US on December 29, 2025, titled “Age-specific DNA methylation alterations in sperm at imprint control regions may contribute to the risk of autism spectrum disorder in offspring.”

Journal: Aging-US

Ambitious model fails to explain near-death experiences, experts say

University of Virginia Health System
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An ambitious effort to create a paradigm explaning near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people’s brushes with death, top University of Virginia experts argue.

Journal: Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice

From tradition to precision: Atlas of "Food and Medicine Homology" in 2026

Tsinghua University Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A comprehensive perspective article, authored by over 40 experts across China, delineates this trajectory, presenting an integrated roadmap that intertwines standardization, pioneering research, personalized health management, and industrial innovation.

Journal: Food & Medicine Homology

Bat virome evolution in Indochina Peninsula reveals cross-species origins of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus and regional surveillance gaps

SciOpen
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Bats are critical viral reservoirs that harbor viromes with a high risk of cross-species transmission. However, the diversity of their viromes in the Indochina Peninsula remains underexplored. A study on bat viromes across China’s Yunnan, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Cambodia identified 137 viral strains, including 40 new species. Viral richness was highest in Rhinolophidae bats along China’s southwestern border, and Cambodian bat viruses were more evolutionarily distant from known viruses. A porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV)-related virus was discovered in Cambodia, showing 90.36% genome homology with PEDV CV777, and exhibiting recombinant features between Suidae-adapted ORF1ab and Chiroptera-adapted Spike genes, suggesting that bat coronaviruses could be the evolutionary source of PEDV. Bat virome and deep learning models predict cross-species transmission risks, highlighting the need for enhanced One Health surveillance targeting viral recombination hotspots and human-bat interfaces in this ecologically critical region.

Journal: hLife