A major Spanish trial, in which the University of Navarra participates, finds that a calorie-reduced Mediterranean diet combined with moderate exercise lowers type 2 diabetes risk by 31%. The PREDIMED-Plus study, involving nearly 5,000 older adults with overweight or obesity, shows that modest lifestyle changes deliver powerful prevention benefits—supporting a scalable, sustainable strategy to combat the global diabetes epidemic.

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine developed a new and highly effective application of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to quickly scan notes in electronic medical records and identify high-risk patients who may have been infected with H5N1 avian influenza or “bird flu”, according to new findings published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.