A new study from UCLA Health shows that the 2021 expanded Child Tax Credit helped prevent energy insecurity among middle-class families with children but provided no measurable benefit to the lowest-income households.

The Cuyahoga County Healthcare Sector Partnership, in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals, is launching the Nursing Clinical Adjunct Faculty Initiative — an innovative program aimed at expanding the region’s nursing education capacity and addressing the national nursing educator shortage.

Nearly one-third of people who adopted and adhered to a healthy diet did not lose any weight, but still reaped many health benefits, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Ben Gurion University, Israel. Independent of weight reduction, study participants showed significant improvements in cardiometabolic markers, including higher HDL cholesterol (the healthy type of cholesterol), lower levels of leptin (the hormone that signals hunger), and less visceral fat (belly fat found deep inside the abdominal cavity, sometimes wrapping around organs).

In a study published in EMBO Molecular Medicine, researchers created a model of XMEA, a rare inherited disease, and show that their mutant zebrafish have weakened muscles and other symptoms that mirror human XMEA disease. This simple model was used to test 30 clinically tested drugs and identify two that significantly improved XMEA symptoms in the zebrafish. The researchers are now studying the VMA21 mutation in a mammalian model, the mouse, to further push research toward a possible clinical treatment.