A new study published in JMIR Serious Games by JMIR Publications reveals that playing the open-world video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and watching Studio Ghibli films can significantly improve young people’s overall happiness and sense of purpose in life.

A study explored how coping styles affect the link between mental health providers’ sense of control and their professional well-being. Among 172 clinicians, avoidant coping – like ignoring stress – emerged as a major threat to quality of life. Surprisingly, private practice providers, despite more freedom, reported more avoidance, lower control and poorer outcomes than those in community settings. With up to 85% facing compassion fatigue, the findings underscore the urgent need to reduce harmful coping and strengthen personal control to protect provider health, satisfaction and long-term effectiveness.

Automated insulin delivery (AID) systems such as the UVA Health-developed artificial pancreas could help more type 1 diabetes patients if the devices become fully automated, according to a new review of the technology.

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have unveiled a pioneering ‘microstent’ which could revolutionise treatment for glaucoma, a common but debilitating condition. The study has been published in The Innovation journal, Cell Press.