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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 16-May-2025 19:09 ET (16-May-2025 23:09 GMT/UTC)

Fighting aging by staying compact

Weill Cornell Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The secret to cellular youth may depend on keeping the nucleolus—a condensed structure inside the nucleus of a cell—small, according to Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The findings were elucidated in yeast, a model organism famous for making bread and beer and yet surprisingly similar to humans on the cellular level.

Journal: Nature Aging

New therapy from UI Health offers FDA-approved treatment option for brittle type 1 diabetes

University of Illinois Chicago
Business Announcement

A new therapy for brittle type 1 diabetes, the only treatment currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is available exclusively at UI Health in Chicago.

Most U.S. adults surveyed trust store-bought turkey is free of contaminants, despite research finding fecal bacteria in ground turkey

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Business Announcement

More than six out of 10 U.S. adults who took part in a Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine/Morning Consult survey last week say they wouldn’t eat turkey contaminated with feces, yet consumer research has shown more than half of store-bought packages of ground turkey tested positive for it.

UW-led research links wildfire smoke exposure with increased dementia risk

University of Washington
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research led by the University of Washington found that wildfire smoke is especially hazardous to people's memory health. An analysis of the health care records of 1.2 million Southern California residents found that higher long-term smoke exposure was associated with a significant increase in the odds that a person would be diagnosed with dementia.

Journal: JAMA Neurology
Funder: NIH/National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers identify gene signature for high-risk form of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have discovered the underlying biology that identifies a subset of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who have a higher risk version of the disease and are more likely to relapse despite treatment. The findings allowed researchers to identify new potential therapeutic treatments for patients with this specific form of cancer with a high risk of recurrence

Journal: Nature Cancer
Funder: Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer, Gabriella Miller Kids First, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Hyundai Hope On Wheels, NIH/National Institutes of Health, St. Baldrick’s Foundation, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Harrison Willing Memorial Research Fund, Invisible Prince Foundation, Aiden Everett Davies Innovation Fund, NIH Medical Scientist Training Program, Novartis

Mount Sinai Health System receives 2024 Chime Digital Health Most Wired recognition

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

Award honors health organizations that successfully drive meaningful change through digital transformation

Replacing animal products with plant-based foods leads to 92% reduction in hot flashes in postmenopausal women, finds new study

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Replacing meat and dairy products with plant-based foods, both “healthy” and “unhealthy” as defined by the plant-based index, leads to weight loss and a reduction of hot flashes in postmenopausal women, according to new research by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine published in BMC Women’s Health.

Journal: BMC Women s Health