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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 20-Jun-2025 06:10 ET (20-Jun-2025 10:10 GMT/UTC)

Museum specimens offer new lens on pollution history

University of Texas at Arlington
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study highlights a surprising lens for tracking pollution trends over centuries: preserved plants and animals housed at natural history museums around the world. According to Shane DuBay, a researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington, these specimens contain valuable environmental data that can help scientists reconstruct pollution trends spanning more than 200 years.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Colorectal cancer leaves lasting toll on women’s sexual health

University of British Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new University of British Columbia-led study is shedding light on a long-overlooked consequence of colorectal cancer: the lasting toll it can take on women’s sexual health, even years after treatment ends.

Journal: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Cancers can be detected in the bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years prior to cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at the Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Journal: Cancer Discovery
Funder: National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Fund for Cancer Research, Commonwealth Fund, Thomas M Hohman Memorial Cancer Research Fund, Sol Goldman Sequencing Facility at Johns Hopkins, Conrad R. Hilton Foundation, Benjamin Baker Endowment, Swim Across America, Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists, Conquer Cancer – Fred J. Ansfield, MD, Endowed Young Investigator Award, The V Foundation for Cancer Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Longitudinal outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth physical fitness

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: In this cohort study of schools, a COVID-19–related decline in youth physical fitness was observed. Compared with pre-pandemic and post-pandemic periods, cardiorespiratory fitness and musculoskeletal fitness healthy fitness zone achievement were significantly lower during the pandemic, but the reduction did not appear to be associated with extended remote or hybrid environments.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

UH research challenges conventional theories of how cells detect electrical fields

University of Houston
Grant and Award Announcement

New evidence from the University of Houston suggests that cells are incredibly sensitive to electrical fields, much more so than older scientific theories suggest, challenging assumptions about the limits of cellular electrical sensing and explains how cells detect electric fields with remarkable sensitivity.

New technology developed at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University promises faster, earlier diagnosis of deadly form of heart failure

Temple University Health System
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A novel screening approach developed by physicians at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University shows significant promise for improving the detection of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)—a life-threatening form of heart failure related to high blood pressure in the lung circulation that is often overlooked due to vague symptoms such as fatigue and shortness of breath.

The new research, published online April 5 in the American Heart Journal, shows that the virtual echocardiography screening tool (VEST), when incorporated into the electronic medical record (EMR) system, can generate accurate PAH risk scores—without the need for time-consuming manual calculations. The approach is the first of its kind in the field of pulmonary vascular medicine.

Journal: American Heart Journal

Self-harm in adolescence: young people report on strategies to alleviate mental suffering in a booklet

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The publication, which resulted from a project conducted at the Federal University of São Carlos, is available in Portuguese and English and has the potential to be an important, low-cost therapeutic and educational tool.

Journal: New Trends in Qualitative Research
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

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