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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 14-Nov-2025 19:11 ET (15-Nov-2025 00:11 GMT/UTC)

10-Jun-2025

2025 CiteScore rankings confirm JMIR Publications’ expanding impact

JMIR Publications
Grant and Award Announcement

JMIR Publications celebrates its remarkable success in the latest Scopus CiteScore rankings.

10-Jun-2025

FAPESP goes to France to expand international research collaboration

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Meeting Announcement

Researchers affiliated with São Paulo’s universities, research institutions, companies, and science and technology-based startups participate in another edition of FAPESP Week in Toulouse and Paris.

Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

10-Jun-2025

Socioeconomic status linked with brain health, study suggests

University of Edinburgh
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A person’s level of social and economic status can shape their brain heath in later life, a study suggests.

Research led by the University of Edinburgh found a connection between socioeconomic status and changes in the white matter of the brain – a known risk factor of cognitive decline and dementia in older age.

Journal: Molecular Psychiatry

10-Jun-2025

CT colonography beats stool DNA testing for colon cancer screening

Radiological Society of North America
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Compared to stool DNA testing, researchers found that CT colonography is a cost-saving and clinically effective method for colorectal cancer screening, according to a new study.

Journal: Radiology

10-Jun-2025

Johns Hopkins Medicine study finds eating ‘DASH for diabetes’ lower-sodium diet can produce clinically meaningful reduction in blood pressure for people with type 2 diabetes

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new Johns Hopkins Medicine study finds that in adults with type 2 diabetes — most of whom were taking multiple antihypertensive medications — a lower-sodium DASH-style diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) achieved a clinically meaningful reduction in blood pressure, primarily from sodium reduction.

Journal: JAMA Internal Medicine
Funder: Sheikh Khalifa Stroke Institute, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIDDK career development awards, Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

10-Jun-2025

Toward recreating the brain’s immune system in a dish

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School (HMS) led by Wyss Founding Core Faculty member George Church, Ph.D. has devised a solution for creating microglia with strong functional similarities to human microglia from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) within four days, compared to 35 days it takes to obtain similar, yet less fine-tuned cells in a conventional differentiation process.

Journal: Nature Communications

10-Jun-2025

SHEA affirms trust in ACIP and supports science-based vaccine policy

Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
Business Announcement

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) strongly defends the integrity and transparency of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), rejecting claims of conflict of interest and cautioning that efforts to restructure the committee risk undermining evidence-based vaccine policy. SHEA urges HHS to preserve scientific rigor and public trust in its decision-making.