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16-Jul-2025

New peer-reviewed study reveals severe health and economic consequences of 2025 Medicaid policy changes

Research published in JAMA Health Forum projects 13-14 excess deaths and over 800 preventable hospitalizations annually per 100,000 people losing Medicaid coverage

Journal: JAMA Health Forum

16-Jul-2025

A gut microbiota metabolite linked to atherosclerosis could revolutionize diagnosis and treatment

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A CNIC-led study has identified imidazole propionate, a metabolite produced by gut bacteria, as a driver of atherosclerosis—a disease that causes artery blockage and can lead to heart attacks and strokes.

Journal: Nature
Funder: European Research Council, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, European Union’s NextGeneration funding mechanism, “la Caixa” Foundation

16-Jul-2025

Projected health system and economic impacts of 2025 Medicaid policy proposals

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: This analysis indicates that proposed Medicaid reforms would have far-reaching consequences beyond federal budget savings, including negative health outcomes, economic losses, and health care system disruptions, with rural and underserved communities disproportionately affected.

Journal: JAMA Health Forum

16-Jul-2025

Study: Transgender Americans fear losing medical care

University of Vermont
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Gender-diverse individuals not only fear losing their access to gender-affirming care but may resort to self-harm or questionable alternatives if it disappears, according to new research from the University of Vermont (UVM) published July 16, 2025 in JAMA Network Open.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

16-Jul-2025

How to more efficiently study complex treatment interactions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

A new experimental design framework could enable scientists to efficiently estimate how combinations of interventions will affect a group of cells, reducing the cost of experiments and providing less biased data that could be used to understand disease mechanisms or develop new treatments.

Funder: Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program at MIT, Apple, National Institutes of Health, Office of Naval Research, DOE/US Department of Energy, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute, Simons Investigator Award

16-Jul-2025

£2.7 million for trial investigating vagus nerve stimulation for drug-resistant epilepsy

University of Liverpool
Grant and Award Announcement

University of Liverpool researchers have begun work on a major £2.7 million National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)-funded trial investigating the long-term effectiveness of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) in people with drug-resistant epilepsy.

Funder: National Institute for Health Research

16-Jul-2025

Avian flu has major economic costs for dairy industry

Cornell University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new paper from a team of Cornell University researchers shows that the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus causes severe mastitis and decreased milk production in dairy cows, a drop-off that may extend beyond the clinical outbreak period.

Journal: Nature Communications