A new study from the NYU Silver School of Social Work suggests that broader social factors, such as racial inequality and experience with police violence, might be at work in the proportionately higher rates of psychosis seen among marginalized young adults.

Singing to your infant can significantly boost the baby’s mood, according to a recent Yale study published May 28 in Child Development.

Around the world and across cultures, singing to babies seems to come instinctively to caregivers. Now, new findings support that singing is an easy, safe, and free way to help improve the mental well-being of infants. Because improved mood in infancy is associated with a greater quality of life for both parents and babies, this in turn has benefits for the health of the entire family, the researchers say. The study also helps explain why musical behaviors may have evolved in parents.

The BREAKWATER open-label, randomized phase 3 study was designed to evaluate first-line treatment with targeted therapies encorafenib and cetuximab plus a mFOLFOX6 chemotherapy regimen compared to standard therapy in patients with previously untreated BRAF V600E-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer.

Results from second interim analysis, presented at the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting, show that the investigational combination doubled overall survival compared with standard-of-care (30.3 months versus 15.1 months). It also reduced the risk of death by half in patients who received the new combination.

New research has been published ahead-of-print by The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM). JNM is published by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, an international scientific and medical organization dedicated to advancing nuclear medicine, molecular imaging, and theranostics—precision medicine that allows diagnosis and treatment to be tailored to individual patients in order to achieve the best possible outcomes.