Eric and Wendy Schmidt announced today Schmidt Global Health, a nonprofit aimed at improving public health by strengthening the systems and advancing the technology used to monitor, identify and respond to emerging disease threats worldwide. 

Wendy Schmidt will address the World Health Summit in Berlin and a livestream audience online at 11 a.m. CEST on Tuesday, Oct. 13 to discuss the organization’s work.

BUFFALO, NY — October 8, 2026 — A new commentary was published in Volume 18 of Aging on September 12, 2026, titled “Complexity, variability, and the behavioral layer of gerophysics: a commentary on Unfried et al. (2026).”

Vaccine-hesitant adults were more likely to consider getting a COVID-19 vaccine when public health messages acknowledged distrust of government and affirmed values such as personal liberty, a new study found.

Hyponatremia is associated with antipsychotic treatment, but risks may differ between individual medications. Now, researchers analyzed US FDA safety reports and a Japanese claims database involving 55,394 patients. The study found that aripiprazole was associated with a significantly lower risk of hyponatremia than olanzapine, with an adjusted hazard ratio of 0.52. Other antipsychotics showed no significant differences after adjustment. These findings may help inform antipsychotic selection for patients at a higher risk of hyponatremia.

An ultrasound-responsive micronanorobot combines a collagenase-secreting bacterium, bismuth ferrite nanoparticles, the drug DM4 and a targeting ligand to treat nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer. After intravesical delivery, it degrades tumor matrix, enhances drug penetration, and ultrasound triggers reactive oxygen species, achieving 90.8% cell death in vitro and 82.4% tumor inhibition in mice. The system also promotes antitumor immunity, increasing CD8+ T-cell infiltration and shifting macrophages toward the M1 phenotype.

A new study that investigates the genetics of people and malaria parasites has found that people with the sickle cell variant of hemoglobin are almost exclusively infected by a distinct variety of malaria parasites, which might contribute to the much lower rates of disease in this population.