Medicine & Health

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30-Jun-2025

How the brain supports social processing as people age

Society for Neuroscience
Peer-Reviewed Publication

With age comes cognitive decline, but a neural pathway for mental health and emotional resilience may adapt over time to help process faces that are difficult to read.

Journal

JNeurosci

Funder

Kavli Foundation and Research Council of Norway

30-Jun-2025

Low-intensity brain stimulation may restore neuron health in Alzheimer's disease

SPIE--International Society for Optics and Photonics
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that significantly impairs memory and cognitive functions. To date, there is no cure for AD. Recently, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has shown potential for the treatment of AD. However, individual responses to rTMS vary, and its underlying mechanisms are not clearly understood. In a recent study, researchers explored the effects of rTMS on neural cells in mouse models of AD, revealing a potential new treatment strategy.

Journal

Neurophotonics

30-Jun-2025

Tens of thousands of heart attacks and strokes could be avoided each year if cholesterol-lowering drugs were used according to guidelines

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers has identified a significant gap between the number of U.S. patients for whom cholesterol-lowering drugs such as statins are recommended and the actual number of patients who take them. 

30-Jun-2025

Hospital Internacional de Colombia becomes first in Colombia and South America to join Mayo Clinic Care Network

Mayo Clinic
Business Announcement

Hospital Internacional de Colombia (HIC) and Mayo Clinic announced that HIC in Bucaramanga has joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network. HIC is the first hospital in Colombia and in South America to join the network, a group of carefully vetted health care organizations with special access to Mayo Clinic's knowledge and expertise.

30-Jun-2025

Rice bioengineer looks to mitochondria as key to heart failure recovery

Rice University
Grant and Award Announcement

Rice bioengineer Mario Escobar has won a Transformational Project Award from the American Heart Association to develop a new therapy for heart failure.

Funder

American Heart Association

30-Jun-2025

Where there’s fire, there’s smoke

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new online platform, SMRT-Flames, can identify areas in need of land management in order to reduce future smoke exposures from uncontrolled fires. While most wildfire tools predict fire risk, SMRT-Flames explicitly considers smoke exposure across populations

Journal

Environmental Science & Technology

30-Jun-2025

Landmark study investigates potential of Ambroxol, a cough medicine, to slow Parkinson’s-related dementia

Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph’s Health Care London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Lawson Research Institute (Lawson), the research arm of St. Joseph’s Health Care London, are investigating whether Ambroxol - a cough medicine used safely for decades in Europe - can slow dementia in people with Parkinson’s disease. A new paper suggests Ambroxol can improve memory and psychiatric symptoms for people with Parkinson's disease.

Journal

JAMA Neurology

Funder

Weston Family Foundation