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1-Dec-2025

Study shows quitting smoking completely is best way to protect your health

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, new research from Johns Hopkins Medicine adds to existing evidence that smoking fewer cigarettes does not eliminate cardiovascular disease risk, and quitting entirely is the most effective strategy for improving health.

Journal: PLOS Medicine
Funder: Food and Drug Adminstration, NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

1-Dec-2025

Hormone-disrupting chemicals from plastics shown to promote a chronic inflammatory skin condition

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Johns Hopkins Medicine study involving a dozen people with the inflammatory skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), which mostly affects skin folds, is believed to be the first to provide evidence that hormone-disrupting chemicals commonly found in ultra-processed food and single-use water bottles may contribute to the development of or worsen the condition in some people.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Dermatology’s Ina R. Drew and Howard J. Drew Innovation Fund, Cutaneous Translational Research Program, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Oncology Tissue

1-Dec-2025

Long-term HIV control: Could this combination therapy be the key?

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from UC San Francisco shows it may be possible to control HIV without long-term antiviral treatment — an advance that points the way toward a possible cure for a disease that affects 40 million people around the world.

Journal: Nature
Funder: amfAR, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Cancer Research Institute, amfAR, Intramural Research Program, NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

1-Dec-2025

Researchers identify why some people with HIV achieve remission after antibody treatment

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Study from the Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham, MIT and Harvard has found a property of a specific kind of immune cell that may explain why some people can keep HIV in check

Insight could be harnessed to eliminate the need for daily antiviral medications

Journal: Nature
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Lundbeck Foundation

30-Nov-2025

Public health practitioners combine proven interventions to tackle complex health challenges using new framework

Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Vast resources have gone into developing and testing medical and public health interventions so they can be used confidently as evidence-based practices. Yet many interventions are deployed in isolation—even when the people they aim to help often face multiple, overlapping health challenges. A new study led by researchers at Columbia School of Public Health introduces an innovative method designed to increase the use and impact of evidence-based practices by combining them into stronger, multi-component programs.

Journal: Annals of Epidemiology
Funder: NIH/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism