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Brain imaging reveals migraine headache subtypes, Stanford Medicine researchers find

Stanford Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Functional MRI method for classifying migraine headaches could lead to better individualized treatment.

Journal: Cephalalgia

Cash transfers in the perinatal period and investigations of infant maltreatment

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: In this study, the Rx Kids prenatal and infant cash prescription program was associated with a significant reduction in investigated allegations of maltreatment among infants. These findings provide important evidence about the role of economic stability in preventing child welfare system involvement.

Journal: JAMA Pediatrics

Lithium may help curb impulsive decisions tied to suicide risk, study finds

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study finds that brain electrical activity tied to impulsive decision-making — a key contributor to suicide risk — changes after lithium treatment in people who have survived a life-threatening suicide attempt. The findings from Texas A&M University and Baylor College of Medicine were published in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Journal: Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

AI language models struggle with basic hospital data tasks, study finds

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study finds that large language models (LLMs), used with straightforward prompting, perform poorly on routine number-crunching tasks that hospital administrators depend on every day to track patients and allocate resources. The findings were published this week in the open-access journal PLOS Digital Health by Eyal Klang of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA, and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS Digital Health

Wildfire smoke risks understudied, review paper warns

University of California - Riverside
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A review paper by scientists at the University of California, Riverside argues that the health risks of wildfire smoke, while widely acknowledged, remain poorly understood at a biological level, and calls for a major shift in research priorities.

Journal: Frontiers in Public Health

TCT 2026 Master Operator Award to be presented to Rebecca T. Hahn, MD

Cardiovascular Research Foundation
Grant and Award Announcement

The TCT Geoffrey O. Hartzler Master Operator Award will be presented to Rebecca T. Hahn, MD, during Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), the annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). TCT will take place October 31 – November 3, 2026, in San Diego, California. The award is given each year to a physician who has advanced the field of interventional cardiovascular medicine through technical excellence and leadership. Dr. Hahn is the first imager ever to receive this distinction — a testament to how profoundly she has advanced the role of imaging in cardiovascular care.

Meeting: TCT 2026: Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics

Postpartum diabetes care falls short as many women skip essential A1C testing

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

Few women with postpartum-onset diabetes meet recommended A1C monitoring guidelines, highlighting a need to improve routine diabetes care—particularly among Black women—according to new research at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Journal: The BMJ

National study seeks to improve sleep in the ICU

University of California - San Diego
Business Announcement

UC San Diego Health to be clinical coordinating center for multi-site clinical research study aimed at improving sleep and reducing delirium among adults receiving care in the ICU.

Funder: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

New Nature Scientific Reports study challenges the inevitability of cognitive decline and proves brain gain is possible at any age

Center for BrainHealth
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A three-year longitudinal study of ~4,000 adults reveals there’s no ceiling for brain health improvement through proactive engagement and self-agency. Published in the Nature Portfolio, the landmark study uses a first-of-its-kind multidimensional metric, the BrainHealth Index (BHI), to show cognitive decline is not inevitable in aging.

Journal: Scientific Reports