With food prices on the rise, dollar stores have played an increasingly important role in food retail, especially for low-income Americans and those living in areas with limited access to healthy foods. Wenhui Feng, an assistant professor of public health in the University of Rhode Island College of Health Sciences, is leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers on a three-year study of the impact dollar stores have on food purchases. The study is funded by a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

BUFFALO, NY — August 31, 2026 — A new research paper was published in Volume 18 of Aging on August 11, 2026, titled “TMAO is associated with higher age, cardiometabolic risk factors and degenerative alterations of the brain in healthy elderly adults.”

JMIR Publications, a leading independent fully open-access digital health research publisher, has renewed their Flat-Fee Unlimited Open Access Publishing Agreement with six UK partner universities through Jisc.

Americans’ confidence in their own healthcare providers remains high, according to a longitudinal, nationally representative survey conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center from April 2021 to August 2026. In contrast, confidence in the CDC, FDA, and the NIH as sources of trustworthy public health information has declined significantly since the beginning of President Donald J. Trump’s second term and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s confirmation as Health and Human Services Secretary overseeing these agencies.

Researchers at UC San Diego have been awarded a DARPA contract to redesign red blood cells to temporarily boost human performance.