Medicine & Health

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 21-Jun-2026 07:15 ET (21-Jun-2026 11:15 GMT/UTC)

25-Apr-2026

More children are surviving long enough for heart transplants—but not enough hearts exist

International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
Reports and Proceedings

Advances in pediatric heart care are helping more children survive long enough to receive a transplant—but a critical shortage of donor hearts means too many are still dying while they wait, experts warned today at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) 46th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions.

25-Apr-2026

Experiments in space provide insight into heart failure mechanisms and potential for more robust tissue engineering

International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
Reports and Proceedings

By studying and engineering heart tissue in the unique low-gravity environment of space, the laboratory of Arun Sharma, PhD, is uncovering new ways to protect and repair the failing heart. He addressed the 46th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) today in Toronto.

24-Apr-2026

 

Prof Lim Chwee Teck elected to the US National Academy of Engineering

National University of Singapore College of Design and Engineering
Grant and Award Announcement

Professor Lim Chwee Teck, NUSS Chair Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected an International Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE). This election is one of the highest professional honours accorded to engineers worldwide and recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice, and leadership.

24-Apr-2026

Physician’s medical decisions benefit from AI, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

Stanford Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study showed that chatbots alone outperformed doctors when making nuanced clinical decisions, but when supported by artificial intelligence, doctors performed as well as the chatbots.

Journal

npj Digital Medicine

24-Apr-2026

 

Center for BrainHealth honors Dr. Francis Collins with 2026 Dr. Charles L. Branch BrainHealth Award

Center for BrainHealth
Business Announcement

Connecting researchers across the country, the BrainHealth Network launched in February 2026. The groundbreaking collaborative research initiative seeks to leverage advanced MRI imaging and data analysis from one of the most comprehensive multimodal brain imaging datasets ever assembled in order to understand brain health improvement.

24-Apr-2026

New accelerator targets real world adoption of health innovations

American Heart Association
Business Announcement

The American Heart Association is investing in early-stage health innovators and collegiate entrepreneurs working to build solutions designed for adoption, trust, and measurable impact - 2026 EmPOWERED to Serve Business Accelerator™.

24-Apr-2026

The ISSCR urges continued NIH investment in human embryonic stem cell research to sustain scientific progress and therapeutic innovation

International Society for Stem Cell Research
Business Announcement

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has submitted a formal response to a Request for Information (RFI) issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding its pause on new submissions to the NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell (hESC) Registry and considerations to reduce reliance on hESCs in federally supported research.

24-Apr-2026

 

Anti-vaping advertisements and lung injury news coverage helped reverse trend in teen vaping

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at UC San Diego found that both anti-vaping advertising and widespread news coverage of a 2019 lung-injury outbreak tied to vaping were significantly associated with increased quit attempts among teen vapers and reduced openness to vaping among teens who had never tried it.

Journal

BMC Public Health

24-Apr-2026

Mount Sinai study uses baby teeth and brain imaging to reveal how early-life metal exposures shape brain development and behavior

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report that early-life exposure to common environmental metals may influence brain development and behavioral health more than a decade later. The study, published in Science Advances, is the first to combine naturally shed baby teeth with advanced brain imaging to pinpoint specific weeks during pregnancy and infancy when the developing brain appears most vulnerable to environmental exposures.

Journal

Science Advances