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Medicine & Health

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 17-Jun-2026 09:15 ET (17-Jun-2026 13:15 GMT/UTC)

31-Mar-2026

Placing fruit and veg near store entrances can improve sales and diet quality

City St George’s, University of London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Placing fruit and vegetable sections near supermarket entrances increases the amount purchased and may improve the quality of women’s diets, according to a new study funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

Journal: PLOS Medicine
Funder: National Institute for Health Research

31-Mar-2026

Chemical compound clears cellular waste, protects neurons in model of frontotemporal dementia

WashU Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis adds to growing evidence that helping brain cells break down and eliminate their own cellular waste is a promising treatment strategy for a variety of neurodegenerative diseases. In lab experiments, the researchers found that exposure to a novel compound can clear a harmful protein from human neurons modeling frontotemporal dementia — a devastating and ultimately fatal condition — and prevent those neurons from dying.

Journal: Nature Communications

31-Mar-2026

Living in food deserts may affect complications after breast reconstruction

Wolters Kluwer Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For patients undergoing breast reconstruction, residing in a food desert may be associated with an increased risk of certain complications after surgery, reports a study in the April issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

Journal: Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

31-Mar-2026

Dartmouth Cancer Center names internationally renowned cancer research pioneer Roy Herbst, MD, Ph.D., as its next leader

Dartmouth Health
Business Announcement

Dartmouth Cancer Center (DCC) has appointed Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, as the center’s sixth director. Herbst will lead integrated efforts to help strengthen cancer research, education, and collaboration across Dartmouth and Dartmouth Health, expand access to advanced treatments and clinical trials, and continue to elevate cancer care in southern New Hampshire, throughout New England, and beyond.

31-Mar-2026

Researchers identify the keys to preventing hospitalizations during nursing home flu outbreaks

Brown University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by researchers from Brown’s School of Public Health could inform real-world outbreak management and clarify key guidelines for nursing home staff and clinicians.

Journal: JAMA Internal Medicine

31-Mar-2026

Plastic additives tied to millions of preterm births worldwide

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Exposure to a chemical commonly used to make plastic more flexible may have contributed to about 1.97 million preterm births in 2018 alone, or more than 8 percent of the world’s total, a new analysis of population surveys shows. The chemical was also linked to the deaths of 74,000 newborns, the researchers further estimate.

Journal: EBioMedicine
Funder: Beyond Petrochemicals

31-Mar-2026

Single nutrient fuels cancer-fighting power of T cells

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have discovered how the immune system’s CD8+ T cells use the nutrient cysteine to control two essential functions that compete for this resource — the immune cell’s ability to multiply and its ability to kill cancer cells.

Journal: Cell
Funder: Van Andel Institute Metabolism & Nutrition, Pathway-to-Independence Award, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group Distinguished Investigator Program, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship

31-Mar-2026

Is longevity science stuck? Researchers call for a strategic reset

Mitochondria-Microbiota Task Force
Meeting Announcement

After decades of progress, longevity science may be facing a paradox: more knowledge, but limited impact. Some researchers now suggest the field may have failed not because of insufficient data, but because of flawed strategy.

31-Mar-2026

Markers of lymphoma cancer relapse identified

University of Missouri-Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine may have found a way to identify the patients at risk of recurrence for follicular lymphoma cancer without the need for imaging and surveillance testing by screening patients for several diffferent biomarkers.

Journal: American Journal of Clinical Oncology