Letters to patients from ophthalmology services—-the highest volume outpatient specialty in UK healthcare—include too much complex language and medical terminology which patients are likely to find hard to understand, reveals an analysis of more than 4 million letters from one large hospital trust, published in the open access journal BMJ Health & Care Informatics.

 

New research by UCLA Health found GLP-1 medications may reduce the risk of serious fractures for adults with type 2 diabetes.

Sleep may matter more than screen time, exercise or diet for young people to succeed in school and maintain healthy friendships.

UNC School of Social Work received a $464,290 NCDHHS contract to expand Mental Health First Aid suicide prevention training across North Carolina colleges and universities. The project will train at least 600 students, faculty, staff and NCDHHS employees to recognize and respond to mental health crises, strengthening the state’s mental health support system.

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom — Modern medicine has become increasingly focused on preventing disease and extending healthy life, but a new paper claims that the next major leap in healthcare will require something more fundamental: ensuring that both medical care and scientific knowledge are accessible to everyone.

USC researchers have received a five-year NIH grant of up to $3.2 million to investigate how the hormone thymulin regulates age-related inflammation, or inflammaging, and whether it can improve responses to cancer immunotherapy. Building on earlier findings that thymulin helps suppress chronic inflammation and may enhance treatment effectiveness in older mice, the team will study its molecular mechanisms and therapeutic potential in aged mouse models of breast cancer and melanoma, as well as in human cells. The project aims to clarify how aging alters the immune system and to identify new strategies that could help older patients respond better to immunotherapy and potentially combat metastatic cancer.

Bonds with others and social recognition at the family, school and community levels were related to reduced suicide risk among Pennsylvania teens, according to a new study by Penn State researchers.

Dr. Aaron Schimmer officially steps into his role as President and Scientific Director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) today, marking a new chapter for cancer research in the province.

Schimmer brings a wealth of scientific, clinical, strategic and operational expertise to lead OICR. An internationally recognized hematologist, blood cancer scientist and research leader, he most recently served as Director of Research at University Health Network’s (UHN) Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, where he is also a longtime clinician-scientist.

As President and Scientific Director of OICR, Schimmer will lead the Institute and deliver on OICR’s provincial mandate to accelerate cancer research in Ontario for better health and a stronger economy.

In a cohort of nearly 3,000 boys followed from birth into childhood, young boys who were circumcised just after birth did not have a higher risk of autism, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.