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9-Oct-2025

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation awards 2025 Outstanding Achievement Prizes to five leading psychiatric researchers

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Grant and Award Announcement

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF), the world’s largest private funder of mental health research grants, announced it is awarding the 2025 Outstanding Achievement Prizes in Mental Health to five scientists for their exceptional contributions to psychiatric research.

9-Oct-2025

Pan-disease atlas maps molecular fingerprints of health, disease and aging

KTH, Royal Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study has mapped the distinct molecular “fingerprints” that 59 diseases leave in an individual’s blood protein – which would enable blood tests to discern troubling signs from those that are more common.

Journal: Science
Funder: Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse, SciLifeLab & Wallenberg Data Driven Life Science Program

9-Oct-2025

Collaborative AI passes U.S. medical exams

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A council of five AI models working together, discussing their answers through an iterative process, achieved 97%, 93%, and 94% accuracy on 325 medical exam questions spanning the three stages of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), according to a new study published October 9^th in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by researcher Yahya Shaikh of Baltimore, USA, and colleagues.

Journal: PLOS Digital Health

9-Oct-2025

New digital therapeutic approach to health literacy can enhance patients’ engagement with educational materials

Carnegie Mellon University

In a new study, researchers developed an automated approach to assess how easily understandable patient educational videos are for individuals looking for information on diabetes. The study’s findings offer insights for content creators and health care organizations on improving users’ engagement with online materials by developing a digital therapeutic approach that uses evidence-based digital health technologies to change behavior persuasively.

Journal: Journal of Medical Internet Research
Funder: NIH/National Library of Medicine

9-Oct-2025

Running with a stroller lowers impact, potential injury risk, researchers find

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Runners who pushed a jogging stroller experience less impact per step, potentially reducing their overall risk for injury, according to a new study led by researchers from Penn State Berks.

Journal: PLOS One

9-Oct-2025

Drop in childhood vaccination coverage: Dutch study identifies trends driven by socioeconomic factors

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Looking at vaccination against measles, mumps and rubella and diphtheria–tetanus–pertussis–poliomyelitis among Dutch children born between 2008─2020, a faster decline in vaccination coverage was observed among e.g. children not attending daycare or from households with lower income.

Journal: Eurosurveillance

9-Oct-2025

Could targeted steroid use offer a universal complimentary treatment to fight TB?

Trinity College Dublin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Given the renewed interest in the steroid dexamethasone, as a host-directed treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trinity College Dublin team - based at St James’s Hospital, Dublin - wanted to understand how steroids selectively affect human macrophages, which are a key cellular player in the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis(Mtb); the bacteria which causes TB. This new study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Journal: Scientific Reports