Study finds alcohol consumption by pregnant women in Ireland may be significantly lower than previous reports have suggested, and a large majority of women happy to consent to urine testing for alcohol.

The Ruth Rappaport Foundation has announced Professor Dina Ben Yehuda, former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as the recipient of the 2026 Ruth Rappaport Lifetime Achievement Award for Groundbreaking Women.

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers confirmed that rehabilitation on holidays resulted in higher Activities of Daily Living (ADL) scores at discharge compared to patients receiving rehabilitation only on weekdays, based on data from approximately 78,000 patients with hip fractures.

Researchers at Kumamoto University have discovered that behavioral changes during the COVID-19 pandemic—particularly widespread mask-wearing—may have reduced the risk of certain types of heart attacks triggered by air pollution.

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have developed a score that predicts the risk of liver cancer. The study establishes that the protein MYCN drives liver tumorigenesis, specifically of the type of tumors found in the deadliest subtype of liver cancer. The study characterizes the microenvironment of genes that permit overexpression of MYCN, and describes a machine-learning algorithm that uses this data to predict how likely a tumor-free liver is to develop tumors.

UC Riverside researchers have developed an oxygen-delivering gel capable of healing chronic wounds that might otherwise progress to limb loss.