A new study led by UC San Francisco has found an alarming rise in invasive breast cancer among Asian American women over the last two decades.    

New research has been published ahead-of-print by The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM). JNM is published by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, an international scientific and medical organization dedicated to advancing nuclear medicine, molecular imaging, and theranostics—precision medicine that allows diagnosis and treatment to be tailored to individual patients in order to achieve the best possible outcomes.

About The Study: The 21st Century Cures Act mandated that patients have immediate access to clinical notes and other health information (i.e., open notes). At a large, integrated health system, open notes engagement increased rapidly following implementation and plateaued at 55% within 2 months, with substantial sociodemographic disparities in engagement. These disparities may be attributed to the digital divide. Language may be another barrier, as notes are not routinely translated despite multilingual portal interfaces.

About The Study: In this study, 15% of King County, Washington children received measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) as their first measles-containing vaccine and varicella-containing vaccine dose, a proportion that remained stable over time. Compared with other children in this analysis, more children who received MMRV were from minoritized racial and ethnic groups; received a catch-up dose; were Vaccines for Children-eligible; and were vaccinated at safety-net clinics. This population might be at risk of not receiving recommended vaccines if options become limited.

A new study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that although the overall number of radiation oncology clinics in the United States has appeared stable in recent years, many individual treatment centers have quietly closed while others have opened. The closures have disproportionately affected rural and freestanding practices, reducing access to lifesaving radiation therapy for patients to receive lifesaving cancer treatment close to home. 

Bradley A. Maron, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Precision Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), has been named editor-in-chief of Circulation, the American Heart Association's flagship peer-reviewed journal and one of the world's leading scientific publications in cardiovascular medicine. In his new role, Dr. Maron will help shape the journal's editorial direction and its ongoing publication of rigorous, practice-changing science for clinicians and researchers worldwide.

Stool‑based microbiome testing is widely used in integrative medicine, but it provides only a distal luminal snapshot, not the full gut ecology. Interpreting taxonomic shifts as “dysbiosis” and aiming to restore an ideal composition oversimplifies biology—healthy individuals vary greatly, and functional redundancy decouples structure from output. This article argues that stool data should serve as a constraint map, not a therapeutic directive. Interventions must match system behaviour, and success should be judged by functional and host‑relevant outcomes, not taxonomic change. Stability is not non‑response, nor is persistence a marker of benefit. Staged interventions act as physiological probes, making response patterns clinically informative.