The development of new antibiotics could be sped up thanks to a new tool that tests the reliability of AI.

The Mount Sinai Health System today announced that the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center has received the 2026 Community Health Improvement Award from the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS). The award recognizes the Center's longstanding leadership in advancing adolescent health, health equity, and access to comprehensive care for young people throughout New York City.

Obesity affected nearly a third of adults in England in 2025, new research suggests. The study by researchers from the University of Cambridge, the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre at Health Data Research UK and The George Institute for Global Health also revealed the most disadvantaged groups are bearing a disproportionate burden of the obesity crisis, and this gap has widened in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 A study of more than 60 countries shows those with faster declines in the social acceptability of intimate partner violence against women also tend to have had faster reductions in rates of such violence, as well as faster human development improvements. Irina Vartanova of the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Global Health.