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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 13-May-2025 14:09 ET (13-May-2025 18:09 GMT/UTC)

Oral microbiome varies with life stress and mental health symptoms in pregnant women

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The number and type of microbes present in the saliva of pregnant women differ according to whether they are experiencing life stress and symptoms of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), finds a study published in the open access journal BMJ Mental Health.

Journal: BMJ Mental Health
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Michigan State University College of Social Science Faculty Initiative Fund

New AEM study highlights feasibility of cranial accelerometry device for prehospital detection of large-vessel occlusion stroke

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study exploring the use of cranial accelerometry (CA) headsets for the prehospital detection of large-vessel occlusion (LVO) strokes has been published in a recent issue of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), the peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM).

Journal: Academic Emergency Medicine

Texas A&M researchers uncover secrets of horse genetics for conservation, breeding

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) are helping uncover new information about the Y chromosome in horses, which will help owners identify optimal lineages for breeding and help conservationists preserve breed diversity.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Research Spotlight: Gastroenterology education improved through inpatient care teaching model

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Ryan Flanagan, MD, MPH, of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the lead author of a paper published in Gastroenterology, “The Educational Impact of the GI Hospitalist Model on Gastroenterology Fellowship Training.”

Journal: Gastroenterology

UVA study uncovers key heart responses to viral infection

University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New insights could change the game for treating viral heart infections and preventing heart failure.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Packard Fellowship

New research could pave way for vaccine against deadly wildlife disease

Michigan State University
Grant and Award Announcement

When Sean Crosson was a child growing up in rural Texas, he learned about vaccinating cattle against Bang’s disease from his high school agriculture teacher. The disease’s name amused him at the time.

Now, Crosson, a Professor Rudolph Hugh Endowed Chair in Michigan State University’s Department of Microbiology, Genetics and Immunology, has been awarded a $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study the cause of that very disease, Brucella abortus.

Changing the definition of cerebral palsy

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Defining cerebral palsy only as a childhood condition fails to acknowledge the many adults living with the disease

Journal: New England Journal of Medicine