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22-Jul-2025

43% of drug-caused deaths by healthcare workers used hospital-only drugs

King's College London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nearly half of drug-caused deaths by healthcare workers involved drugs that were obtained from their place of work, new research finds.

Journal: Addiction

22-Jul-2025

Suppressing tumor cell stemness might help colon cancer management

University of Fukui
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Colon cancer is often driven by cancer stem cells, which resist treatment and lead to relapse. In a recent study, researchers from Japan revealed how transcription factors CDX1 and CDX2 suppress cancer cell stemness by blocking β-catenin’s ability to activate key genes like LGR5. Their findings showed that CDX1/2 prevent the formation of key transcriptional complexes involving DSIF and PAF1, identifying these as critical regulators and potential therapeutic targets in colon cancer.

Journal: Cell Death and Disease

22-Jul-2025

Like humans, AI can jump to conclusions, Mount Sinai study finds

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study by investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with colleagues from Rabin Medical Center in Israel and other collaborators, suggests that even the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models can make surprisingly simple mistakes when faced with complex medical ethics scenarios. The findings, which raise important questions about how and when to rely on large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, in health care settings, were reported in the July 22 online issue of NPJ Digital Medicine.

Journal: npj Digital Medicine

22-Jul-2025

Stem cell transplant without toxic preparation successfully treats genetic disease

Stanford Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An antibody developed at Stanford Medicine can prepare patients for stem cell transplantation, sparing them toxic side effects, a phase 1 clinical trial found.

Journal: Nature Medicine

22-Jul-2025

Radiation therapy overcomes immunotherapy resistance in some cancers

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By sparking the immune system into action, radiation therapy makes certain tumors that resist immunotherapy susceptible to the treatment, leading to positive outcomes for patients, according to new research by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Netherlands Cancer Institute. The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Journal: Nature Cancer
Funder: The Johns Hopkins University from AstraZeneca, LabCorp/Personal Genome Diagnostics, Delfi Diagnostics, Bristol-Myers Squibb

22-Jul-2025

Gender-fair job titles don’t shift teen career aspirations in healthcare, study finds

De Gruyter
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published in Open Psychology finds that changing how healthcare professions are labeled — whether through gender-fair pair forms (e.g., “female and male nurses”), the traditional masculine generic, or omitting the title entirely — does not significantly influence adolescents’ reported career interest or their anticipated sense of belonging in these roles.

Journal: Open Psychology
Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation

22-Jul-2025

Novel one-two punch treatment strategy shows promise in preclinical models of advanced prostate cancer

Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Results of a study led by VHIO’s Prostate Cancer Group suggest that treatment with CDK4/6 inhibitors followed by senloytic therapies and PARP inhibitors could improve outcomes and combat cancer drug resistance in advanced prostate cancer.

Journal: Molecular Cancer Therapeutics