Medicine & Health

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9-Jul-2025

Medical needles in the hands of AI

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers build AI guidance for medical needle-based procedures and outline the degrees of AI guidance for each component.

Journal

Science Robotics

9-Jul-2025

FDA-approved drugs could make nano-medicine safer, study finds

University of Colorado Anschutz
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international study led by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has identified a promising strategy to enhance the safety of nanomedicines, advanced therapies often used in cancer and vaccine treatments, by using drugs already approved by the FDA for unrelated conditions.

Journal

Science Advances

9-Jul-2025

Prenatal and childhood lead exposure linked to faster memory decay in children

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

A study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai shows that exposure to lead during pregnancy and early childhood may accelerate the rate at which children forget information—a critical marker of memory impairment that may have implications for learning and development.

Journal

Science Advances

9-Jul-2025

Somali women’s perspectives on female genital mutilation and its abandonment

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

 Somali women describe a complex and shifting tradition of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Somalia, according to a study published July 9, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS Global Public Health by Zamzam I.A. Ali from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and the Mayo Clinic, US, and colleagues. 

Journal

PLOS Global Public Health

9-Jul-2025

Clinical trials reveal promising alternatives to highly toxic tuberculosis drug

LMU Klinikum
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Two international clinical studies led by PD Dr Norbert Heinrich at the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at LMU University Hospital Munich with international partners have shown the safety and efficacy of two promising antibiotics as potential alternatives to linezolid in the treatment of tuberculosis.

Journal

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Funder

EDCTP2, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, German Center for Infection Research, EU/German Ministry for Education and Research

9-Jul-2025

Dr. Arjan Gower receives grant to study targeted therapy for early-stage lung cancer

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Grant and Award Announcement

Dr. Arjan Gower, a hematologist/oncologist at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has received a research grant from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network to study a promising new targeted therapy for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with rare EGFR mutations.

Funder

National Comprehensive Cancer Network

9-Jul-2025

Forum with alcohol industry ties shows significant bias in reviews of health research

University of Victoria
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study, published in Addiction, shines a light on how industries associated with health harms—such as tobacco, fossil fuels, and in this case, alcohol—can distort the evaluation of scientific research through industry-friendly commentary.