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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 16-Dec-2025 10:11 ET (16-Dec-2025 15:11 GMT/UTC)

In stereo: neurons shift gears between thoughts using brain rhythms

Florida Atlantic University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

How individual neurons respond to brain rhythms is crucial to uncovering how the brain supports real-time navigation. New research shows that hippocampal neurons can process information from multiple brain rhythms simultaneously, revealing how the brain organizes thoughts, memory and behavior. This discovery offers a new understanding of how the brain organizes thoughts for navigation, memories and behaviors and may have important significance for neurological conditions implicated to spatial memory and learning like epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia.

Journal: PLOS Computational Biology

‘Trace’ memorial art installation honors essential workers lost to COVID-19

CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
Business Announcement

On May 28, CUNY SPH unveiled “Trace,” an interactive art installation memorializing essential workers who lost their lives to COVID-19 in the early months of the pandemic.

New continuing education tool from NCCN enables care providers to earn credits while supporting cancer patients

National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Business Announcement

The NCCN Guidelines in Practice™ helps busy health care professionals earn credits toward maintaining licensure and board certification while applying immediate, evidence-based updates to their practice.

Researchers identify a protein that may help improve the treatment of obesity and cardiovascular disease

University of Barcelona
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases are increasingly present in the population. Brown adipose tissue has a protective function against these prevalent diseases, as it burns calories and can produce body heat from fat. But as the body ages, the activity of brown adipose tissue decreases. This inactivation of brown adipose tissue — also typical of obese people — remains poorly studied in the scientific literature.

Journal: Molecular Metabolism

Bob Woodruff Foundation continues its commitment to women veterans

Boston University School of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

The Bob Woodruff Foundation (BWF) has given another grant to Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine for the continued expansion of the Women Veterans Network (WoVeN), a national, peer support network led by women veterans, for women veterans. This is the foundation’s fourth grant for WoVeN, bringing its total support for the program since 2020 to more than $900,000.

The Bob Woodruff Foundation grant to WoVeN was made possible by donations from the National Football League Salute to Service initiative and Craig Newmark Philanthropies.

New study suggests that PTSD is an important mental health comorbidity for veterans with diabetes

Boston University School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nearly one in four U.S. adults over the age of 65 have diabetes. Older Veterans are highly impacted by this disease, in part due to risk factors incurred during their military service such as exposure to Agent Orange and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Diabetes requires active and ongoing daily self-management and increases the risk of developing other chronic health conditions, which negatively impact functioning and disability.

In a new study, researchers have found that veteran men and women with both PTSD and diabetes were at heightened risk of disability and poor physical health functioning compared with veterans with neither condition or PTSD and diabetes only. This is one of the first large-scale studies to investigate the impact of co-occurring PTSD and diabetes on functioning and disability outcomes.

Journal: Health Psychology

Registration now open for the 9th IOF Asia-Pacific Bone Health Conference in Tokyo

International Osteoporosis Foundation
Meeting Announcement

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) announces the opening of registrations for the 9th IOF Asia-Pacific Bone Health Conference, taking place in Tokyo, Japan, from December 11–13, 2025. The preliminary programme highlights, including the planned launch of the IOF Asia Pacific Regional Audit during the Conference, are also outlined.

Meeting: 9th Asia-Pacific Bone Health Conference