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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 23-Oct-2026 17:17 ET (23-Oct-2026 21:17 GMT/UTC)

Cancer care uses biological tests to guide treatment. Why doesn't psychiatry?

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Paper co-led by UCLA Health outlines how biological tests could help match psychiatric patients to medications with less trial and error.

Journal: NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Sex is safe in type 1 diabetes, shows small study using continuous glucose monitoring devices

European Association for the Study of Diabetes
Reports and Proceedings

**Note this is an early release from the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]. Please credit the meeting when using this research**

New research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of The European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Milan, Italy (Sept 28 – Oct 2) shows, with the use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices, sexual intercourse is safe for people living with type 1 diabetes. The study is by Dr Dominica Orłowska, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, and colleagues.

Meeting: Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)

UCF researcher uses conservation genomics to advance Florida scrub-jay recovery

University of Central Florida
Grant and Award Announcement

Recent research from UCF on Florida scrub-jays suggests that translocation may do more than establish new populations — it may also disrupt long-standing social and reproductive patterns, with implications for conservation and ultimately species recovery.

Kids involved with child protective services miss much more school than their peers

Ohio State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from The Ohio State University, published in Children and Youth Services Review, found that students with CPS contact were more likely to be absent from school than their peers, for both excused and unexcused reasons.

Journal: Children and Youth Services Review

Anti-transgender legislation causes psychological distress even in states with trans-friendly laws, according to VCU research

Virginia Commonwealth University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Transgender study participants viewed the more than 2,000 laws proposed in the U.S. since 2020 ‘as an existential threat’ to their lives and the lives of other transgender people.

Journal: American Psychologist

Nighttime light may disrupt sleep in people with schizophrenia

Fujita Health University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nighttime light exposure may worsen sleep in people with schizophrenia, according to a study of 225 outpatients. Researchers at Fujita Health University found that higher nighttime illuminance was linked to lower sleep efficiency and total sleep time, as well as longer time to fall asleep and more nighttime wakefulness. The associations were detected using objective sleep measurements, while patients’ self-reported sleep quality showed no significant relationship with nighttime light exposure during sleep.

Journal: Psychiatry Research
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Takeda Science Foundation

How 30,000 archaeological treasures were saved from imminent destruction during Syria’s civil war

University of Sharjah
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research reveals how Syrian archaeologists defied the perils of civil war to save the invaluable collections of one of Syria’s most treasured museums.

Journal: Museum Management and Curatorship

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