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Study: Nicotine pouch use nearly doubles among U.S. high school students

The use of nicotine pouches - small, easily concealed sachets of nicotine and additives that are placed between the gum and lip - nearly doubled among U.S. high school students between 2023 and 2024, according to a new USC study.

30 Apr 2025

Leveraging the Radian ASAP in standard casework

Explore how the Radian ASAP mass spectrometer is being used to streamline and enhance seized drug screening.

From Waters Advanced Diagnostics 30 Apr 2025

Curcumin shows promise for treating obesity, inflammation, and neurodegenerative diseases

Researchers explore the medicinal role of curcumin in the treatment and prevention of neuroinflammation and metabolic disorders.

30 Apr 2025

Financial Toxicity Tumor Board approach provides relief from cancer treatment costs

Financial toxicity, the financial distress linked to cancer treatment, significantly impacts patient outcomes. To combat this, the Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute established a Financial Toxicity Tumor Board in 2019.

29 Apr 2025

Phthalates linked to hundreds of thousands of global heart disease deaths

Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to the more than 356,000 global deaths from heart disease that occurred in 2018 alone, a new analysis of population surveys shows.

29 Apr 2025

Global analysis ties plastic ingredient to soaring heart disease deaths

Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 356,000 global deaths from heart disease in 2018 alone, a new analysis of population surveys shows.

29 Apr 2025

Obesity changes how the gut responds to plant compounds, researchers report

Researchers found that the impact of polyphenols rutin and genistein on the human fecal metabolome varies significantly by body mass index (BMI). Lower BMI individuals showed more diverse metabolic responses, revealing how gut health and obesity could shape polyphenol metabolism.

28 Apr 2025

Humanized antibody dismantles metabolic barrier as a potential cancer immunotherapy

A Ludwig Cancer Research study has identified a specific mode of fat uptake by immune cells within tumors that serves as a metabolic checkpoint against anti-cancer immune responses.

28 Apr 2025

Processed blueberry bars provide polyphenols as effectively as raw fruit, research reveals

A randomized controlled trial from North Carolina State University found that food processing minimally affects the bioavailability of (poly)phenols from blueberries and blueberry-enriched protein bars. Both processed and raw forms delivered comparable levels of bioavailable phytochemicals.

28 Apr 2025

Trump administration retreats from 100% withholding on Social Security clawbacks

The Social Security Administration is backing off a plan it announced in March to withhold 100% of many beneficiaries' monthly payments to claw back money the government had allegedly overpaid them.

28 Apr 2025

CommunityRx program reduces ER visits for food insecure children

In a new clinical study published in JAMA Pediatrics, researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine found that a low-intensity program that "prescribes" community resources to every parent or other primary caregiver of a hospitalized child reduced the use of acute care for children of food-insecure families in the following year, saving potentially thousands of dollars in healthcare expenditures while demanding little more than minutes of staff time per family.

28 Apr 2025

Targeted drug zongertinib shows strong results for HER2-mutant lung cancer in clinical trial

The HER2-targeted therapy zongertinib demonstrated clinical benefits for previously treated patients with advanced HER2-mutant non-small cell lung cancer – particularly those with specific HER2 mutations – with manageable side effects, according to results from the Phase Ia/Ib Beamion LUNG-1 trial led by researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

28 Apr 2025

Study links ultraprocessed foods to higher risk of premature deaths, modeling shows

A study analyzing data from nationally representative dietary surveys and mortality data from eight countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, United Kingdom, and United States) shows that premature deaths attributable to consumption of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) increase significantly according to their share in individuals' total energy intake.

28 Apr 2025

Ultra-processed foods make up nearly half of US grocery purchases, raising public health concerns

A 2025 study of nearly 60,000 US households found that almost half of grocery purchases were ultra-processed foods (UPFs), with major disparities based on income, education, and race. Non-Hispanic white households led in UPF purchases, especially in beverages, reversing earlier trends.

28 Apr 2025

Pre and post-surgical immunotherapy improves survival in head and neck cancer patients

Patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer who received the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab before, during and after standard-of-care surgery had longer event-free survival without the cancer coming back and higher rates of substantial tumor shrinkage prior to surgery, according to the first interim analysis of a randomized, open-label phase 3 clinical trial led by investigators from Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

27 Apr 2025

Perspective shows Brexit exposed vulnerabilities in the UK’s food system

A new perspective article in Foods analyzes how Brexit disrupted the UK's food standards, security, and agricultural policy. The authors argue that emerging neoliberal frameworks like neo-developmentalism and eco-extractivism are reshaping the UK’s food system and national resilience.

27 Apr 2025

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Study: Nicotine pouch use nearly doubles among U.S. high school students

Leveraging the Radian ASAP in standard casework

Curcumin shows promise for treating obesity, inflammation, and neurodegenerative diseases

Financial Toxicity Tumor Board approach provides relief from cancer treatment costs

Phthalates linked to hundreds of thousands of global heart disease deaths

Global analysis ties plastic ingredient to soaring heart disease deaths

Obesity changes how the gut responds to plant compounds, researchers report

Humanized antibody dismantles metabolic barrier as a potential cancer immunotherapy

Processed blueberry bars provide polyphenols as effectively as raw fruit, research reveals

Trump administration retreats from 100% withholding on Social Security clawbacks

CommunityRx program reduces ER visits for food insecure children

Targeted drug zongertinib shows strong results for HER2-mutant lung cancer in clinical trial

Study links ultraprocessed foods to higher risk of premature deaths, modeling shows

Ultra-processed foods make up nearly half of US grocery purchases, raising public health concerns

Pre and post-surgical immunotherapy improves survival in head and neck cancer patients

Perspective shows Brexit exposed vulnerabilities in the UK’s food system

Researchers discover brain pathway to ease nicotine withdrawal

Traditional African diet can protect against chronic diseases in just two weeks

Turning to kelp for sustainable lab-grown meat

Manipulating a master regulator prevents tumor growth in mice

Understanding cultivated meat and its global potential eBook

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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