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AI-based model predicts glioblastoma recurrence to guide targeted treatment

A new AI-based model can predict where glioblastoma is most likely to return after initial surgery, potentially giving doctors a chance to treat it before it becomes visible on MRI.

25 Sep 2026

Emerging therapies expand the treatment landscape for coronary artery disease

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications. Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the leading cause of death globally, despite the limited efficacy of current pharmacological therapies.

25 Sep 2026

UC researcher receives funding to study bone complications in people with sickle cell disease

September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month, and a University of Cincinnati College of Medicine hematology researcher has received new grant funding to study one of the disease's painful, under-recognized complications: bone damage.

25 Sep 2026

New pre-hospital blood test reduces unnecessary emergency department visits for chest pain

Researchers in The Netherlands have found that about 30% of presentations to emergency departments of patients with chest pain could be avoided if a highly sensitive troponin test is used in combination with other parameters by ambulance crews during pre-hospital triaging.

25 Sep 2026

Cornell researchers document first case of Marfan syndrome in cats

Researchers at Cornell University have documented the first molecular characterization of Marfan syndrome in domestic cats in a paper in Scientific Reports.

25 Sep 2026

Study links emergency department overcrowding to higher patient mortality

The risk of death for patients treated in the emergency department increases by one per cent for every ten per cent increase in occupancy, according to research that will be presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress.

25 Sep 2026

Engineers use the human body to transmit wireless device signals

Using the human body to transmit signals, Georgia Tech engineers have created a wireless networking system that allows tiny implantable sensors and actuators to communicate with each other as well as wearable devices.

25 Sep 2026

New project aims to make cellular therapies more accessible through room temperature storage

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, has executed an award of up to $36.5 million in support of a University of California, Davis-led project aiming to make cellular therapies cheaper and more accessible through room temperature storage.

25 Sep 2026

Radiotherapy lowers recurrence of atypical meningiomas, study shows

Atypical meningiomas are tumors originating in the meninges and are associated with a high risk of recurrence.

25 Sep 2026

Hospital overcrowding drives increasing violence against emergency healthcare workers

Seventy-five percent of workers in emergency medical departments and services have witnessed violence in the past year, according to a survey of over 1,300 health professionals in 81 countries worldwide.

25 Sep 2026

Common anti-epileptic medication shows promise in reducing migraine aura

A new study by researchers at Lund University in Sweden found that 85 percent of patients with aura-dominant migraine experienced a reduction in monthly aura days by at least half following treatment with the anti-epileptic drug lamotrigine.

25 Sep 2026

New test identifies the genetic cause of inherited muscle disease

A world-first test developed by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has identified the genetic cause of inherited muscle disease in people who remained without answers after years, sometimes decades, of standard testing.

25 Sep 2026

Specialized immune cells bridge the nervous and immune systems

A collaborative team led by Professor Jie Zhou at Tianjin Medical University School of Basic Medicine and Professor Qiang Liu at Tianjin Medical University General Hospital published a comprehensive review in Volume 2 of the journal Immunity & Inflammation on September 8, 2026.

25 Sep 2026

In vivo CAR-T therapy transforms customized treatments into universal medicines

A collaborative team led by Professor Huji Xu from Naval Medical University, China, together with Professors Xuanming Yang and Yujia Cai at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, published a comprehensive review in Volume 2, article number 33 of the journal Immunity & Inflammation on August 31, 2026.

25 Sep 2026

Study explains how stroke promotes aggressive glioma tumor growth

Researchers at Texas Children's Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI), Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions show in Nature Cancer that stroke promotes glioma growth and uncovered cellular and molecular mediators involved in the process, linking brain injury to malignant brain tumors.

25 Sep 2026

Leica Biosystems brings Tempus pathology products to Aperio AI Store, accelerating AI-powered capabilities for oncology research

The Aperio AI Store integrates Tempus' AI applications, transforming complex pathology images into research insights and accelerating cancer diagnostics.

From Leica Biosystems 25 Sep 2026

Blood proteins may help monitor Alzheimer’s treatment response

Patients with early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease may be prescribed anti-amyloid therapy, which can help clear the sticky clumps of amyloid protein in the brain that characterize Alzheimer's.

25 Sep 2026

Intuitive eating may be linked to more than a healthier relationship with food

A cross-sectional study of 1,057 U.S. adults examined how intuitive eating relates to stress, sleep, physical activity, substance use, diet, self-rated health, and self-reported cardiometabolic conditions. Higher intuitive eating scores were associated with several favorable health indicators, although the study cannot establish causality or determine the direction of these relationships.

25 Sep 2026

Neuromedin U drives immune suppression in aggressive prostate cancer

A new study from The Wistar Institute has found a link between the nervous system and the rapid development of neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC), an aggressive form of the disease.

24 Sep 2026

USP15 enzyme emerges as potential target for ovarian cancer treatment

Ovarian cancer is often diagnosed after it has already spread to other parts of the body, at which point the five-year survival rate is under 30 percent.

24 Sep 2026