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Language skills are essential to a child’s ability to communicate and develop. These skills enable children to engage with other people and learn from their surroundings and in the classroom.

Children from deprived areas face worse outcomes in intensive care

Children from ethnic minority backgrounds and those living in areas with higher levels of child poverty were more likely to die in intensive care than White children and those from the least deprived areas.

11 Jul 2025

Large language models show promise in predicting liver cancer treatment response

A research team led by Prof. Hai Li from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has become the first to systematically explore how large language models (LLMs) can assist in predicting liver cancer treatment responses-offering a new path toward AI-powered precision medicine.

10 Jul 2025

Most baby foods are sweet, smooth, and poorly aligned with health advice, review finds

A new review of commercial baby foods in high-income countries reveals most products are high in sugars, low in texture diversity, and often fail to meet public health recommendations. Aggressive marketing and misleading labels further drive parental choices, despite official guidance favoring homemade options.

9 Jul 2025

New study identifies four distinct autism subtypes with unique genetic signatures

Autism is classified as a 'spectrum' for a reason: Each case is different. Scientists have struggled to parse through the many ways autism can manifest, much less to link these varying observable traits (called phenotypes) to underlying genetics.

9 Jul 2025

Nanohydrogel formulation of 5-fluorouracil shows promise for skin cancer therapy

Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. The pyrimidine analog 5-flurouracil (5-FU) is effective against solid tumors.

9 Jul 2025

Children from culturally and linguistically diverse families more likely to have hearing loss

Children from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) families are more likely to have hearing loss compared to their ethnic majority peers, research led by The University of Queensland has found.

8 Jul 2025

Understanding the human brain architecture through gene coexpression analysis

In a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview published in Brain Medicine, Dr. Michael C. Oldham shares his unconventional journey from advertising executive to computational neuroscientist and his groundbreaking contributions to understanding the human brain's cellular and molecular architecture through gene coexpression analysis.

8 Jul 2025

Unlocking the brain’s language to fight Alzheimer’s

June is Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month. With an estimated 55 million people living with Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia worldwide, advancing understanding of these complex diseases is critical to finding new treatments, and potentially, cures.

7 Jul 2025

Synthetic Biology and the Pursuit of Living Diagnostics and Therapeutics

In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding the field of synthetic biology and the potential of living diagnostics.

From Pittcon 7 Jul 2025

AI transforms healthcare for faster, smarter care in emergency crises

AI technologies are transforming humanitarian healthcare, enhancing crisis response with improved decision-making, resource allocation, and timely aid delivery.

4 Jul 2025

A systematic review of music therapy in stroke rehabilitation

Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. This article provides a systematic review of music therapy research progress and clinical applications in stroke rehabilitation.

4 Jul 2025

What’s behind the rising accident risk for Americans overseas?

Over the past two decades, US citizens traveling abroad have become relatively more likely to die from vehicular and non-vehicular accidents, even as absolute fatalities declined. Rising proportional mortality ratios highlight persistent regional risks, especially in lower-income destinations.

3 Jul 2025

New AI tool helps clinicians identify brain activity patterns linked to nine types of dementia

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that helps clinicians identify brain activity patterns linked to nine types of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, using a single, widely available scan - a transformative advance in early, accurate diagnosis.

3 Jul 2025

GOP governors mum as Congress prepares to slash Medicaid spending for their states

The last time a Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump moved to slash Medicaid spending, in 2017, a key political force stood in their way: GOP governors.

3 Jul 2025

AI system turns complex health records into readable narratives for better care

UCLA researchers have developed an AI system that turns fragmented electronic health records (EHR) normally in tables into readable narratives, allowing artificial intelligence to make sense of complex patient histories and use these narratives to perform clinical decision support with high accuracy.

2 Jul 2025

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Children from deprived areas face worse outcomes in intensive care

Large language models show promise in predicting liver cancer treatment response

Most baby foods are sweet, smooth, and poorly aligned with health advice, review finds

New study identifies four distinct autism subtypes with unique genetic signatures

Nanohydrogel formulation of 5-fluorouracil shows promise for skin cancer therapy

Children from culturally and linguistically diverse families more likely to have hearing loss

Understanding the human brain architecture through gene coexpression analysis

Unlocking the brain’s language to fight Alzheimer’s

Synthetic Biology and the Pursuit of Living Diagnostics and Therapeutics

AI transforms healthcare for faster, smarter care in emergency crises

A systematic review of music therapy in stroke rehabilitation

What’s behind the rising accident risk for Americans overseas?

New AI tool helps clinicians identify brain activity patterns linked to nine types of dementia

GOP governors mum as Congress prepares to slash Medicaid spending for their states

AI system turns complex health records into readable narratives for better care

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