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UC Irvine researchers develop framework to make CAR T-cell therapy safer

CAR T-cell therapy has transformed cancer care, offering new hope to patients with aggressive blood cancers who once had few treatment options.

18 Aug 2026

Exhausted T cells can escape tumors and confer long-lasting immunity to cancer in mice

As the immune system battles cancer, chronic stimulation gradually drives T cells to a state of exhaustion.

18 Aug 2026

Study links dollar store food quality to worse health outcomes

While consumers may save a few bucks on groceries at dollar stores, they end up paying a higher price with their health.

18 Aug 2026

Prenatal exposure to higher water fluoride levels associated with lower child cognition

Pregnant mothers who lived in neighborhoods where public drinking water fluoride levels were near or above the current U.S. recommended levels tended to have children who scored lower on tests of fluid reasoning as fluoride levels increased, according to a new study supported by the National Institutes of Health's Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program.

18 Aug 2026

Swedish researchers use 3D model to study snoring mechanics

Anyone who has had to share a room - or worse, a bed - with a loud snorer knows the effect unchecked snoring can have on sleep, sanity, and emotional stability.

18 Aug 2026

Study: Many patients struggle to understand online test results

You get a message that a test result is available in your online patient portal. Do you look at it right away, or do you wait to hear from your health care provider?

18 Aug 2026

Improved indoor lighting may prevent nearsightedness in children

Research has already shown that the more time children spend playing with screens indoors instead of playing outdoors, the more likely they are to develop myopia.

18 Aug 2026

Shifting expectations of unpredictability could help treat schizophrenia delusions

New research has found that improvements to the severity of delusions in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder recovering from an acute psychotic episode were significantly associated with reductions in volatility priors—someone's expectations about the unpredictability of their environment.

18 Aug 2026

New lightweight knee exoskeleton helps older adults walk more easily

The knee is a key weight-bearing and stabilizing joint in daily locomotion, supporting body weight, maintaining balance, and enabling flexible movement during level walking, ramp ascent and descent, and stair ascent and descent.

18 Aug 2026

Habitual pork consumption supports clinically meaningful weight loss, study finds

According to a peer-reviewed study published May 29, 2026 in Nutrition & Diabetes, adults with overweight or obesity (mean BMI: 33.6 kg/m²; mean age: 47.7 years) who reported continuing to eat pork while participating in a 6-month digital weight management program lost a clinically significant 5.3% of starting body weight and improved their overall diet quality scores by 4.3 points.

18 Aug 2026

UVA researchers find how postoperative delirium may set the stage for dementia

UVA Health researchers have discovered how a form of delirium that often strikes older patients after surgery may set the stage for dementia – and identified a drug that could reverse the underlying brain changes.

18 Aug 2026

UToledo researchers find new way to spot earliest warning signs of liver disease

Liver disease often progresses silently until it has become a serious condition. Researchers at The University of Toledo may have found a way to identify one of its earliest warning signs before symptoms appear.

18 Aug 2026

New study links chronic stress to immunotherapy resistance in tumors

Immunotherapy has transformed cancer treatment, yet many tumors remain stubbornly resistant to its effects.

18 Aug 2026

Study provides new insights into how IL-26 reshapes the tumor immune landscape

While cancer cells acquire malignant traits through epigenetic remodeling, it remains unclear how immune-derived inflammatory factors regulate the epigenetics of colorectal cancer cells.

18 Aug 2026

Dual-action compounds show promise against aggressive cancer and infections

Cancer patients often face more than the disease itself. Their treatment is frequently complicated by infections and other health conditions, meaning they may need to take several different medications at once.

18 Aug 2026

Alliance highlights the importance of clinical research on World Breast Cancer Research Day

This World Breast Cancer Research Day, the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology is highlighting the importance of clinical research in advancing better treatments and improving early detection to ultimately help prevent and cure breast cancer.

18 Aug 2026

Two-year symptom tracking better predicts long-term mental health of disaster survivors

Nearly 15 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, many survivors are still living with the psychological effects of the disaster.

18 Aug 2026

Music activates brain networks for imagination and meaning

In a new paper appearing Aug. 18 in Nature Communications, Princeton University researchers show how music produces distinct patterns in the regions of the brain associated with imagination and meaning, similar to those prompted by spoken narratives.

18 Aug 2026

Key molecule released during exercise strengthens muscles

Scientists have discovered that a key molecule released during exercise strengthens muscles, improves exercise performance and could be a therapeutic treatment for muscle damage caused by type 2 diabetes.

18 Aug 2026

Five-week training program helps college students regulate their emotions

A five-week training intervention taught college students to better regulate their emotions in response to negative events, a new study finds.

18 Aug 2026

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UC Irvine researchers develop framework to make CAR T-cell therapy safer

Exhausted T cells can escape tumors and confer long-lasting immunity to cancer in mice

Study links dollar store food quality to worse health outcomes

Prenatal exposure to higher water fluoride levels associated with lower child cognition

Swedish researchers use 3D model to study snoring mechanics

Study: Many patients struggle to understand online test results

Improved indoor lighting may prevent nearsightedness in children

Shifting expectations of unpredictability could help treat schizophrenia delusions

New lightweight knee exoskeleton helps older adults walk more easily

Habitual pork consumption supports clinically meaningful weight loss, study finds

UVA researchers find how postoperative delirium may set the stage for dementia

UToledo researchers find new way to spot earliest warning signs of liver disease

New study links chronic stress to immunotherapy resistance in tumors

Study provides new insights into how IL-26 reshapes the tumor immune landscape

Dual-action compounds show promise against aggressive cancer and infections

Alliance highlights the importance of clinical research on World Breast Cancer Research Day

Two-year symptom tracking better predicts long-term mental health of disaster survivors

Music activates brain networks for imagination and meaning

Key molecule released during exercise strengthens muscles

Five-week training program helps college students regulate their emotions

Voltammetry and machine learning for real-time neurotransmitter detection

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