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Study links brain waves to misremembering of negative, irrelevant information

A good night's sleep has long been understood to help us consolidate new memories, but we don't understand how. Associations with negative feelings like fear or stress can improve recall, but intentionally trying to remember can also be effective. But these two mechanisms are very different - one involuntary, one deliberate.

7 Oct 2025

AI must optimize home care, continuity, and early detection for older adults

HealthFORCE, a national alliance of leaders dedicated to addressing the root causes of America's healthcare workforce crisis, along with the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) and West Health, today released "Aging Well with AI: Empowering Care through Innovation," the first in a two-part white paper series exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) can strengthen the U.S. healthcare workforce and improve access to care.

7 Oct 2025

NCCN enhances widely used breast cancer guidelines with advanced digital features

Today, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)-a nonprofit responsible for globally utilized guidelines for cancer care-is sharing new NCCN Guidelines Navigator™ resources for breast cancer treatment as well as genetic/familial high-risk assessment, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

7 Oct 2025

Researchers design intrinsically disordered proteins with tailored properties

In synthetic and structural biology, advances in artificial intelligence have led to an explosion of designing new proteins with specific functions, from antibodies to blood clotting agents, by using computers to accurately predict the 3D structure of any given amino acid sequence.

7 Oct 2025

Logical Biological and Bcell Design announce strategic partnership for engineered disease state materials

Logical Biological, biospecimen and critical raw material leader, and Bcell Design, pioneers in transgenic monoclonal antibody technology, today announced a long term strategic partnership to deliver engineered disease state materials for diagnostic and research markets.

From Logical Biological 7 Oct 2025

New experimental methods show selective attention effect is exclusively cortical in humans

Research led by the University of Michigan's Kresge Hearing Research Institute and the University of Rochester illuminates the mechanisms through which humans can pick out and focus on single sounds in noisy environments.

6 Oct 2025

IASLC proposes new tumor budding-based grading system for lung squamous cell carcinoma

Invasive lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) accounts for approximately one-quarter of all lung cancers, but therapeutic options for LUSC remain limited, primarily due to the absence of well-defined, targetable molecular alterations.

6 Oct 2025

PAHO concludes 62nd Directing Council with Strategic Plan 2026-2031 for healthier Americas

The 62nd Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) concluded today, setting a bold agenda to address pressing health challenges across the Americas through the approval of the PAHO Strategic Plan 2026-2031 and key resolutions aimed at expanding access to high-cost high price health technologies, and preventing and controlling noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).

6 Oct 2025

PAHO introduces new tool to accelerate disease elimination in the Americas

During a briefing session at the 62nd Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), officials presented a new technical tool to help countries in the Region of the Americas accelerate the elimination of more than 30 communicable diseases and related conditions.

6 Oct 2025

PAHO Director calls for stronger cooperation in health financing and security

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Dr. Jarbas Barbosa met on Wednesday October 1 with members of the Council of the Americas' Healthcare Series leadership group and with health authorities from Argentina, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, and Panama to advocate for stronger cooperation in health financing and security.

6 Oct 2025

Health authorities approve new plan to tackle NCDs in the Americas

Health authorities from across the Americas today approved a new 2025-2030 Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) during the 62nd Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

6 Oct 2025

PAHO and ORAS-CONHU renew cooperation agreement to strengthen Andean health systems

Today the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Andean Health Organization - Hipólito Unanue Agreement (ORAS-CONHU) extended the Memorandum of Understanding that consolidates their cooperation framework through 2029.

6 Oct 2025

PAHO and Haitian government unite to advance health equity and care

The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Government of Haiti signed the 2026-2028 Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS), the first cooperation framework of its kind between the two, reaffirming their shared commitment to strengthening Haiti's health system and improving health outcomes for all.

6 Oct 2025

'Good' gut microbe found to support fetal growth and reduce pregnancy risks

Research led by the University of Cambridge has found the first clear evidence that the 'good' gut bacteria Bifidobacterium breve in pregnant mothers regulates the placenta's production of hormones critical for a healthy pregnancy.

6 Oct 2025

Nanotechnology breakthrough reverses Alzheimer’s disease in mice

A research team co-led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and West China Hospital Sichuan University (WCHSU), working with partners in the UK, has demonstrated a nanotechnology strategy that reverses Alzheimer's disease in mice.

6 Oct 2025

Microplastics can alter the human gut microbiome, research shows

New research presented today at UEG Week 2025 shows that microplastics – plastic particles smaller than 5mm commonly found in the environment – can alter the human gut microbiome, with some changes resembling patterns linked to depression and colorectal cancer.

6 Oct 2025

Artificially-sweetened and sugary drinks linked to higher risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

A major new study reveals that both sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and low- or non-sugar-sweetened beverages (LNSSBs) are significantly associated with a higher risk of developing metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD).

6 Oct 2025

Harnessing AI tools for better treatment of serious mental illnesses

Serious mental illnesses (SMI) take a tremendous toll on individuals, their friends and family, and society as a whole.

6 Oct 2025

New ASPIRE trial tests chemotherapy combination for advanced prostate cancer

The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology has launched the ASPIRE trial-a large-scale, Phase III clinical study investigating whether adding chemotherapy to current standard treatments can extend survival for men living with advanced prostate cancer.

6 Oct 2025

Live retinal imaging uncovers early signs of diabetic eye disease

A new method of taking microscopic images of a live mouse's retina through the eye allows to record the reaction of brain cells to disease and treatment.

6 Oct 2025