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Jul 2026
Psychiatry may be moving closer to precision medicine
For decades, treating depression has largely involved a difficult form of medical guesswork: prescribing one antidepressant after another in hopes that one will eventually help.
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Jul 2026
Researchers identify a distinct subtype of eosinophilic esophagitis in children
Researchers from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago identified a distinct subtype of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) – a chronic allergic inflammatory disorder in which the esophagus narrows, interfering with food going down properly.
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Jul 2026
New fluidic technology makes soft robots and wearables three times more powerful
Researchers have found an ingenious way to make soft robots and wearable technology more than three times more powerful by harnessing the surface tension of a tiny liquid metal droplet smaller than a rain droplet.
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Jul 2026
Study tracks why rural residents face higher chronic disease risks
Following the release of data from Assumption Parish earlier this year, researchers at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center have published the first set of data from the Risks Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal, or RURAL, Heart and Lung study in Franklin Parish. The data book for Franklin Parish is now available to explore.
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Jul 2026
Men face higher risk of late-stage cancer diagnoses than women
Between 2015 and 2022, men were more likely than women to be diagnosed with regional and/or distant stages of 20 nonreproductive solid cancer types in the United States, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
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Jul 2026
McMaster researchers uncover why statins cause painful muscle side effects
Millions of people rely on statins - a medication used to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Jul 2026
UC San Diego establishes hub to accelerate the delivery of data-driven, equitable health care
UC San Diego today announced the establishment of the Institute for Applied Health Intelligence, a multidisciplinary hub designed to leverage the latest digital technology to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes.
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Jul 2026
Neutral lipids may act as functional medium for controlling supramolecular polymerization
The formation of supramolecular polymers within living cells is an emerging strategy for regulating cellular functions, and lipid droplets (LDs) are promising environments for such processes.
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Jul 2026
Anti-lipid antibodies could improve early testing for Lyme disease
Lyme disease can be easiest to treat in its earliest stages, but current tests often miss infections during that critical window and cannot tell whether bacteria are still present or were cleared years ago.
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Jul 2026
Engineered immune cells suppress asthma symptoms in allergic mice
Genetically engineered CAR T cells expressing artificial receptor proteins are increasingly used in the clinic to boost the immune system's response against leukemias and other cancers.
