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Jul 2026
Older adults living at home experience more boredom and fewer meaningful activities
Today, most elderly people with disabilities receive help at home, and there are limited places in nursing homes.
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Jul 2026
Preterm adults show varied outcomes across optimal, moderate, and low-functioning groups
A landmark 34-year study, co-led by University of Warwick, tracks very preterm babies from birth to middle adulthood and identifies early cognitive development as the strongest predictor of who flourishes and struggles as adults.
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Jul 2026
Distributed neural networks make decoding cognition vastly harder than movement
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have made remarkable progress restoring movement and speech in people with paralysis.
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Jul 2026
Copper isotope shows promise for early childhood anemia detection
The rising incidence of anemia and overweight has been identified as a serious public health problem worldwide, especially among children and adolescents.
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Jul 2026
Study examines the link between blood type and cardiovascular risk in hemodialysis patients
Do you know your blood type? It is important information that is used for blood transfusions, but few realize blood types could also be linked to disease risks. In the general population, people with blood type O have been reported to have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular mortality.
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Jul 2026
Study tests chronotype’s liver link and finds no significant association
Researchers found no significant association between chronotype and FibroScan-derived liver fat or stiffness in 119 medication-naïve adults with overweight or obesity. The exploratory findings cannot exclude smaller effects, particularly for fibrosis, and require confirmation in larger longitudinal studies.
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Jul 2026
New strategy boosts immune attack against pancreatic cancer
Researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School have identified why pancreatic cancer is difficult for the immune system to recognize and attack, paving the way for a new approach to improve immunotherapy.
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Jul 2026
Oral drug avatrombopag reduces chemotherapy treatment delays, trial finds
In a phase 2 trial of patients with gastrointestinal cancers, avatrombopag helped 70% of those receiving chemotherapy to stay on treatment schedule, compared with 17% receiving placebo.
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Jul 2026
New AI score enhances monitoring of myelodysplastic neoplasms
Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have developed a new AI-based method to assess patients with a form of blood cancer called myelodysplastic neoplasms.
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Jul 2026
Drinking more water with meals may lead people to eat more
In two randomized crossover studies involving 86 adults, greater water consumption and more frequent switching between bites and sips were associated with higher food and energy intake during beef chili and chicken tikka masala meals. The exploratory secondary analysis cannot establish causality, but it challenges the assumption that drinking water during a meal necessarily curbs eating.
