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Mar 2026
New report provides the most detailed picture of preventable child deaths worldwide
An estimated 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2024, including 2.3 million newborns, according to new estimates released today.
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Mar 2026
New tool helps thousands achieve better blood pressure control
A blood pressure program adopted across the University of California's six academic medical centers has effectively lowered hypertension and prevented serious disease or death for thousands of patients, according to a new study led by UC San Francisco.
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Mar 2026
GLP-1 medications linked to reduced psychiatric hospital visits
GLP-1 medications used to treat diabetes and obesity were associated with a reduced need for hospital care and sickness absence due to psychiatric reasons, a new study shows.
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Mar 2026
Menopause may raise women’s Alzheimer risk earlier than doctors once thought
This review argues that women’s higher Alzheimer disease risk may be shaped in part by midlife neuroendocrine aging, especially the menopause transition, rather than by longevity alone. It highlights early menopause, bilateral oophorectomy, vasomotor symptoms, and midlife cognitive changes as underinvestigated but potentially important risk markers, while calling for sex-specific, biomarker-driven prevention strategies.
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Mar 2026
New nanomaterial enhances bioimaging and targeted cancer drug delivery
The Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicology Group (GNano) at the University of São Paulo's São Carlos Institute of Physics (IFSC-USP) in Brazil has discovered a way to transform hydroxyapatite, a bioceramic material, into a nanoparticle with enhanced intrinsic luminescence.
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Mar 2026
Obesity in childhood may limit future income and opportunities
Childhood obesity may be quietly undermining one of the central promises of American life.
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Mar 2026
New data hub aims to advance alternatives to animal testing
A research team at NYU Langone Health and Sage Bionetworks has been awarded a $25 million grant to establish the data hub and coordinating center for the National Institutes of Health's Complement-Animal Research in Experimentation (Complement-ARIE) program.
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Mar 2026
People with type 1 diabetes face higher risk of developing dementia
Having type 1 diabetes is associated with a higher risk of developing dementia, according to a study published March 18, 2026, in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Mar 2026
Blocking a single protein could make hidden HPV-positive tumors vulnerable to treatment
A team of scientists at Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences have uncovered a mechanism that allows certain head and neck cancers to hide from the immune system, a discovery that could change how some of the most treatment resistant tumors are approached.
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Mar 2026
New pathway explains poor response to bladder cancer immunotherapy
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center have discovered a biological pathway that helps explain why some bladder cancers do not respond well to immunotherapy.
