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Jun 2026
New AI tool cuts breast cancer biopsy wait times
Women with abnormal mammograms often have to wait for weeks to find out whether they have breast cancer.
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Jun 2026
Gladstone receives NIAID grant to establish the Center for PhAIge Therapy
When a bacterial infection stops responding to antibiotics, doctors have few options to treat it. Phages-viruses that naturally infect and kill bacteria-have long intrigued clinicians as a potential weapon against these infections.
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Jun 2026
Existing drug mitigates muscle loss from GLP-1 medications
Millions of Americans are currently taking GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic or Wegovy for weight loss.
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Jun 2026
New funding supports cutting-edge research to combat cancers across South Texas
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) and its academic health center, UT Health San Antonio, recently received over $2.7 million in new academic and prevention awards from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to further its mission of combating cancers across South Texas.
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Jun 2026
AI-assisted model based on blood proteins could help predict retinal degeneration in diabetics
An AI-assisted model based on 71 different blood proteins could help doctors better predict retinal degeneration in diabetic patients before symptoms occur, according to a study published June 2nd in the open access journal PLOS Medicine by Huangdong Li from the Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases in Guangzhou, China, and colleagues.
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Jun 2026
Modified stem cell therapy reverses new-onset Type 1 diabetes in mice
A group of researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has recently developed a new stem cell therapy with a remarkable ability to reverse new-onset Type 1 diabetes (T1D) in a mouse model of the disease.
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Jun 2026
Five-minute session of proximal intercessory prayer eases primary care pain and anxiety
A randomized controlled trial conducted at the University of Maryland School of Medicine has found that a five-minute session of proximal intercessory prayer (PIP) - in-person prayer offered by a trained volunteer - significantly reduced pain and anxiety in primary care patients compared to a music control group.
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Jun 2026
Study finds serious blood-related side effects associated with antibody-drug conjugates
A major real-world study by University of California, Irvine pharmacy researchers has found serious blood-related side effects associated with antibody-drug conjugates, an increasingly important class of targeted cancer therapies.
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Jun 2026
First-in-class cancer drug gamitrinib evaluated in phase 1 clinical trial
Cancer cells need large amounts of energy to survive and multiply. To produce that energy, they rely on structures inside the cell called mitochondria, often described as the cell's "powerhouse."
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Jun 2026
Scalable solutions can help address anxiety and mood disorders in women
Women make up half the world's population yet are the focus of relatively little research, leading to deficits in their mental health care.
