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May 2026
Private health insurance expansion leads to poorer overall public health
People with private health insurance can jump the public healthcare queue by using private health services instead. Is there really anything wrong with that?
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May 2026
Graph neural networks accelerate drug discovery for complex bone diseases
Announcing a new publication for Acta Materia Medica journal. Traditional Chinese medicine has shown therapeutic potential in treating osteoarthritis (OA) by regulating inflammation and maintaining cartilage homeostasis.
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May 2026
Innovative platform bridges the gap between OUD treatment and HIV prevention
People with opioid use disorder (OUD) are at increased risk of contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). While there are effective interventions that can substantially reduce HIV incidence and opioid overdose, like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), many patients still face barriers to accessing and staying engaged in care.
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May 2026
How screen time, stress, and nicotine trap young adults in poor sleep
Among the younger part of the population, sleep problems, anxiety, and depression are widespread and growing issues.
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May 2026
What medicine-exposed rats reveal about the next urban zoonotic threat
Researchers found that more than half of urban rats sampled from low-income communities in Salvador, Brazil, carried active pharmaceutical ingredients in their brain tissue. These pollutants were associated with altered zoonotic infection patterns, including lower Leptospira infection probability in rats carrying azithromycin and higher Capillaria infection probability in rats carrying citalopram.
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May 2026
New study reveals nitric oxide’s widespread impact on genetics
Genes undergo extensive editing through a process called alternative splicing, which greatly increases the size of the functional genome, the working portion of our DNA that helps make each person unique. Put simply, a single gene can be edited in different ways to produce multiple sets of instructions.
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May 2026
Explainable AI could make breast cancer drug predictions safer and clearer
AI-driven genomic analysis could help researchers identify existing drugs that may be repurposed for subtype-specific breast cancer treatment. The review proposes an interpretability-driven framework that links multi-omics data, mechanistic validation, and clinical translation to make AI predictions more transparent and clinically useful.
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May 2026
Could blocking inflammation help treat difficult-to-treat depression?
A small proof-of-concept RCT found that tocilizumab, an IL-6 receptor blocker, showed a non-significant but clinically suggestive pattern of improvement in difficult-to-treat depression linked to low-grade inflammation. The study found that baseline hs-CRP, rather than IL-6, may help identify patients most likely to respond, supporting larger trials of immune-targeted depression care.
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May 2026
Research show worsening health trends for post-1946 generations
Younger generations appear to be experiencing poorer health earlier in life than previous generations, according to a review of studies comparing national birth cohort datasets involving tens of thousands of people across the UK born since 1946.
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May 2026
New genetic roadmap offers targeted treatment for rare inflammatory disorder
Not all broken genes fail in the same way: some simply stop working, while others interfere with what still works.
