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Jul 2026
Wearable devices reveal changing sleep patterns throughout college years
Sleep is a fundamental aspect of human health that plays a crucial role in cognitive function, academic performance, and social interactions.
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Jul 2026
Compulsive smartphone use linked to higher depression risk in older adults
Compulsive smartphone habits in older adults can be linked to a higher risk of depression, according to a study led by a Rutgers researcher.
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Jul 2026
New safety strategies reduced serious surgical events in children
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago achieved more than a 13-fold improvement in surgical safety after implementing a series of interventions based on high reliability principles across its operating rooms.
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Jul 2026
Study potential new therapeutic strategy for patients with ATRX-mutant gliomas
A new study from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has uncovered how one of the most common genetic alterations in glioma rewires the cancer cell genome to fuel tumor progression, suggesting a potential new therapeutic strategy for patients with ATRX-mutant gliomas.
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Jul 2026
Smart prodrug targets Alzheimer's disease using hydrogen peroxide signals
A substance that worsens dementia has become a "switch" that initiates treatment. KAIST researchers have developed a new therapeutic approach that uses hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂), a reactive oxygen species that damages cells and increases in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease, to activate a drug selectively in diseased brain tissue.
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Jul 2026
Mechanical restraint may increase short-term blood clot risk in psychiatric patients
Mechanical restraint is associated with a small increased short term risk of blood clots among inpatients at psychiatric hospitals, finds a Danish study published by The BMJ today.
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Jul 2026
Blood pressure and cholesterol gaps shrink among older adults with obesity
Over the last three decades, differences in unhealthy cholesterol levels and blood pressure between older adults with obesity and those with a normal Body Mass Index (BMI) have narrowed or disappeared in several high-income countries, suggests a study published in The Lancet.
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Jul 2026
Regular exercise boosts success rates for quitting smoking
A pack-a-day smoker can spend around $14,000 a year on cigarettes, yet despite the financial and health costs, quitting remains one of the most difficult changes many people will ever attempt.
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Jul 2026
Engineered CAR T cells show promise against myeloproliferative neoplasms
A new form of CAR T cell therapy has been designed to find and destroy the cancer-driving stem cells responsible for a group of blood cancers known as myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), while leaving healthy blood cells unharmed, in new research led by UCL and University of Oxford researchers.
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Jul 2026
Imaging scans detect prostate cancer progression despite stable PSA levels
Patients with advanced prostate cancer may need periodic imaging scans to catch tumor growth even with stable levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a protein in the blood that doctors routinely monitor for cancer progression, according to an analysis led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Duke University.
