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Apr 2026
Autism risk rises with multiple medications taken during pregnancy
A study links maternal use of cholesterol-inhibiting medications during pregnancy to increased autism risk in children, urging caution in prescribing practices.
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Apr 2026
Rapid blood infection test fails to improve survival
Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing for gram-negative blood infections shows no improvement in clinical outcomes compared to standard testing methods.
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Apr 2026
New "plug-and-play" AI outperforms pathologists in lymph node metastasis detection
A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed a pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) pathology analysis system that can accurately recognize multiple types of cancer using only a minimal number of samples-without requiring any additional training. This breakthrough significantly enhances the flexibility and efficiency of AI-assisted medical care, marking a major step forward toward the widespread adoption of intelligent pathology.
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Apr 2026
New algorithms help surgeons make high-stakes transplant decisions in minutes
A new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools could help save more patients who need heart transplants by making better use of donor hearts that are currently discarded, according to research presented today by Brian Wayda, MD, at International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) 46th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions.
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Apr 2026
Large brain mapping dataset expands with new cognitive tasks
The Individual Brain Charting (IBC) project has released its fifth and largest update of high-resolution fMRI data, adding a new set of cognitive tasks to one of the most detailed brain-mapping datasets available today.
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Apr 2026
Cystic fibrosis therapies significantly reduce the need for pediatric lung transplants
Pediatric lung transplant specialist Christian Benden, MD, described the future for children who need lung transplants: fewer operations overall, but more complex patients and mounting challenges for the teams who care for them. He addressed the 46th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) today in Toronto.
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Apr 2026
Federal housing support improves survival odds for prostate cancer patients
Older men with prostate cancer who receive federal housing assistance at the time they are first diagnosed have better two-year survival chances compared to demographically and clinically similar men without that assistance, new UCLA-led research suggests.
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Apr 2026
Researchers identify ADHD and social traits in preschoolers with heart defects
Congenital heart disease (CHD) which is a problem with how the heart forms before birth -- occurs in approximately 1 % of newborns.
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Apr 2026
Urban asphalt releases harmful pollutants that threaten public health
If you piled all of Phoenix's pavement into one spot, it would be enough to cover San Francisco four times over.
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Apr 2026
Cleveland Clinic expert proposes global heart allocation to address health inequities
Today at the 46th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), Eileen Hsich, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, outlined a bold vision for the future of heart transplantation that moves beyond national borders to address global inequities in organ allocation.
