Health
Children in low-opportunity neighborhoods face up to 20 times higher gun injury risk
Most hospitalizations for gun injuries among kids are the result of unintentional shootings
Sep 11, 2025
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Oncology & Cancer
AI matches dermatologists in assessing common skin cancer
A simple AI model has been shown to perform on a par with experienced dermatologists when assessing the aggressiveness of a common form of skin cancer, squamous cell carcinoma. The research was headed by the University of ...
Sep 12, 2025
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Stress in the strands: Hair offers clues to children's mental health
Long-term stress levels, measured through hair samples, may provide important clues about mental health risks in children with chronic physical illness (CPI), according to new research from the University of Waterloo.
Sep 15, 2025
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Oncology & Cancer
Review calls for age-specific immunotherapy in childhood brain tumors
Pediatric brain tumors are the deadliest form of childhood cancer, yet most treatments are adapted from adult care and often miss the mark. A new study led by a second-year medical student at Dell Medical School at The University ...
Sep 15, 2025
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Pediatrics
Trump's Medicaid cuts were aimed at 'able-bodied adults': Hospitals say kids will be hurt
Republicans insist that President Donald Trump's cuts to Medicaid were aimed at reducing fraud and getting more of its adult beneficiaries into jobs. But the side effects may include less care for sick kids.
Sep 15, 2025
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Pediatrics
Most Americans favor MMR vaccine requirement for public school, survey finds
Although Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted on social media in April that the "most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine," in a CBS News interview that month, he ...
Sep 15, 2025
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Neuroscience
Protein found in the eye and blood significantly associated with cognition scores
Neurocognitive impairments are classified by pathological changes with potential for destruction of neural tissue. One change known to occur in neurodegenerative disorders is an accumulation of proteins causing pathological ...
Sep 10, 2025
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Investigators pave the way for next-generation TB vaccine
Tuberculosis, or TB, an airborne bacterial respiratory infection, is one of humanity's oldest foes and is today the world's leading cause of death from infectious disease, claiming more than 1.2 million lives each year. The ...
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Gastroenterology
Understanding how dietary fiber improves metabolic health
New findings from researchers at UC Irvine show how a simple dietary change that increases fiber intake can reshape gut bacteria to prevent sugar from damaging the liver and causing disease.
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Oncology & Cancer
Promising drug combinations for immunotherapy-resistant melanoma may also help reactivate immune system
Researchers at Sutter's California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) in San Francisco, Calif. have identified potential new therapeutic strategies for patients with advanced melanoma who no longer respond to immunotherapy—an ...
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