Credit: Matthias Zomer from Pexels The Coroners Court of Victoria is undertaking an inquest into the deaths of eight aged care residents across six facilities, over a nine-month period in…
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Single-dose CAR-T therapy potentially curative in multiple myeloma
Micrograph of a plasmacytoma, the histologic correlate of multiple myeloma. H&E stain. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 A multi-institutional study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reports…
Food-oriented LLM tackles data challenges to advance nutritional applications
The potential applications of the proposed food-oriented LLM FoodSky to different populations in different scenarios. Credit: Min Weiqing’s Group Researchers from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy…
Can pediatric e-consults improve access to specialty care?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There is a nationwide shortage of pediatric specialists, delaying care for many patients. In some cases, children wait weeks or even months for appointments. But now,…
How the brain distinguishes between ambiguous hypotheses
Recurrent neural dynamics can be used to navigate through locally ambiguous landmarks by forming and employing multimodal hypotheses. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01944-z When navigating a place that we’re…
Statins may reduce risk of death by 39% for patients with life-threatening sepsis, large study finds
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Sepsis is when the immune system overshoots its inflammatory reaction to an infection, so strongly that the vital organs begin to shut down. It is life-threatening:…
Ivory Coast announces cholera outbreak after 7 deaths
Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae. Credit: Wikipedia Ivory Coast announced a cholera outbreak on Thursday, confirming seven deaths from the disease. Daniel Kouadio Ekra, head of the National…
Study shows how obesity can affect care provision
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study has found that older adults living with obesity can feel judged or dismissed by care providers due to their weight, leading to a…
Diabetes drug shows benefits for patients with liver disease
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor drug dapagliflozin, widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, also shows improvements for patients with progressive liver disease, finds…
Baby’s microbiome may protect against later childhood viral infection
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A baby’s makeup of gut bacteria—their microbiome—which starts to form as soon as they are born, could help protect against viral infections later in childhood, a…
