Years of Higher Weight Linked to Faster Decline in Memory and Thinking
Drawing on more than two decades of national survey data, Dr. Suhang Song's team found that a higher long-term average body mass index was linked with faster declines in memory and thinking in middle-aged and older Americans.
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Evening Phone Calls After Cataract Surgery Calm and Reassure Patients
Professor Oliver Findl’s team found that patients phoned shortly after cataract surgery were highly satisfied with the call, and that a call on the evening of the operation may reassure them most.
Pandemic Moves to the Countryside Strained Housing in Rural Northeast Towns
Dr. Omur Damla Kuru’s team found that when city dwellers moved to rural Northeast towns during the pandemic, housing could not keep up, prices climbed and lower-income residents bore the heaviest burden.
Common HIV Drug Linked to Lower Levels of an Untreatable Virus
Professor Carlos Brites’ team found that people with both HIV and HTLV-1 who took the HIV drug dolutegravir carried markedly less HTLV-1 in their blood than people infected with HTLV-1 alone.
- Health & MedicineOctober 29, 2026
Catheter Inside a Catheter Helps Doctors Enter Hard-to-Reach Heart Arteries
- Health & MedicineOctober 29, 2026
Small Study Suggests Meditation May Ease Depression and Poor Sleep in Glaucoma
- Life SciencesOctober 28, 2026
Your Immune System Learns and Remembers in Ways That Echo the Brain
- Mind & SocietyOctober 28, 2026
From Training to Openness: How Hands-On Training Changed Social Workers’ Attitudes Toward Forced Migrants
- EnvironmentOctober 16, 2026
Plant-Based Biopesticides Tested Against a Fungal Rot of Harvested Mangoes
- Health & MedicineOctober 14, 2026
Larger Fat Cells Linked to How the Body Handles Fat After Meals
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Combining two types of stem cells could help women with failing ovaries
Professor Aleksandar Ljubić's team reviews early evidence that combining mesenchymal and blood-forming stem cells may help restore ovarian function in premature ovarian insufficiency, while stressing safety risks.
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Enzyme TREX2 causes most mutations in lab-grown cells lacking mismatch repair
Professor Paul Hasty's team found that the enzyme TREX2 drives most spontaneous mutations in lab-grown mouse stem cells and human cancer cells lacking mismatch repair, and removing it cut mutations.
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