A new frontier into advancing treatments for children and adults with bone marrow failure, leukaemia and other blood disorders will be achieved under a new partnership between Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and US biotechnology company Retro Biosciences. MCRI, a flagship member of the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct and the Melbourne arm of the international research consortium, the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW, has today announced a significant research and commercial licensing agreement with Retro Biosciences. The agreement will advance a blood ...

Propaganda is not simply a tool of manipulation, and in fact a professor of communication suggests it may even be a necessary skill for any citizen to address global challenges. After carrying out extensive research examining the role of mass persuasion in an era of viral videos, social media campaigns, and global messaging, Professor Nathan Crick says propaganda has become an inescapable part of modern life. In Propaganda: The Basics, Professor Crick suggests propaganda is not merely a tool of deception and instead should be understood as a fundamental aspect of mass communication in a technological society. Redefining propaganda for the digital ...

Press release    Under embargo until 05:01 BST/00:01 ET ‎19th May    Robots learning without us? New study cuts humans from early testing    Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study from the University of Surrey and the University of Hamburg.     The study, which will be presented at this year’s IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), introduces a new simulation ...

A powerful new short film, from the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Centre and RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences sheds light on the urgent need to address the impact of climate change on brain health. Produced in collaboration with the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Climate Change Commission, the film calls for urgent action to address the risks posed by rising global temperatures to people living with neurological conditions such as epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and dementia. The film features leading experts including Professor David ...

From cut flowers to felled timber, and from caught fish to butchered meat, we value nature most when it’s dead. But if we can change economic systems and mindsets in support of nature, our planet may start to recover – this is the message from a global team of experts. The authors warn that a lack of an economic and market value for the living natural world has given free rein for the exploitation and destruction of the environment, at a huge cost for animals, plants, Indigenous Peoples, and ultimately, all life on Earth. A forthcoming book, ...

About The Study: A new chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnostic schema integrating respiratory symptoms, respiratory quality of life, spirometry, and structural lung abnormalities on computed tomographic imaging newly classified some individuals as having COPD. These individuals had an increased risk of all-cause and respiratory-related death, frequent exacerbations, and rapid lung function decline compared with individuals classified as not having COPD. Some individuals with airflow obstruction ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:15 a.m., Sunday, May 18, 2025   Session: A20—Innovating Sleep Diagnostics: Emerging Approaches from Acoustics to Retinal Imaging Sensor-Based Digital Health Technology Enables Digital Medicine for Sleep-Related Breathing Diseases 
Date and Time: Sunday, May 18, 2025, 9:15 a.m. 
Location: Room 303 (South Building, Level 3), Moscone Center   ATS 2025, San Francisco – A wearable pulse oximeter and connected software platform show promise for monitoring obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and other sleep-related ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:15 a.m. PT/12:15 p.m. ET, Sunday, May 18, 2025 WAITLIST DEATHS DROPPED UNDER NEW LUNG TRANSPLANT ALLOCATION SYSTEM Session: A14—Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of ILD Improvement in Wait List Mortality for the Most Critically Ill Since the Implementation of the CAS Date and Time: Sunday, May 18, 2025, 9:15 a.m. Location:  Room 25, Hall E (North Building, Exhibition Level), Moscone Center   ATS 2025, San Francisco – Two years ago the United Network for Organ Sharing implemented new allocation guidelines for lung transplants that prioritize medical urgency. Now ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:15 a.m. PT/12:15 p.m. ET, Sunday, May 18, 2025 Session: A14—Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of ILD Methotrexate Versus Prednisone as First-line Treatment for Pulmonary Sarcoidosis: The Predmeth Trial 
Date and Time: Sunday, May 18, 2025, 9:15 a.m. 
Location: Room 25, Hall E (North Building, Exhibition Level), Moscone Center   ATS 2025, San Francisco – Prednisone is recommended as the first-line treatment for pulmonary sarcoidosis, but this steroid causes a number of unwanted side effects. Now new research published at the ATS 2025 International Conference finds that methotrexate provides ...

Belgrade, Serbia – 18 May 2025. Waist-to-height ratio predicts heart failure incidence, according to research presented today at Heart Failure 2025,1 a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).  Obesity affects a substantial proportion of patients with heart failure (HF) and it has been reported that the risk of HF increases as body mass index (BMI) increases.2 Study presenter, Dr. Amra Jujic from Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, explained why the current analysis was carried out: “BMI is the most common measure ...

Session:  A109—Smoke, Snooze, and ICU Blues: The Influence of Environmental Exposures and Critical Care Conditions on Sleep Rising Temperatures Are Associated with Increased Burden of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Date and Time: Sunday, May 18, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
 Location:  Room 2022/2024 (West Building, Level 2), Moscone Center   ATS 2025, San Francisco – Rising temperatures increase the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a large new study published at the ATS 2025 International Conference. The study also found that, under the most likely climate ...

LOS ANGELES — Surgeons from Keck Medicine of USC and UCLA Health have performed the world’s first-in-human bladder transplant. The surgery was successfully completed at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on May 4, 2025, in a joint effort by Inderbir Gill, MD, founding executive director of USC Urology, and Nima Nassiri, MD, urologic transplant surgeon and director of the UCLA Vascularized Composite Bladder Allograft Transplant Program.  Groundbreaking moment in medical history   “This surgery is a historic ...

If you have cancer, you expect to see an oncologist, but if you have heart failure you may or may not see a cardiologist. According to research published in the European Heart Journal [1] today (Sunday), only around three out of five heart failure patients see a cardiologist at least once a year.   The study, also presented at Heart Failure Congress 2025, shows that patients who do see a cardiologist once a year are around 24% less likely to die in the following year. It also shows which patients could benefit from seeing a cardiologist once a year and which patients should be seen more often.   The ...

Belgrade, Serbia – 17 May 2025. An artificial intelligence-enabled electrocardiogram-based algorithm performed well in the early detection of heart failure among healthcare-seeking individuals in Kenya, according to late-breaking research presented today at Heart Failure 2025,1 a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).  Heart failure is highly prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa, where patients are often younger and face worse outcomes than in high-income countries.2 Explaining the rationale for ...

Belgrade, Serbia – 17 May 2025. A pharmaceutically produced cannabidiol formulation had a good overall safety profile, including cardiac safety, according to research presented today at Heart Failure 2025,1 a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).  Currently, there are limited treatment options for inflammatory conditions of the heart, such as myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart). Cannabidiol – which lacks the psychotropic effects of cannabis – has been shown to inhibit activation of the inflammasome pathway,2 an intracellular ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have solved a long-standing mystery behind the drainage of liquid from foams. Standard physics models wildly overestimate the height of foams required for liquid to drain out the bottom. Through careful observation, the team found that the limits are set by the pressure required to rearrange bubbles, not simply push liquid through a static set of obstacles. Their approach highlights the importance of dynamics to understanding soft materials.   When you spray a foam on a wall, ...

Materials with self-adaptive mechanical responses have long been sought after in material science. Using computer simulations, researchers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Hyderabad, now show how such adaptive behavior can emerge in active glasses, which are widely used as models for biological tissues. The findings provide new insights—ranging from how cells might regulate their glassiness to aiding in the design of new metamaterials. Glasses (or amorphous solids) are materials whose components ...

Laser Ion acceleration uses intense laser flashes to heat electrons of a solid to enormous temperatures and propel these charged particles to extreme speeds. These have recently gained traction for applications in selectively destroying cancerous tumor cells, in processing semiconductor materials, and due to their excellent properties - for imaging and fusion relevant conditions. Massive laser systems with several Joules of light energy are needed to irradiate solids for the purpose. This produces a flash of ions which are accelerated to extreme speeds. Thus, emulating large million volt accelerators is possible ...

University of Cambridge media release   Life, death and mowing – study reveals Britain’s poetic obsession with the humble lawnmower   UNDER STRICT EMBARGO UNTIL 00:01AM (UK TIME) ON SATURDAY 17TH MAY 2025   Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a ‘lawnmower poetry microgenre’, using the machine to explore childhood, masculinity, violence, addiction, mortality and much more, new research shows.   The study, published today in Critical Quarterly, argues that the tradition goes back to the 17th-century poet Andrew Marvell who used mowing – with a scythe – to comment ...

NEW ORLEANS – Ochsner Health proudly shares its kidney transplant program, part of the Ochsner Transplant Institute, has been awarded ELITE Status within the credentialed Programs of Excellence transplant network by INTERLINK COE Networks & Programs. ELITE Status is awarded to only a select few programs nationwide certifying delivery of superior transplant care.   To earn this level of recognition, programs demonstrate superior results and exceptional performance based on a range of validated, risk-adjusted metrics. Programs with this designation achieve an INTERLINK Performance Model score statistically ...

About The Study: In this cohort study, women primary care physicians in value-based payment models had equal or better quality outcomes and higher value-based earnings compared to men in their practice groups. These results substantiate prior evidence that women physicians perform better on process and outcome measures, yet receive incommensurate patient ratings. The reversal of the gender gap under value-based payment is likely due to fewer emergency department visits and hospitalizations among women primary care physicians’ patients and may in turn reflect better alignment of value-based models to practice patterns more ...

By Chris Woolston If you’re anxious about work, finances, the state of the world, or anything else, you might try a moment of mindfulness. Paying close attention to the present moment without judgment — the basic idea behind all mindfulness techniques — can help calm anxiety and improve focus, said Resh Gupta, a postdoctoral research associate with the Mindfulness Science and Practice research cluster.  “A lot of research has shown that mindfulness can reduce anxiety symptoms,” she said. The calming power of mindfulness is well-known to people ...

People with cancer, heart disease and other conditions have come to expect treatments that their medical teams “personalize” just for them, based on tests. But care for mental health conditions hasn’t gotten to that point yet. Now, a new study suggests that it might be possible to personalize care for people with bipolar disorder, using the results of detailed personality tests. The research finds that such tests might help identify people who have certain combinations of personality traits ...

TAMPA, Fla. (May 16, 2025) — In the largest clinical genomic profiling study of non-Hispanic Black men with metastatic prostate cancer to date, researchers from Moffitt Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, University of California Los Angeles and the Veterans Affairs (VA) National Precision Oncology Program found key differences in tumor biology between non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic white veterans, but similar survival outcomes when both groups had equal access to care. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, analyzed data from more than 5,000 U.S. ...

Necati Catbas doesn’t hold a medical degree, but the UCF engineering professor is more than qualified to diagnose the health of bridges using a combination of emerging technologies. Catbas collaborated with his former civil engineering student Marwan Debees ’23PhD, who now works as a NASA Bridge Program manager, on newly published research that details how infrared thermography, high-definition imaging and neural network analysis can combine to make concrete bridge inspections more efficient. Catbas and Debees are hopeful that their findings, recently published in the Transportation Research Record, can be leveraged by engineers ...