Illinois committee recommends state part ways with feds on COVID-19 vaccines

Avocado toast with fried cheese as the bread and zucchini noodles in butter-bacon sauce are among the many recipe ideas fueling social media's beloved high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic, or keto diet. However, scientists have found that while keto can lead to limited weight gain and even weight loss, it does so at the cost of metabolic issues like glucose intolerance.

A recent study examined whether higher educational debt among physicians is associated with more hours worked per week and whether both are independently associated with burnout symptoms among early-career family physicians.

Researchers at Duke University have shown that blocking an enzyme involved in iron regulation not only kills multiple myeloma cancer cells, but also increases the effectiveness of current therapies against the disease. Their research was published on September 12 in the journal Blood.

A recent study tested whether a referral order inside the Epic electronic health record (EHR) could help primary care clinicians refer patients to community-based diabetes prevention programs (DPPs), an important public health strategy to reduce incident type 2 diabetes, and whether patients enrolled after referral.

Scientists from the University of Oslo (UiO), Akershus University Hospital (Ahus), and international partners have released a new expert opinion in Nature Aging. The article brings together more than 25 researchers from around the world, including clinicians and internationally recognized leaders in the biology of aging and metabolism, particularly in the study of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD⁺).

Fear of pain can deter some patients from choosing intrauterine devices (IUDs). In a study appearing in The Annals of Family Medicine, researchers investigated whether intrauterine device (IUD) insertion guided by ultrasound reduces procedure time and pain compared to conventional methods.

WHO has released a new landscape analysis that exposes critical gaps in global research and development (R&D) efforts related to cancer. The report reveals that despite rapid advancements in clinical research, investment and innovation are often misaligned with the greatest public health needs—leaving many of the world's most vulnerable populations behind.

Routine blood samples, such as those taken daily at any hospital and tracked over time, could help predict the severity of an injury and even provide insights into mortality after spinal cord damage, according to a recent University of Waterloo study.

Korean researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that oral bacteria, once colonized in the gut, can affect neurons in the brain and potentially trigger Parkinson's disease.

Air pollution may be harming children's eyesight with cleaner air helping to protect and even improve their vision—especially in younger children, a new study reveals.

Most children bounce back from pain after an injury or illness. But for one in five—approximately 877,000 children in Australia—the pain continues.

Researchers at Zhengzhou University report evidence that physical frailty is associated with dementia and that genetic background, brain structure, and immunometabolic function may mediate this link.

Place cells are specialized neurons in a brain region known as the hippocampus, which have been found to fire when animals are in specific locations. These cells don't fire randomly, but their activity is known to be organized by theta oscillations, which in rats means that they fire in sync with rhythmic brain waves between 7–9 Hz.

The US government has announced controversial guidance on the prevention and treatment of autism in children.

United States President Donald Trump has urged pregnant women to avoid paracetamol except in cases of extremely high fever, because of a possible link to autism.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently linked 25 unverified reports of child deaths to COVID-19 vaccines as they consider further limiting access to this and other immunizations, like those for hepatitis B and MMRV. But they aren't just playing politics. They are gambling with a quiet system that keeps Americans alive.

Minnesota's top doctor issued a standing order on Sept. 22 allowing pharmacists to give COVID-19 vaccines without prescriptions to a broader group of patients than federally recommended.

For decades, it was thought that while the brain orchestrated male sexual behavior—arousal, courtship, and copulation—the spinal cord merely executed the final act: ejaculation. But a study from the Champalimaud Foundation (CF) challenges that tidy division. It reveals that a key spinal circuit is not only involved in ejaculation but also in arousal and shaping the choreography of sex, adding a surprising new dimension to our understanding of sexual behavior in mammals.