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ThursdayJul 24, 2025 10:00 am

Global Vaccination Goals at Risk as 14 Million Kids Miss Crucial Shots

Latest UN data indicates that at least 14 million kids didn’t receive life-saving shots of vaccines against tetanus, whooping cough and diphtheria in 2024. This threatens the attainment of global vaccination goals. The data shows that over two-thirds of children categorized as “zero-dose” kids (those who didn’t receive a single dose of the needed vaccinations) were in low-income and middle-income countries around the world. In 2024, approximately 115 million kids got at least a dose of the DTP vaccine against diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus. This accounted for 89% of all infants around the world. 85% of the kids who got…

TuesdayJul 22, 2025 10:00 am

Unexpected Finding Potentially Opens the Door to Universal Vaccines Against Cancer

A team of researchers testing an experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine managed to ramp up the ability of immunotherapy to combat tumors in a study using mouse models. This finding potentially brings scientists one step closer to developing universal vaccines that can supercharge the immune system in its fight against cancer. The team, based at University of Florida, found that using the test vaccine together with immune checkpoint inhibitors had the effect of strengthening the immune system’s ability to reduce or even eliminate tumors in the mice. What the researchers found surprising was that the anticancer effect was triggered even…

FridayJul 18, 2025 10:00 am

Individuals Who Develop Multiple Sclerosis Have More Doctor Visits Decades Before Their Diagnosis

A new study has found that individuals who are later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) tend to visit their doctor more, are admitted to hospitals more, and visit emergency rooms more frequently decades before they are eventually diagnosed with MS in comparison to those who don’t develop the condition. This often happens more than 20 years before an MS diagnosis is made. These findings were made by researchers in Canada who used healthcare data from Ontario, the country’s province with the largest population. The study was funded by MS Canada and the National MS Society. The team conducted a retrospective…

ThursdayJul 17, 2025 10:00 am

Study Provides Valuable Insights About Non-Smokers Who Develop Lung Cancer

Lung cancer, one of the most common types of cancer, has for a long time been known to largely develop among smokers. However, recent studies have established that around one quarter of people diagnosed with lung cancer has never smoked. This has baffled the scientific community as there was no clear explanation why such a significant proportion of lung cancer patients didn’t have a history of smoking. A study has now provided key insights into the factors that could predispose many non-smokers to the development of lung cancer. This study was published in the journal Nature early this month. The…

TuesdayJul 15, 2025 10:00 am

KFF Poll Reveals the Challenges Americans Face in Meeting Their Healthcare Costs

Recent polling by KFF has provided insights into the numerous challenges that Americans face in meeting their health care costs. The poll, conducted in May and whose findings were published in June this year, shows that one of the major worries that American families face is having unexpected medical bills to pay. From the poll, the research team found that nearly half of all adults in the U.S. find it difficult to afford their health care costs. 1-in-4 of those polled also revealed that they or a member of their household had experienced problems in meeting their health care costs…

TuesdayJul 08, 2025 10:00 am

Preclinical Study Finds a Way to Reverse Symptoms of Parkinson’s in Mice

University of Sydney researchers have, for the first time ever, targeted a malfunctioning protein in mice having symptoms akin to Parkinson’s symptoms and successfully improved motor function in the mice. This breakthrough finding could open the door to finding a similar way to treat Parkinson’s disease in humans. For more than 10 years, the team worked to establish the biological mechanisms which underpin Parkinson’s. Their interest was in uncovering new ways to slow the progression of the disease or even treat it. In 2017, they published research documenting SOD1 protein abnormalities within the brain and showed that these abnormalities were…

MondayJul 07, 2025 9:05 am

20 States File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration for Releasing Medicaid Data to DHS

Rob Bonta, the Attorney General of California, revealed on Tuesday that 20 states have filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s release of private Medicaid data to deportation personnel in June. The shared data affects millions of people enrolled in Medicaid. Advisers to the HHS Secretary ordered CMS officials to release private data, including names, immigration status, social security numbers, addresses, as well as claims data by those enrollees in several jurisdictions, such as Washington State, Illinois, Washington, D.C., and California to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The states included in the data sharing request were selected because those…

ThursdayJul 03, 2025 10:00 am

Study Discovers Genetic Mutation that Makes Solid Tumors Unresponsive to Immunotherapy

While studying why non-human primates aren’t as likely to suffer from certain cancers when compared to humans, UC Davis scientists discovered a genetic mutation that could explain this anomaly. Their findings were published in the Nature Communications journal. This discovery could open the door to the development of more powerful treatments for cancer. The researchers focused on Fas Ligand, an immune protein that helps in attacking tumor cells. This protein is present in both human and non-human primates like chimpanzees. The scientists discovered that in humans, a small mutation makes FasL to be easily deactivated by a tumor-linked enzyme called…

TuesdayJul 01, 2025 10:00 am

Research Finds That Pesticides Disrupt Inflammation-Linked Bacteria

Existing scientific information shows that pesticides are toxic to the microorganisms in the gut, and a new preclinical study has mapped the specific impacts that compounds in pesticides have on microbes in the human digestive system. One surprising finding emerged regarding how these pesticide compounds affect the inflammatory system in the body. The Ohio State University team of researchers conducted an analysis aimed at establishing the specific ways in which different active ingredients in pesticides impact the ways in which bacteria in the gut grow and how the affected bacteria alter the ways in which nutrients are processed in the…

FridayJun 27, 2025 10:00 am

Research Links Key Proteins to the Growth of Brain Tumors

University of Plymouth researchers in the UK have identified the proteins that underlie the growth and development of common brain tumors. Their findings could, in the long run, trigger the development of new treatments which are less invasive. Through investigations undertaken at labs at the Plymouth Science Park, PhD students, together with other scientists studied the molecular subtypes of tumors called meningiomas. They found that ANXA3, a type of protein, was a key driver behind the growth of some meningioma cells. By inhibiting the functioning of these proteins, the team was able to slow down, and in some instances, altogether…