The federal covid-19 pandemic protections that have largely prohibited states from dropping anyone from Medicaid since 2020 helped millions of low-income Americans retain health insurance coverage — even if they no longer qualified — and brought the U.S. uninsured rate to a record low. It also led to a windfall for the health plans that states pay to oversee care […]

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International Women’s Day celebrates the achievements made by women while recognizing the need for even greater equality worldwide. In that spirit, find out how you can connect with and help support women, mothers and girls across the globe. While many of us work hard to help the communities around us, and support women and families nearby, it can be more […]

A shot of a liver-produced hormone called FGF21 sobered up mice that had passed out from alcohol, allowing them to regain consciousness and coordination much faster than those that didn't receive this treatment, UT Southwestern researchers report in a new study. The findings, published in Cell Metabolism, could lead to effective treatments for acute alcohol intoxication, which is responsible for […]

Metastatic breast cancer has no cure and has proven stubbornly resistant to one of the most innovative and promising new cancer treatments: immunotherapy. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a way to treat the area surrounding breast tumors that have spread to bone so that such tumors become vulnerable to attack by the […]

Previous studies have reported high rates of death by suicide and drug overdose—including opioid overdose—in military service members with a history of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). A new study finds that those risks are highest among military members with mTBI who identify their racial/ethnic status as “Other,” as opposed to standard racial/ethnic categories. The study is published in the […]

SARS-CoV-2 infects and causes damage to multiple organs in COVID-19 patients. In particular, liver damage has been associated with COVID-19 severity. However, an understanding of the liver pathophysiology of these patients remains largely incomplete. To investigate this pathophysiology, the group developed liver models that mimic the liver around blood vessels or bile ducts using organ-on-a-chip technology. Human hepatocytes and cholangiocytes […]

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are important immature blood cells in bone marrow that can be triggered to develop into any blood cell type. HSC transplants can be used to treat conditions where bone marrow is damaged and no longer able to produce healthy blood cells, but the widespread and safe use of HSCs is limited by barriers to cell growth […]

The most common type of brain cyst (arachnoid) has no known cause. New research investigating patients with these cysts has found something unexpected—a potential genetic link. A team led by Yale University School of Medicine has gathered health history and exome data (sequences from all the protein-coding genes) from 617 trios—children with confirmed cases of arachnoid cysts and their parents—along […]

A team of researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), co-led by Professor Daniel G. Tenen and Associate Professor Polly Chen Leilei, made an unprecedented discovery of a hitherto unappreciated mechanism leading to ADAR2 (adenosine deaminases acting on RNA) dysregulation in core binding factor acute myelogenous leukemias (CBF-AML), and highlighted […]