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Emergency departments across Illinois identify gaps in care for children in mental health

When a child is experiencing a mental health crisis, families increasingly turn to the emergency department for help. While hospitals across Illinois are making progress in caring for these children, they face significant challenges, especially limited access to specialists and l

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New comprehensive data platform could transform Alzheimer's research, treatment

With an increasingly aging global population and no available preventive treatments, Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are poised to become an even larger public health challenge. The mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's disease are difficult to study because the disease has

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Long-term exposure to air pollution linked to increased risk of Parkinson's disease

Long-term exposure to certain types of air pollution is linked to an increased risk of Parkinson's disease, Cambridge researchers have found in a critical review of the existing evidence.

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Early access to a cardiac surgical hospital linked to shorter hospitalization for newborns

Congenital heart defects are the most common birth defects in the United States. For newborns with the most severe defects—those needing lifesaving intervention—later transfer to a cardiac surgical center is linked to longer hospitalization compared with those born at a surgical

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New model reveals how disability caregiving reshapes parents' lives over decades

Researchers are sounding the alarm on the long-term impact of caring for children with developmental disabilities in the absence of proper societal supports across the life course. A new conceptual study, published in the Journal of Family Theory & Review, proposes a new model fo

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Commonly used drugs show small benefit for long COVID fatigue

Over-the-counter antihistamines and a prescription anti-inflammatory drug both have a small benefit in reducing long COVID fatigue among people receiving care from specialist long COVID clinics, according to new findings from a large clinical trial led by UCL and UCLH.

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Sleep problems in dementia care are linked more to emotional well-being than fear of falli

While fear of falling has long been linked to poor sleep among older adults, new research from George Mason University suggests that emotional well-being may be an even stronger predictor of sleep quality for people with dementia and the spouses who care for them. In what is beli

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Womb fluid infusions help fetuses with kidney failure survive after birth

Women diagnosed early in pregnancy with a fetus lacking adequate kidney function to make the urine that serves as vital amniotic fluid have long faced virtually no chance of the fetus's survival after birth.

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Long-term stroke data reveal stem cell therapy's safety, biological activity over years

Previously unpublished long-term clinical and imaging findings from participants treated with an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived neural progenitor cell therapy for chronic ischemic stroke were presented at the ISSCR 2026 Annual Meeting.

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GLP-1 agonists may help people with diabetes and long COVID, study in mice suggests

GLP-1 agonists have become popular treatments for weight loss and type 2 diabetes, and newer studies suggest other health benefits as well. Findings from experiments on mice, published in the Journal of Virology, suggest that the drugs may offer benefits to another patient popula

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New mechanism explains how nerve cells form one long output branch

DZNE researchers have uncovered a mechanism that determines why a neuron usually forms a single, long extension called an "axon"—a phenomenon that is fundamental to how our brain functions. Contrary to the common view that external cues drive axon formation, the team of scientist

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Low-oxygen treatment helped diseased mice live three times longer. Could humans benefit?

Oxygen isn't always a good thing. Of course, people—and most organisms—cannot live without it. But oxygen can also be quite toxic and lead to profound health consequences.

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