Browsing: research

Connecticut lawmakers advanced several initiatives this year designed toexpand access to women’s health services and improve care statewide. This includes boosting research on endometriosis, establishing foundational toolkits for providers,public awareness campaigns and more. 

Rising incidence rates for some types of cancer highlight the need to use data from a variety of organizations’ health records

Samples are being created for protein analysis in a lab where UT Southwestern researchers are looking for potential therapeutic targets for metabolic diseases.

Recent research from Sweden offers promising news in the fight against dementia: an anti-inflammatory diet may substantially decrease the risk of developing dementia, even among individuals showing early biological signs of Alzheimer’s disease. This is a significant discovery given the growing global prevalence of dementia and Alzheimer’s, two of the most challenging neurological conditions facing…

The University of Cambridge has received US$34.5 million from philanthropist K Lisa Yang to support autism research aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of autistic people and their families. The gift is one of the largest ever philanthropic gifts for autism research to a UK university

At Health Journalism 2026, a session focused on producing effective data-driven climate stories examined how recent climate shifts pose heightened health risks for communities across the globe

Rare diseases, individually uncommon but collectively significant, affect fewer than five in 10,000 people per condition. However, with over 7,000 identified rare diseases, the combined impact is substantial – touching around 3.5 million people in the UK and more than 300 million worldwide. This scale underlines the critical need for global partnerships to accelerate both…