Medical Awareness & Prevention

A USC-led study of 29 epilepsy patients found more abnormal immature astroglia were associated with lower fluid-intelligence test scores.

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• October 21, 2026

The FDA granted accelerated approval to dostarlimab for certain stage II/III dMMR/MSI-H rectal cancers, with the aim of helping some patients avoid surgery.

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• October 20, 2026

A mouse study links STING activity in bone marrow macrophages to age-related bone loss, but prevention in people remains untested.

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• October 16, 2026

A French ICU trial stopped early after initial intermittent dialysis was linked to higher 90-day mortality than continuous therapy in acute kidney injury.

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• October 15, 2026

A Hong Kong study of 15,576 older adults found moderate or severe vision impairment was associated with higher dementia risk over follow-up.

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• October 13, 2026

A randomized phase I/II trial found a bimatoprost-releasing lens noninferior to timolol drops for lowering eye pressure after cataract surgery.

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• October 13, 2026

A preliminary model estimates better hypertension control could avert 518,476 cardiovascular deaths annually across 20 middle-income countries.

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• October 12, 2026

A study mapped immune aging across 2,609 adults and linked a granzyme B-dominant blood profile with higher later risks of chronic disease and death.

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• October 11, 2026

A study of 316,542 South Korean adults found associations between unusually low or high hemoglobin and later dementia diagnoses, but not causation.

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• October 11, 2026

An ARPA-H-backed project will measure aggregation across 50,000 proteins and use the data to train AI to predict early dysfunction.

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• October 10, 2026