The Trump administration has reportedly disrupted over 100 clinical trials. Science News spoke to researchers about the impacts on four of them.
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Clinical trials face uncertain futures amid Trump cuts
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Novel Immune Cell Type Prevents Food Allergies
Food allergies are slowly increasing within first world countries. According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), 8% of children and 11% of adults are affected by food allergies in America. Allergic reactions to food occur when the body’s immune system recognizes specific foods as foreign. As a result, the immune system builds a response and reacts. Reactions can range from mild to severe and include symptoms such as…
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UnitedHealth Group Profits Hit $6 Billion But Warns Of Rising Medicare Costs
UnitedHealth Group’s 2025 first quarter profits eclipsed $6 billion but the nation’s largest health … More
UnitedHealth Group’s first quarter profits eclipsed $6 billion but the…
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‘Probably Needed A Hug’ Trends On TikTok. Here’s What It Shows
People have been posting videos on TikTok using the catchphrase “probably needed a hug” to show … More
In the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer, one of the characters Sammy explained, “What I’m saying is all I really want is someone to hold me and tell me that everything is going to be all right.” Well, there’s a TikTok trend and hashtag, #probablyneededahug, that’s…
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Golden eyes: How gold nanoparticles may one day help to restore people’s vision
A new study by Brown University researchers suggests that gold nanoparticles — microscopic bits of gold thousands of times thinner than a human hair — might one day be used to help restore vision in people with macular degeneration and other retinal disorders.
In a study published in the journal ACS Nano and supported by the National Institutes of Health, the research team showed that nanoparticles injected into the retina can successfully stimulate the visual system and restore vision in…
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How do age, sex, hormones and genetics affect dementia biomarkers in the blood?
A new study has found important clues about the roles age, sex, hormonal changes and genetics play in how certain biomarkers for dementia are expressed in the blood, according to a study published on April 16, 2025, online in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
“Blood tests that detect biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are emerging and as these tests are further developed, they are becoming important tools for understanding and…
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Discovery of FOXR2 activation in various brain tumors refines diagnosis to improve care
Physicians classify brain tumors and determine treatment options, in part, by the genes they express. According to World Health Organization standards, the abnormal activation of oncogene FOXR2 only occurs in central nervous system (CNS) neuroblastoma, but that may not be true. Findings from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital show FOXR2 activation in multiple pediatric CNS tumor types, mostly brain tumors, with significantly different clinical outcomes. The potentially practice-changing…
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Researchers report association between urinary incontinence, cardiovascular disease
A University of Iowa-led research team has found that urinary incontinence may be associated with a greater risk for cardiovascular disease in women.
Urinary incontinence — the loss of bladder control — is a common condition, especially in older adults. Previous studies have stated that it can affect between 38% and 60% of women. The researchers aimed to find out whether urinary incontinence was linked to a decline in physical activity, which can lead to a host of health issues, including…
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Structural images of a tuberculosis-fighting virus
Mycobacteria are the world’s most deadly bacteria — causing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these infections are desperately needed, as the number of cases of antibiotic-resistant mycobacteria is on the rise.
Scientists at Scripps Research and the University of Pittsburgh have now used advanced imaging techniques to provide a detailed look at how a tiny virus, known as a phage, invades…
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Menopause at an early age can exacerbate cognitive decline
A team of researchers from the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine and Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science found that women who entered menopause before the age of 40 had worse cognitive outcomes than women who entered menopause after the age of 50. This finding may be useful for clinicians, when assessing their patient’s risk of developing dementia.
These findings were published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association on April 15,…
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