MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, April 9 (TNSjou) -- The American Academy of Neurology issued the following news release: * * * Healthier plant-based diet associated with lower risk of Alzheimer's, other dementias Lower risk found even among those who adopted the diet at an older age Highlights * Eating a healthful plant-based diet is associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer's and other dementias, while eating an unhealthful plant-based diet is associated with a higher risk. * The study does not   more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee posted the following news release: * * * IN THE STATES: "Devastating" GOP Medicaid Cuts "Hit Rural Hospitals Particularly Hard," "Force Reductions" in Services, & Increase "Risk of Closure" Families across the country are feeling the consequences of the "devastating" Medicaid cuts backed by Republican Senate candidates as rural hospitals begin to cut back on services and face "serious financial problems" that are putting many  more

LONDON, England, April 9 -- GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline), a biopharmaceutical company, issued the following news release: * * * Exdensur (depemokimab) approved in China for the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) * Exdensur is the first and only ultra-long-acting biologic in China for CRSwNP * Approval based on ANCHOR trials showing clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvements in nasal polyp size and nasal obstruction * Patients with CRSwNP   more

HOKKAIDO, Japan, April 8 (TNSjou) -- Hokkaido University issued the following news release: * * * Outdoor environmental exposures and Kawasaki disease: scoping review synthesizes global epidemiological evidence Review of the global literature suggests Kawasaki disease may be linked to outdoor environmental exposures, with the most consistent signals for long-term or prenatal particulate matter and airborne biological agents, and mixed findings for meteorology and short-term air pollution that  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, April 9 (TNSjou) -- Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, issued the following news release: * * * A night of two national titles for U-M, as scientists and basketball players both triumph Team from Frankel Cardiovascular Center wins the STAT Madness virtual tournament for their work to understand and prevent deadly aortic aneurysms * Just hours after the University of Michigan men's basketball team won their national tournament,   more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The Senate Special Committee on Aging released the following testimony by Jason J. Fichtner, senior fellow at the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a senior policy fellow of the Center for Social Development at the Washington University in St. Louis Brown School, from a March 25, 2026, hearing entitled "Experience Matters: Seniors and the Workforce": * * * Good morning, Chairman Scott, Ranking Member Gillibrand, and members of the committee. Thank you for invitin  more

BRISBANE, Australia, April 8 (TNSjou) -- The Queensland University of Technology issued the following news: * * * Children's asthma hospitalisations across Queensland show striking disparities over two decades Children's asthma hospitalisations in Queensland vary greatly depending on season, location and child's age and sex, according to a comprehensive QUT study that analysed 20 years of asthma admissions for those aged 0-19 years. * Hot desert and arid regions consistently showed the high  more

NEW YORK, April 8 -- The City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy posted the following news release: * * * Researchers urge stronger safeguards for health and medical science information * Editorial calls for greater responsibility in protecting the quality and integrity of scientific information amid rising technological and political pressures New York, NY | April 8, 2026: Editors of 20 medical, scientific, and health journals have published a joint   more

WASHINGTON, April 8 [Category: Medical] -- Optica, formerly the Optical Society, posted the following news release: * * * Researchers use lasers to turn leather into wearable power Eco-friendly, one-step method creates flexible microsupercapacitors for sustainable wearable electronics * WASHINGTON -Researchers have developed a simple and eco-friendly way to use a laser to turn natural leather into flexible and wearable energy devices. The new approach could lay the groundwork for more sust  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 9 (TNSjou) -- The UCLA Health issued the following news release: * * * Self-employed Hispanic women may be at lower risk for cardiovascular disease compared with their salaried counterparts Self-employed Hispanic women report less high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, poor health and binge drinking compared to Hispanic women working for salary or wages, new research suggests. The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Ethnicity & Disease (https://d  more

GALLOWAY, New Jersey, April 8 -- Stockton University posted the following news: * * * Spotlight On: Anthony Dissen * Galloway, N.J. -Anthony Dissen, assistant professor of Health Science at Stockton, was speaking to a group of nutrition and dietetics graduate students in Michigan about LGBTQIA+ health disparities when something clicked. "One of the students asked where they could learn more about the subject," Dissen said. "At the time, there wasn't a single resource that brought all of th  more

CEDARVILLE, Ohio, April 8 -- Cedarville University posted the following news: * * * Treating More Than Wounds: Paper Calls for Mental Health Care in ASD Cases By Rachel Ward, Student Public Relations Writer Artefactual skin disorder (ASD) can leave patients with severe, self-inflicted wounds they may deny causing, making diagnosis and treatment complex for physicians. Cedarville University pharmacy student Thurein Zan collaborated with medical students in Germany and Poland on research outl  more