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Pervasive patterns in bird songs resemble those in human speech and song and are independent of vocal learning
Science, Volume 394, Issue 6823, Page 556-561, October 2026.
Constructing the history of a contested region
Science, Volume 394, Issue 6823, Page 492-492, October 2026.
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Beyond distress relief: the Anhedonic Subtype of nonsuicidal self-injury and the imperative for Positive Affect Treatment
This perspective article argues that the theoretical landscape of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) has long been stabilized by the “hydraulic” model of Automatic Negative Reinforcement, which conceptualizes self-harm primarily as a mechanism to down-regulate aversive hyper-arousal. While this framework successfully elucidates…
Resonance across cultures and faiths: examining the violin music’s role in emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being for sustainable societies
Music is a decisive factor of the everyday life and the core focus of human being of any culture. People of all ages, races and ethnicities prefer to listen to it and play it. But music is not only entertainment…
Trends of incident stimulant use disorder diagnoses before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia (2013-2024): a population-based study
BackgroundThere is rising detection of unregulated stimulants (e.g. cocaine and methamphetamine) in toxicology results among people who died of unregulated drug poisoning. Nevertheless, little research describes the population-level trends of incident (new) stimulant use disorder (StUD) diagnoses. This study reports…
Newcomer anti-IL-33 makes strides in COPD
Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 07 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03136-xAstraZeneca’s IL-33 antibody tozorakimab targets two distinct signaling pathways engaged in COPD: inflammation and epithelial dysfunction.
ChatGPT Health triage advice falls short in key cases
Nature Medicine, Published online: 07 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04427-1ChatGPT Health showed high accuracy for moderately urgent conditions but frequently overtriaged mild cases and undertriaged emergencies. These findings highlight safety risks at clinical extremes, raising concerns about the reliability of AI tools…
Official leading CDC’s cruise ship program retires
The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius has focused the public's attention on cruise ship safety.
STAT+: More political interference at the FDA?
A political appointee gets in the way of a Sanofi drug's approval, and more from STAT's D.C. Diagnosis newsletter.
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Sanofi and an FDA voucher, FDA rethinking a rejection, and more
Sanofi asked the FDA to pull teplizumab out of a speedy review voucher program after a political appointee disagreed with staff over its approval
STAT+: FDA revisits a rare cancer treatment it rejected a few months ago
Secret drug pricing deals, a virtual AI cancer clinic, and other biotech news from The Readout
STAT+: OpenAI’s health policy wishlist, CGM news from Dexcom, and more
In this edition of STAT Health Tech: A health policy blueprint from OpenAI, CGM updates from Dexcom, and push back against whole body scans.
The Download: the tech reshaping IVF and the rise of balcony solar
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s next for IVF IVF has brought millions of babies into the world over the last…
The balcony solar boom is coming to the US
Dozens of US states are considering legislation to allow people to install plug-in solar systems, often called balcony solar. These small arrays require little to no setup and could help cut emissions and power bills. Balcony solar is already popular…
What’s next for IVF
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Forty-eight years ago this July, Louise Joy Brown became the world’s first…
[Articles] Who receives psychiatry-focused pharmacogenomic testing, and is it associated with prescribing patterns and acute care utilisation in depression? Real-world evidence from a large health system
In routine clinical practice, PGx testing is preferentially used in youth and adults with clinically complex histories and is associated with shifts in antidepressant prescribing patterns. Exploratory findings suggest hypothesis-generating signals of reduced psychiatric ED utilisation among patients with higher…
An Exploratory Study on the Prediction of Recurrence Risk of Bipolar Disorder Using Sentiment Analysis Technology Based on Multi-modal Feature Fusion
Conditions: Bipolar Disorder (BD); Healthy Control Interventions: Other: This is an observational study with no intervention. Sponsors: Shanghai Mental Health Center Recruiting
A Study of Seltorexant as Monotherapy in Adults and Elderly Participants With Major Depressive Disorder
Conditions: Depressive Disorder, Major Interventions: Drug: Seltorexant; Drug: Placebo Sponsors: Janssen Research & Development, LLC Not yet recruiting
Pupillometry in Identifying Risk of Postoperative Opioid-induced Respiratory Depression in Children Undergoing Tonsillectomy
Conditions: Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression; Postoperative Complications (Cardiopulmonary); Respiratory Complications Due to Anesthesia Interventions: Device: Infrared Pupillometry Sponsors: NeurOptics Inc; National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; University of California, San Francisco Not yet recruiting
tDCS: Sleep to Mood in Depression (S2M-D)
Conditions: Major Depressive Disorder; MDD; Depression; Major Depressive Episode Interventions: Device: transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) Sponsors: NYU Langone Health; Zabara Foundation Not yet recruiting
Oral small-molecule GLP-1 drugs penetrate deep into the brain to suppress cravings
NIH-funded research identifies new mechanism of action for next-generation weight-loss drugs
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Pervasive patterns in bird songs resemble those in human speech and song and are independent of vocal learning
Science, Volume 394, Issue 6823, Page 556-561, October 2026.
Constructing the history of a contested region
Science, Volume 394, Issue 6823, Page 492-492, October 2026.
News
3083 results
Beyond distress relief: the Anhedonic Subtype of nonsuicidal self-injury and the imperative for Positive Affect Treatment
This perspective article argues that the theoretical landscape of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) has long been stabilized by the “hydraulic” model of Automatic Negative Reinforcement, which conceptualizes self-harm primarily as a mechanism to down-regulate aversive hyper-arousal. While this framework successfully elucidates…
Resonance across cultures and faiths: examining the violin music’s role in emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being for sustainable societies
Music is a decisive factor of the everyday life and the core focus of human being of any culture. People of all ages, races and ethnicities prefer to listen to it and play it. But music is not only entertainment…
Trends of incident stimulant use disorder diagnoses before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia (2013-2024): a population-based study
BackgroundThere is rising detection of unregulated stimulants (e.g. cocaine and methamphetamine) in toxicology results among people who died of unregulated drug poisoning. Nevertheless, little research describes the population-level trends of incident (new) stimulant use disorder (StUD) diagnoses. This study reports…
Newcomer anti-IL-33 makes strides in COPD
Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 07 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03136-xAstraZeneca’s IL-33 antibody tozorakimab targets two distinct signaling pathways engaged in COPD: inflammation and epithelial dysfunction.
ChatGPT Health triage advice falls short in key cases
Nature Medicine, Published online: 07 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04427-1ChatGPT Health showed high accuracy for moderately urgent conditions but frequently overtriaged mild cases and undertriaged emergencies. These findings highlight safety risks at clinical extremes, raising concerns about the reliability of AI tools…
Official leading CDC’s cruise ship program retires
The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius has focused the public's attention on cruise ship safety.
STAT+: More political interference at the FDA?
A political appointee gets in the way of a Sanofi drug's approval, and more from STAT's D.C. Diagnosis newsletter.
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Sanofi and an FDA voucher, FDA rethinking a rejection, and more
Sanofi asked the FDA to pull teplizumab out of a speedy review voucher program after a political appointee disagreed with staff over its approval
STAT+: FDA revisits a rare cancer treatment it rejected a few months ago
Secret drug pricing deals, a virtual AI cancer clinic, and other biotech news from The Readout
STAT+: OpenAI’s health policy wishlist, CGM news from Dexcom, and more
In this edition of STAT Health Tech: A health policy blueprint from OpenAI, CGM updates from Dexcom, and push back against whole body scans.
The Download: the tech reshaping IVF and the rise of balcony solar
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s next for IVF IVF has brought millions of babies into the world over the last…
The balcony solar boom is coming to the US
Dozens of US states are considering legislation to allow people to install plug-in solar systems, often called balcony solar. These small arrays require little to no setup and could help cut emissions and power bills. Balcony solar is already popular…
What’s next for IVF
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Forty-eight years ago this July, Louise Joy Brown became the world’s first…
[Articles] Who receives psychiatry-focused pharmacogenomic testing, and is it associated with prescribing patterns and acute care utilisation in depression? Real-world evidence from a large health system
In routine clinical practice, PGx testing is preferentially used in youth and adults with clinically complex histories and is associated with shifts in antidepressant prescribing patterns. Exploratory findings suggest hypothesis-generating signals of reduced psychiatric ED utilisation among patients with higher…
An Exploratory Study on the Prediction of Recurrence Risk of Bipolar Disorder Using Sentiment Analysis Technology Based on Multi-modal Feature Fusion
Conditions: Bipolar Disorder (BD); Healthy Control Interventions: Other: This is an observational study with no intervention. Sponsors: Shanghai Mental Health Center Recruiting
A Study of Seltorexant as Monotherapy in Adults and Elderly Participants With Major Depressive Disorder
Conditions: Depressive Disorder, Major Interventions: Drug: Seltorexant; Drug: Placebo Sponsors: Janssen Research & Development, LLC Not yet recruiting
Pupillometry in Identifying Risk of Postoperative Opioid-induced Respiratory Depression in Children Undergoing Tonsillectomy
Conditions: Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression; Postoperative Complications (Cardiopulmonary); Respiratory Complications Due to Anesthesia Interventions: Device: Infrared Pupillometry Sponsors: NeurOptics Inc; National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; University of California, San Francisco Not yet recruiting
tDCS: Sleep to Mood in Depression (S2M-D)
Conditions: Major Depressive Disorder; MDD; Depression; Major Depressive Episode Interventions: Device: transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) Sponsors: NYU Langone Health; Zabara Foundation Not yet recruiting
Oral small-molecule GLP-1 drugs penetrate deep into the brain to suppress cravings
NIH-funded research identifies new mechanism of action for next-generation weight-loss drugs