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Open Letter to the European Council: Protecting ESF and ERDF
Open Letter to the European Council: Protecting ESF and ERDF: building on what works for people and regions Brussels, Belgium – 19 June 2026 Dear President Costa, dear Presidents, dear […] The post Open…
Joint statement: Council of Europe takes a positive step on autonomy in mental health care
We applaud the adoption of the Recommendation on respect of autonomy in mental healthcare by the Council of Europe on the 17th of June. The post Joint statement: Council of Europe takes a positive…
West Midlands NHS imaging programme enters procurement
An NHS imaging transformation programme serving 6.6 million people across the West Midlands has entered procurement.
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STAT+: Access granted: CMS greenlights more than 150 participants for chronic care experiment
CMS greenlights more than 150 digital health companies for its ACCESS experiment, a new program for tech-backed chronic care with outcome-aligned payments.
STAT+: Trump goes soft on insurance, and a medical underwriting chart
President Trump vowed to take on health insurers, but his policies tell a different story.
Why opinion on AI is so divided
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In an industry that doesn’t stand still, Stanford’s AI Index, an annual roundup of key results and…
A novel behavioral paradigm using mice to study predictive postural control
Postural control circuitry performs the essential function of maintaining balance and body position in response to perturbations that are either self-generated (e.g., reaching to pick up an object) or externally delivered (e.g., being pushed by another person). Human studies have…
From peripheral initiation to central integration: a narrative review of the antihypertensive mechanisms of acupuncture in regulating autonomic nervous system homeostasis
Essential Hypertension (EH) is one of the most prevalent chronic cardiovascular diseases, imposing a significant burden on healthcare systems worldwide due to its high rates of disability and mortality. Long-term elevation of blood pressure leads to multi-organ damage in the…
Acute aerobic exercise modulates resting-state EEG microstate dynamics in individuals with internet addiction
Internet addiction (IA) is associated with impaired cognitive control and altered large-scale brain dynamics. Electroencephalogram (EEG) microstates provide a sensitive index of rapid neural network organization; however, whether acute aerobic exercise can modulate abnormal microstate dynamics in individuals with IA…
In silico exploration of electric field distribution in tDCS: integrating white matter anisotropy and subject-specific structural connectivity
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive neuromodulation technique with promising application in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders. However, its effectiveness is often limited by the high inter-subject variability of the induced effects, mainly attributable to individual…
Causal network analysis-based assessment of gray matter alteration in post-radiotherapy nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients using 3D T1-weighted MRI
ObjectivesTo explore the temporal and causal relationships underlying brain structural changes in post-radiotherapy (RT) nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients.MethodsA total of 38 post-radiotherapy NPC patients (33 males, 5 females; median age: 50.0 years, range: 27–63 years; median time post-RT: 17.2 months,…
ASYM: multimodal depression recognition via mamba-enhanced attentive feature fusion
IntroductionDepression is a prevalent mental disorder with a severe global impact. Traditional interview-based assessments are limited by subjectivity, lengthy procedures, and unequal access to care. Although advances in AI have facilitated multimodal models for depression detection—using audiovisual data as an…
Adverse childhood experiences and the risk of non-suicidal self-injury: a meta-analysis
BackgroundSystematically evaluate the association between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the risk of Non-suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI), thereby providing evidence-based guidance for relevant prevention and early intervention strategies.MethodsA systematic search was conducted across PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and the Cochrane…
The associations of systemic inflammation and insulin resistance-related indicators with psychopathology and BDNF in patients with chronic schizophrenia
BackgroundThe triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index and C-reactive protein-triglyceride-glucose index (CTI) are innovative indicators for assessing insulin resistance (IR) and inflammation, yet research on them in patients with schizophrenia remains limited. This study aimed to explore TyG index and CTI levels and…
Patient safety incidents in mental health residential services: a multicenter, crosssectional, survey-based study
IntroductionWhile patient safety in general hospitals is well-researched, residential mental health services have received less attention. Psychiatric patients and staff working in such facilities face unique and complex risks. This study aims to explore and describe the frequency and characteristics…
Evaluation of anxiety levels and stress coping methods of pregnant women after the Kahramanmaraş earthquake
ObjectiveNatural disasters can cause serious psychological pressures on women during pregnancy. How the mental health of pregnant women is affected after major disasters such as earthquakes and what coping methods come into play in this process is an important research…
Plasma proteomic signature of the human menstrual cycle
Nature Medicine, Published online: 13 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04326-5This Resource presents a large-scale analysis of nearly 3,000 circulating plasma proteins across the menstrual cycle in over 2,700 women from the UK Biobank, revealing distinct proteomic patterns across menstrual phases. This work…
On positioning nurses as health experts
Landmines ahead for Vinay Prasad’s successor, hospitals and chatbots, and more health news from Morning Rounds
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a pancreatic cancer pill, FDA rejecting a Replimune drug again, and more
Metastatic pancreatic cancer patients who received a targeted pill from Revolution Medicines lived nearly twice as long as patients who got chemotherapy
The Download: how humans make decisions, and Moderna’s “vaccine” word games
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. You have no choice in reading this article—maybe How do humans make decisions? The question has…
STAT+: Revolution Medicines touts ‘unprecedented’ data for pancreatic cancer pill
In a trial, metastatic pancreatic cancer patients on the medicine lived twice as long as those on chemotherapy.
STAT+: Allogene Therapeutics’ CAR-T treatment eliminates residual cancer cells in B-cell lymphoma patients
The new data bolster Allogene’s efforts to develop a new, easily administered cell therapy that could delay or prevent cancer recurrence.
STAT+: Spyre Therapeutics IBD drug shows promise in early trial
The inflammatory bowel disease therapy succeeded in its first major testing, setting up a competition with several large drugmakers.