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ACSM · 14 Aug 2026 · Exercise
The 2025 reconciliation bill, officially known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), underwent significant changes as it moved from the House to the Senate and ultimately became law. The post Policy Corner | Fit Future Act Advances, Senate Confirms New CDC Director appeared first on ACSM .
WHO · 12 Jul 2024 · Exercise
The World Health Organization has released "The Role of Parliaments and Parliamentarians in Strengthening Health Security Preparedness", an online training course. This essential resource aims to equip parliamentarians with the knowledge and tools necessary to enhance global health security efforts.
WHO · 12 Apr 2024 · Exercise
WHO and Netherlands Strategic Dialogue in The Hague, Netherlands 10 April 2024. Credit: Michel Mees Photography The WHO and the Netherlands convened in The Hague on 10 April 2024, to discuss joint priorities and alignment between the Dutch Global Health Strategy and WHO’s key strategic goals, marking a new milestone in their longstanding partnership. Rooted in the Netherlands' unwavering commitment to global he
ScienceDaily · 12 Sept 2026 · Research
Researchers found that blocking IL1RAP could disrupt a powerful inflammatory network that helps pancreatic cancer survive treatment. In preclinical experiments, the approach reduced tumor-protecting cells and fibrosis while boosting the activity of cancer-fighting T cells. That could make chemotherapy and immunotherapy more effective.
ScienceDaily · 12 Sept 2026 · Aging
Long-lived bats appear to combine powerful immune defenses with unusual strategies for eliminating damaged cells, potentially helping them avoid cancer and disease for decades. Researchers hope these genetic tricks could eventually reveal new ways to protect human health during aging.
WHO · 11 May 2024 · Research
Governments of the world today agreed to continue working on a proposed pandemic agreement, and to further refine the draft, ahead of the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly that starts 27 May 2024. Governments meeting at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva agreed to resume hybrid and in-person discussions over coming weeks to advance work on critical issues, including around a proposed new global
WHO · 7 Mar 2025 · Research
WHO and Switzerland have announced the renewal of their cooperation strategy for the period 2024-2028. In 2013, Switzerland became the first high-income country in the WHO European Region to pilot a cooperation strategy with WHO (hereafter referred to as the WHO-Switzerland Cooperation Strategy). In 2022, WHO and Switzerland jointly decided to update and renew this cooperation strategy, which was done on 4 March 2025
ACSM · 4 Sept 2026 · Exercise
Submit your letter of interest for PCORI Engagement Funding Opportunities The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has opened the Engagement Award Program funding opportunities for the Fall 2026 cycle. These opportunities support efforts to bring more patients, caregivers, clinicians and other healthcare decision makers into the research proc
NIH/NLM PubMed · 7 Jun 2025 · Research
Starting with the annual baseline release in December 2025, the content of PubMed data distributed via FTP will be generated using the same technology as the PubMed website and E-utilities API. To help users prepare for this transition, a test FTP site is available now with daily update files generated by the new process.
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UC San Diego / Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 30 Sept 2026 · Exercise
Study (randomized trial). Sheri Hartman of UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and colleagues report two papers from one trial in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (30 September 2026). Two hundred fifty-three breast cancer survivors who had finished active care, reported low activity, and reported thinking difficulties were assigned to a remotely coached program aiming for 150 minutes a week of moderate-to-vigorous activity, or to a health-and-wellness program with the same call schedule and no activity coaching. The exercise arm added more weekly minutes (about 35 extra minutes a week versus the comparison arm). Primary outcomes — processing speed and self-rated thinking — did not differ between arms at 6 or 12 months; both arms improved. Secondary outcomes: attention was higher in the activity arm at 6 and 12 months; memory was higher at 6 months and not at 12 months. A random subset of 124 people gave blood. At the start, two epigenetic clocks put both arms about 8.7 years older than calendar age. Over 12 months those markers advanced about one month in the activity arm and about 10 months in the wellness arm. Faster epigenetic aging lined up with smaller attention gains. Larger trials are needed. Educational notes. This is not a cancer protocol.
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Wroclaw Medical University / Biomolecules · 30 Sept 2026 · Nutrition
Review (mostly animal and lab). Anna Prescha of Wroclaw Medical University and colleagues, including former students Marta Maria Miszczak and Karolina Kłosowska-Buryło, review mulberry and gut microbes in Biomolecules (2026; 16(7):965; doi 10.3390/biom16070965; ScienceDaily 30 September 2026). White mulberry leaves contain 1-deoxynojirimycin plus polyphenols and polysaccharides; black mulberry fruit is rich in anthocyanins. Drying, fermentation, and extraction change the mix. In some experiments, leaf or fruit fractions shifted microbes and raised short-chain fatty acids. In mice on a high-fat diet, a white-mulberry fruit fraction with both polyphenols and polysaccharides changed the microbiota more than either fraction alone, and transferring those microbes to other mice tracked some metabolic improvements. The authors say no human study has yet tested how a characterized mulberry preparation changes the gut microbiota. Educational notes. This is not a reason to take a mulberry product for blood sugar or weight.
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PLOS Medicine / Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics · 29 Sept 2026 · Supplements / medicine
Study (case-control imaging). Shile Qi of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and colleagues, including Vince D. Calhoun, report in PLOS Medicine (doi 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004860; ScienceDaily 29 September 2026) a predictive age difference (PAD) analysis: brain age estimated from structural MRI minus calendar age. They used 45,900 control scans and 2,698 scans from people with ADHD, autism, alcohol or tobacco addiction, Alzheimer disease, mild cognitive impairment, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression. Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment showed the largest positive PAD. Addiction and several psychiatric diagnoses also showed higher PAD. ADHD and autism showed no overall PAD difference versus controls. The prefrontal cortex showed higher PAD across several diagnoses. Psychiatric diagnoses lined up with frontal and temporal PAD; dementia with frontal and occipital PAD; addiction with default-mode, salience, putamen, and thalamus PAD. The work is correlational and does not show that a diagnosis causes a brain to age faster. Educational notes.
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