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14-Apr-2025

Popular CT scans could account for 5% of all cancer cases a year

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs.

The danger is greatest for infants, followed by children and adolescents. But adults also are at risk, since they are the most likely to get scans.

Journal: JAMA Internal Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

14-Apr-2025

Study sheds light on how inherited cancer mutations drive tumor growth

WashU Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Most cancer genome studies have focused on mutations in the tumor itself and how such gene variants allow a tumor to grow unchecked. A new study, led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, takes a deep dive into inherited cancer mutations measured in a healthy blood sample and reports how those mutations might take a toll on the body’s cells starting at birth, perhaps predisposing a person to develop cancers at various stages of life.

Journal: Cell
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

14-Apr-2025

Recently discovered immune cell type is key to understanding food allergies

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study led by researchers at NYU Langone Health has revealed that a special group of cells in the intestines tamp down the immune responses caused by exposure to food proteins. Called “tolerogenic dendritic cells,” these cells enable food to pass through the body without triggering an immune reaction, unless they malfunction to cause allergies.

Journal: Nature
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health

14-Apr-2025

Digital dementia: Does technology use by ‘digital pioneers’ correlate to cognitive decline?

Baylor University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study in Nature Human Behavior by neuroscientists at Baylor University and the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School reveals that digital technologies actually are associated with reduced cognitive decline versus the assumed correlation to dementia.

Journal: Nature Human Behaviour
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

14-Apr-2025

Having a 'therapist in your pocket' curbs depression among primary care patients

Medical University of South Carolina
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Screening for depression is common in primary care, but providers have few options other than medications to offer those screening positive. The Moodivate app offers a digital version of a behavioral therapy known to reduce depressive symptoms. In a clinical trial conducted at 22 Medical University of South Carolina primary care practices and reported in JAMA Internal Medicine, patients who received the app saw significantly greater reduction in depressive symptoms than those receiving usual care.

Funder: NIH/National Institute of Mental Health