Findings highlight the need for further research into this relationship between fear of cancer recurrence and its physiological consequences. Interventions to address partner fear of cancer recurrence are needed and may aid in improving future physical health outcomes.

The Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth has announced an innovative collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim with the goal of advancing prescription digital therapeutics that specifically target serious mental illness. The collaboration will leverage each organization’s respective strengths in academic research and the healthcare industry to develop tools that can address the global mental health crisis. 

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other animals establishes long-term infections in hosts. Using a mouse model, the researchers showed thatTrypanosoma brucei essentially plays a game of hide-and-seek by setting up shop in its hosts’ tissues, allowing it to constantly change its protective surface coat and evade antibodies.