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Researchers have identified the health and lifestyle factors most closely related to the daily burden of endometriosis, from fertility to mental health. Study: Associations between health and lifestyle factors and multidimensional quality of life in women with endometriosis: A cross-sectional study. Image credit: Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock.com New research published in Frontiers of global women’s health Identify modifiable health and lifestyle factors associated with the overall quality of life of women with endometriosis. Endometriosis disrupts many aspects of a woman’s life Endometriosis is a chronic gynecological disease characterized by the presence of endometrium-like tissue outside the uterus. This condition is associated with many…

Major ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean are slowing, and the effects could extend far beyond the Atlantic Ocean. A new study from the University of California, Riverside suggests the change could reduce snowfall in Greenland while strengthening powerful storms along the California coast. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a vast ocean current system that acts like a planetary conveyor belt. It transports warm tropical water north, helping to keep regions such as Europe relatively calm. As the water cools and becomes denser, it sinks and flows south along the ocean floor. “It’s well known that the AMOC…

Included Health Inc., a virtual care and health navigation company, has entered into an agreement to acquire Firefly Health Inc. to expand alternative health plans for employers. In January, Included Health began designing alternative health plans for employers and expanding its existing all-in-one virtual care platform. Founded in 2017, Firefly Health is a primary care and health plan provider serving more than 20,000 individuals nationwide. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026. The companies did not disclose financial details of the acquisition. “In some ways, this is very much of the moment and what the…

Aurenar, which developed a non-invasive, disposable neuromodulation platform, on Tuesday announced a $5.7 million seed funding round to accelerate progress. American Heart Association Ventures’ Go Red for Women Venture Fund and Solas BioVentures led the funding round, with participation from BJC Health and Kaleida Capital. Aurenar’s V-Link platform provides transurethral vagal stimulation to modulate the body’s inflammatory response to conditions such as subarachnoid hemorrhage. It received breakthrough device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 30. Dr. Eric Leuthardt, founder and CEO of Aurenar, told Fierce Healthcare that the idea to non-invasively use vagus nerve stimulation…

Explore eleven pivotal 2026 clinical trials reshaping vaccines, oncology, and gene editing with innovative adaptive designs and AI integration.

LifeBridge Health’s Sinai Hospital in Baltimore uses artificial intelligence-powered sepsis diagnosis in clinical practice, bringing research-backed tools to patients’ bedsides. Prenosis, a Chicago-based biology-based technology company, has developed Sepsis ImmunoScore, an AI-powered tool that can spot early signs of sepsis. The tool analyzes 22 parameters to identify patterns of a patient’s biological immune response, allowing clinicians to detect sepsis or progression to sepsis within 24 hours. Sepsis ImmunoScore received initial approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for software to diagnose sepsis in 2024. Prenosis’ solution was approved through the FDA’s De Novo pathway. A study published in the…

Get the health information and medications you need every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. good morning. Today we have a very interesting story from STAT’s Jason Mast. Pour your coffee and scroll down. Racial disparities remain in PMOS Endometriosis, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, and uterine fibroids are common but painful gynecological conditions that often go undiagnosed, especially in women of color. New data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics underscores this. Among women between the ages of 20 and 49, 6.2% were diagnosed with endometriosis, 8.7% with PMOS, and 7.8% with uterine fibroids.…

Many molecules exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, such as left and right hands. Although these molecular twins may appear nearly identical, they can behave dramatically differently, especially in biological systems and medicines. Distinguishing these enantiomers (also called chiral molecules) remains a major scientific and technological challenge. One way to understand molecular handedness is to think about screws and nuts. Right-handed threads will fit right-handed threads, but left-handed threads will not. The researchers now show that a specially shaped light can act as a similar type of threaded probe, interacting differently with molecules depending on…

The introduction of mobile phone dating apps led to a significant increase in sexual activity among college students, but there was no corresponding increase in committed relationships. Although these platforms coincided with increases in reports of sexual assault and sexually transmitted diseases, they surprisingly did not worsen average mental health and even produced small psychological improvements for some women. The findings are published in a large study published in the American Economic Journal Applied Economics. Currently, online matchmaking is the most common way for heterosexual adult couples in the United States to form relationships. Before 2013, the idea of ​​digital…

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has observed a rare supermassive black hole tearing apart and consuming stars far from the center of a distant galaxy. Astronomers describe the star as an apparent “orphan” because it is unusually far away from the center of galaxies, where supermassive black holes are normally found. This type of phenomenon has never before been detected this far from the center of a galaxy. “We were looking for these star-shattering events as a way to find invisible supermassive black holes that wander far from the centers of galaxies where they normally reside,” said Robert Stein, a…