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Get the health information and medications you need every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. good morning. The season finale of “First Opinion Podcast” airs today. Sarah Mpo, STAT’s director of editorial operations and head of style guide, also joined Tory Bosch to discuss the decision to keep the two words “healthcare.” Please listen. US infant mortality rate will decline in 2025 Infant mortality rates hit record lows last year, according to preliminary data from the CDC. It seems small. The number of infant deaths per 1,000 people in 2022 and 2023 was slightly lower than…
Male rats exposed to widely used plastic chemicals during early development showed higher levels of anxiety as adults, according to a study presented at ENDO 2026, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Although the study was conducted in rodents, the findings suggest that prenatal and immediate exposure to endocrine disruptors can also cause long-term behavioral changes in humans. “This study shows that one of the most widely used plasticizers in the world can induce behavioral changes when exposed to subjects during prenatal and early postnatal development, and that this effect persists over long periods of time,” said Osvaldo…
Antiplatelet drugs are one of the main tools used to prevent blood clots from forming in people who have had a heart attack or stroke or have cardiovascular disease that puts them at high risk for blood clots. These treatments work by reducing the ability of platelets to clump together and form blood clots that can block arteries. However, their use also increases the risk of bleeding, a common complication that limits their use to certain patients and remains one of the major challenges in cardiology today. Now, research by researchers at the Saint Pau Institute (IR Saint Pau) and…
Rutgers University researchers say the use of GLP-1 drugs, commonly prescribed for weight loss and diabetes management, may have effects beyond metabolic health, including behaviors associated with violence. Their research is criminologyinvestigated whether the use of GLP-1 receptor agonists, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, influences violent criminal behavior in adults by attenuating the effects of impulsivity and alcohol consumption. Researchers analyzed data from a 2025 survey of 7,521 U.S. adults and focused their primary analysis on 821 people who had used GLP-1 drugs. This study compared current and former GLP-1 users to examine whether drug use modifies the relationship between…
On a quiet street in Monterey Park, California, a green and white “Yes to NDC” sign stood on a front lawn as volunteers went door to door, drumming up support from residents to vote in favor of banning new data centers in the area.They clarified the wording on the ballot in English, Spanish, and Chinese, and distributed multilingual flyers warning of the impact of AI-related data center development on increased power demand, industrial infrastructure, and the environment.Less than a month later, on June 2, Monterey Park voters overwhelmingly approved the ban in the San Gabriel Valley, east of Los Angeles,…
The European Parliament is expected to approve new rules to make it easier for farmers to grow crops gene-edited using new genomic technologies (NGT). Voting on the NGT is scheduled for June 17th. If the EU gives the green light, it would be a major policy shift. The city of Brussels has maintained a cautious stance on genetically modified organisms since GMO regulations began in the 1990s. From “Frankenfoods” to CRISPR crops Thirty years ago, GMO agricultural products were often referred to as “Frankenstein foods” or “Frankenfoods.” Environmental activists and some media members have warned that GMOs can cause allergic…
A neuroimaging study conducted in Italy found that autobiographical memories are represented across interconnected regions of the hippocampus and cerebral cortex, and that memories from closer periods in life tend to have more similar neural representations than memories that are more distant in time. They found that the right hippocampus encodes both event identity and temporal distance, and that the frontopolar and retrosplenial cortices encode the temporal structure of memory. The paper is neuroimage. Autobiographical memories are memories about a person’s own life and personal experiences. These include specific events that happened at a specific time and place, such as…
Circle of Blue by Victoria Witke June 17, 2026 Studies show that the upper reaches of the Great Lakes are at high risk for wildfires, and that large, hot fires can harm lakes in the region’s remote watersheds. Reason: Plants burn in fire. Scorching high temperatures make soils hydrophobic, causing erosion and increasing runoff into lakes. There are no longer any plants to filter the sediment that seeps into waterways. One area of concern is northern Minnesota, where dry and windy conditions are causing fires. In early June, lightning sparked three wildfires in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Preserve, leading…
Environmentalists have filed a lawsuit against Robeson County to stop the landfill from contaminating drinking water. According to the Robeson County Landfill, PFAS (permanent chemicals) are seeping into the county’s public water system. lawsuit It was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has allowed the landfill to expand over the years and now occupies 537 acres near the town of St. Paul. The complaint states that the Rocco Water Treatment Plant, located across the street from the landfill, supplies water only from four groundwater wells,…
When romantic partners cohabit, sharing similar feelings and perspectives about the transition can lead to increased relationship satisfaction. Recent research published in Social psychology and personality science Evidence shows that couples who are aligned on this major life event tend to be happier together. However, this shared perspective does not necessarily increase during the first 6 months of cohabitation. Living with a romantic partner represents a major life transition that both people experience at the same time. The physical act of sharing a home is a communal event, but different people interpret the experience very differently. Some may see this…