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  • Study highlights fragmented dementia care across health and social care systems
    on September 3, 2026 at 4:00 pm

    A new University of Liverpool–led study has highlighted widespread fragmentation between health care and social services for people living with dementia and their unpaid caregivers across eight European countries.

  • Routine clinical data help AI predict rapid Parkinson’s decline three to five years in advance
    on September 3, 2026 at 3:40 pm

    For patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, one of the greatest uncertainties is what comes next. Some people experience relatively mild symptoms for years. Others face a much steeper course marked by worsening movement problems, cognitive decline or both.

  • T cell protein could unlock new treatment for the most-feared joint replacement complication
    on September 3, 2026 at 3:20 pm

    Bone and joint infections cause significant health problems for patients and lead to millions of dollars in added health costs per year, but clinicians lack reliable tools to predict which patients will develop severe or persistent disease. And when standard-of-care antibiotics fall short, there are no immunotherapies available to help patients mount a stronger defense against infections.

  • Cerebral palsy might be a collection of symptoms, not its own disease
    on September 3, 2026 at 3:00 pm

    Historically, cerebral palsy (CP) was linked largely to events at birth, including prematurity or temporary loss of oxygen to the brain, but research over the past decade has suggested that genetic factors contribute to CP in many children. In a study published in the journal American Journal of Human Genetics on Sept. 3, researchers report that only 89 of the 515 genes previously linked to CP have a statistically significant association with the condition. They suggest that instead of viewing CP as a single disease with genetic causes, it may be better described as a collection of symptoms that can occur in many different conditions as a result of both genetic variants and environmental factors.

  • The blueprint for taste: Scientists map the neural circuitry behind feeding decisions in fruit flies
    on September 3, 2026 at 3:00 pm

    Everything you eat passes one checkpoint before it enters your body: taste. In a fraction of a second, it decides what gets swallowed and what gets rejected, a judgment call critical to survival. Now, for the first time, researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF) and their collaborators have mapped the complete neural wiring behind this process in an animal, tracing taste signals from sensory neurons across the body all the way to the motor neurons that drive feeding and revealing neural pathways that could explain how taste triggers anticipatory insulin release before a single calorie is absorbed.