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From arterial stiffness and shifting blood pressure to chronic inflammation, researchers examine the interconnected processes that may link cardiovascular aging with frailty. Review: Cardiovascular frailty – an emerging frailty phenotype. Image Credit: New Africa / Shutterstock A narrative review article published in the Journal of Human Hypertension examines cardiovascular frailty, a proposed frailty phenotype intended to capture the bidirectional relationship between frailty and the cardiovascular system. Background Advances in healthcare systems and improvements in life expectancy have led to a corresponding increase in older populations worldwide, accompanied by a rise in the prevalence of frailty. Frailty is an age-related clinical…

Researchers compared 236 blood metabolites with dietary patterns in European children, tracing how foods ranging from fish and olive oil to added sugars and saturated spreads corresponded with metabolic profiles. Study: Association of three different dietary patterns with the metabolomic profiles of children: the BiomarKid project. Image Credit: Irina WS / Shutterstock A recent study published in the European Journal of Nutrition suggests that metabolomic profiling may help objectively characterize adherence to dietary patterns among children. Background Diet is key to a healthy lifestyle, but accurately assessing dietary intake remains difficult. Self-reported data is often unreliable. Among children, the uncertainty may…

Working in home healthcare, Marci Bacon often helps people with little to no insurance. When they’re looking for medical supplies within their budget, she sends them to the Wichita Medical Loan Closet.But a few years ago, Bacon lost her health insurance for a short period of time. She has a daughter with autism who, like many with sensory issues, uses a feeding tube for nutrition. The cost of those supplies — the syringes, feeding tubes and her daughter’s favorite nutritional shake — started to add up.Bacon turned to the medical loan closet herself to get help. Even now with insurance,…

Mario covers technology in health care, including FDA regulation of artificial intelligence; how Medicare pays for health tech; the use of AI in clinical care; mental health chatbots; and consumer wearables. He’s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. You can reach Mario on Signal at mariojoze.13.You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Good morning health tech readers! Football season is underway, and I appreciated this piece reckoning with the human…

Q: Grupo Hospitales Puerta de Hierro has expanded from a single facility into a regional network across multiple states. What core strategic priorities lead to this expansion?A: Our organization originated in 2004 from a vision shared by a group of physicians led by Board Chairman Ricardo Acosta. What began as an ophthalmology clinic and ambulatory center in Guadalajara quickly demonstrated strong market demand. By 2006, we launched our first high-complexity specialty hospital, designed from the ground up to serve as a leading tertiary care institution equipped with advanced imaging, hybrid operating rooms, and state-of-the-art surgical navigation systems.Following our initial growth…

By Adam Lidgett · September 15, 2026, 5:36 PM EDT The full U.S. International Trade Commission is set to look at parts of an agency judge’s ruling in favor of medical technology company Stryker Corp. in a fight against imports it… To view the full article, register now. Source Link

Researchers at Stanford Medicine have developed two new artificial intelligence models of the biological cell. The first, called universal cell embedding, paved the way for a second-generation model called TranscriptFormer, which has been trained on data from 112 million cells representing 12 species, ranging from single-celled yeast to humans. The AI cell models make it dramatically easier to compare cells among species – and offer possibilities for new insights on diseases and paths to new cell treatments. “We’re trying to open up a whole new way to think about cell biology,” said Stephen Quake, PhD, a professor of bioengineering. He…

Artificial intelligence (AI) models prioritize starkly different attributes than humans when making high-stakes decisions, and they don’t express indecision like humans do, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers, raising questions about the role of AI in decision support for ethically sensitive situations like medical decisions. The researchers used a hypothetical scenario to explore AI’s moral decision-making in a high-stakes scenario: If there are multiple kidney transplant patients but only one available organ, who should receive the kidney? That’s the fundamental question explored by Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth as an example of the challenge of allocating scarce…

Interacting with animals can make people feel calmer and less lonely and anxious. A new study from the University of California, Davis, shows that animals play an active role in shaping these interactions and their outcomes.  Spending just three minutes with miniature horses and donkeys improved the mood of adolescents. Teens who picked up on the equines’ body language cues showed bigger reductions in loneliness and sadness – even if those cues involved the animal walking away. The study’s results, published in Scientific Reports, provide a new framework for improving animal-assisted interventions for both people and animals. Our work…

For years, the idea of nuclear weapons in space sounded more like science fiction than a realistic threat. That changed Monday (Sept. 14), when U.S. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink announced at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference in Maryland that the U.S. had deployed “on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action.”While the officials have not said that these weapons are nuclear, the announcement has raised a question: If countries are now openly putting weapons in space, how far away are we from a future where nuclear weapons become part of that competition?The…