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NGDI UBC Co-Founder is honored to be part of the University of Texas College of Pharmacy Leadership Circle as announced in the Spring 2026 Focus Magazine (See pages 28 & 29): utexas.app.box.com/s/iv6fswne2k...

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Drug-resistant fungal disease must be addressed in the 2026 update to the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance, write the authors in a Comment article in Nature Medicine. go.nature.com/3OSMQr0 🧪

How to Make the Most of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and the Impact of Usually Read our full analysis of artificial intelligence in medicine and its broader implications. Check the numbers and the context here. — Thedetroitbureau

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How weed affects adolescent brains The latest CDC director nominee, the ongoing measles outbreak, and other health news from Morning Rounds

How weed affects adolescent brains www.statnews.com/2026/04/20/h...

New Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer article: "Stem-like PD-1+TCF-1+ CD8+ T cells result from helpless priming and rely on CD4+ T-cell help to complete their cytotoxic effector differentiation" jitc.bmj.com/content/14/4...

Severe Malaria in Kids Linked to Certain Cognitive, Academic Deficits Years Later Impairment persisted after episodes of cerebral malaria or severe malarial anemia

“cerebral malaria and severe malarial anemia were linked to long-term cognitive and academic deficits in survivors of severe childhood malaria” www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

This Sexually Transmitted Infection Linked To Heart Attack, Stroke FRIDAY, April 17, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Syphilis is on the rise in the United States, and with it the threat that a long-term untreated infection could pose t

“patients with syphilis had twice the risk of aortic aneurysm..Syphilis patients also had a 92% higher risk of stroke caused by bleeding; a 53% higher risk of stroke caused by blood clots; and a 31% higher risk of heart attack” www.healthday.com/health-news/...

This is a strain of Candida auris cultured in a petri dish at a laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's a form of yeast that can harm humans — and is resistant to the most common antifungal drugs.

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WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

This is figure 1, which shows the distribution of health intents.

A paper in Nature Health reports on a sample of 500,000 conversations between users and Microsost Copilot from January 2026 on health-related topics, showing nearly one in five conversations involved personal symptom assessment or condition discussion. go.nature.com/4eqgK07 🧪

ESCMID 2026: Cerebral Malaria Tied to Long-Term Cognitive Impairment Cerebral malaria and severe malarial anaemia are tied to long-term cognitive impairment in children under five. Read expert insight from ESCMID Global 2026.

“The take home is that these problems with cognition, that we had seen a year or two years later, persisted out to eight years,”
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Navigating cancer: Insights from patient journey mapping Background Cancer is an increasing public health problem in South Africa, with breast cancer being the most diagnosed cancer and cervical cancer the leading cause of cancer deaths among women.…

Day and colleagues highlight the potential of patient mapping of breast and cervical cancer to show where systems and services fall short, but also to demonstrate opportunities for strengthening a patient-responsive health system.

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Study links long COVID in kids to worse grades, attention, and social life

Wondering if it will wind up the parent chat group enough to get me booted out if I put the article about long COVID and school grades in there... 👀

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Ending HIV requires integrated, people-centered care. We connect HIV services with care for coinfections and related health needs to strengthen health systems and improve access to continuous, comprehensive care.

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Excellent Infographic From Fouad Saade PhD Candidate in Microbiology | Owner of ALAMAT Tutoring Platform

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Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Development Award - Funding | Wellcome Funding call supporting transdisciplinary teams led from Africa, South Asia or South-East Asia to develop innovative clinical trial proposals for local impact.

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If you have an innovative idea for a randomised controlled trial proposal, but need to build your team, develop your clinical trial protocol or generate pilot data, find our more and apply below. ⤵️

Donna Gustafson was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019. Last year, she hiked Mt. Etna in Italy last year to celebrate her 50th wedding anniversary.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pancreatic...
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Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data Nature - The models are designed to predict someone’s risk of diabetes or stroke. A few might already have been used on patients.

Some models seem to have been used in clinical settings, although it’s not clear whether this has led to flawed diagnoses

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This Simple Blood Test Could Outperform “Bad Cholesterol” in Preventing Heart Disease ApoB testing outperforms traditional cholesterol measures in preventing heart attacks and strokes while remaining cost-effective. It more accurately identifies risk, leading to better treatment decisions. A common blood test used by millions of people in the U.S. each year to measure “bad” choles

This Simple Blood Test Could Outperform “Bad Cholesterol” in Preventing Heart Disease ApoB testing outperforms traditional cholesterol measures in preventing heart attacks and strokes while remaining cost-effective. It more accurately identifies risk, leading to better treatment decisions. A common

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution Nature - Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, behaviour and other traits.

The biggest ever study of ancient human DNA shows that human evolution has accelerated over the past 10,000 years

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Brain’s internal compass stability sheds light on memory ~ Nature study led by McGill University investigator Adrien Peyrache offers a solution to a long-standing puzzle and could have implications for research into Alzheimer’s disease. https://ow.ly/B9r650YLnFE

Experimental drug doubles one-year survival in pancreatic cancer A new drug that works by making tumors more susceptible to chemotherapy and the immune system has increased survival in those with advanced pancreatic cancer in a trial.

Experimental drug doubles one-year survival in pancreatic cancer A new drug that works by making tumors more susceptible to chemotherapy and the immune system has increased survival in those with advanced pancreatic cancer in a trial.

At a time when anxiety is high and the state of global politics seems dire it can be hard to keep hope alive. But we must especially in the younger generation. Brilliant essay by @madhupai.bsky.social . Worth a read.

NSF awards record number of coveted PhD fellowships in surprise move Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after the U.S. funding giant slashed its Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards in half

NSF awards record number of coveted PhD fellowships in surprise move Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after the U.S. funding giant slashed its Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards in half