Aging is complex—but not untouchable.

From biomarkers to drug repurposing & novel therapies, science is redefining longevity.

Join ICAG 2026 | May 11–12 | Tokyo, Japan

Website: agingcongress.com

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GLP-1 benefits beyond #weightloss: new research shows heart and liver improvements even without losing weight.

#WTFWire, #GLP1, #HealthResearch, #HeartHealth, #LiverHealth, #MedicalStudy, #HealthBenefits, #MetabolicHealth, #ObesityTreatment, #DiabetesCare

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Genome BC was at the Transforming Health Symposium last week, contributing to conversations on equity, innovation and impact in health research.

From panels on equity in practice and rare disease care to clinical genomics, great to see our team sharing and learning.

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🚨 1 week left for Early Bird! Register + submit your abstract today 🔗 clr.ie/140117 #HealthResearch #PublicHealth

The Positive Brain Health Now Study, 10 Years Later: What we Learned and our Legacy for People Living with HIV Cost: Free registration.

In this next Learning Series session from @bccfe.bsky.social, learn about the methodology, key findings, and legacy of the Positive Brain Health Now Study, ten years later.

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Research Associate in Digital Health Interventions at Loughborough University Apply now for the Research Associate in Digital Health Interventions role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

We're hiring a Research Associate in Digital Health Interventions to join the ACTIVATE trial team!

📍 Loughborough, UK | Full-time, fixed-term to June 2028
⏰ Closing date: 3 May 2026

Apply here: bit.ly/4tGlMdh

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9 Indigenous-led research projects looking at food insecurity in the North split $2M The federal government is funding nine Indigenous-led research projects that look at food insecurity in northern communities. Several of the projects are based in Nunavut as well as the Sambaa K'e Fir...

“9 Indigenous-led research projects looking at food insecurity in the North split $2M” - www.cbc.ca/player/play/... - #FoodInsecurity #HealthResearch #FoodSovereignty – see also www.nccih.ca/495/Video__I...

Weekly Lab Note

TENS therapy insights on pain management and placebo effects. Plus, a new epigenetic clock for biological age.

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Advancing Alzheimer’s Diagnostics Around the World – Centre for Heart Lung Innovation When Dr. Yara Alkhodair arrived at the University of British Columbia (UBC) from Saudi Arabia for a behavioural neurology fellowship, she expected to spend a year in the clinic. She ended up spending…

Supervised by @heartlunginnov.bsky.social investigator Dr. Mari DeMarco, Dr. Yara Alkhodair has helped launch an international collaboration now reshaping Alzheimer’s diagnostics in the Middle East.

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Sitting and Your Heart: New Research Reveals the Risks - Cozzy Energy Solutions Study Links Extended Sitting to Elevated Heart Disease Risk A new study released in the Journal of the American Heart Association has found a significant association between prolonged sedentary behavior and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Researchers followed the activity patterns and health outcomes of more than 500,000 participants across several countries over a

Sitting and Your Heart: New Research Reveals the Risks #PJM #HeartDisease #SedentaryBehavior #CardiovascularHealth #SittingIsTheEnemy #HealthResearch

Do you trust AI-generated health information? 💬 Most users say no.
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Genetic Study Seeks to Understand Health Risks in British South Asian Communities A new research initiative, Genes & Health, has been launched to investigate health conditions disproportionately affecting British Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities. The study, led by Queen Mary University of London in collaboration with NHS Trusts including The Royal Wolverhampton and Walsall Healthcare, aims to explore how genetics influence health outcomes, improve diagnosis, and guide treatments. Volunteers from Wolverhampton and Walsall are invited to provide saliva samples and complete short forms, with some participants possibly joining more detailed follow-up studies. The research particularly targets understanding higher incidences of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and overall poorer health outcomes in these communities. Mr. Fahad Hossain, a consultant and research director at Walsall Manor Hospital, emphasized that the study’s findings could have long-term impacts on public health, while Professor Tonny Veenith highlighted its importance in diversifying genetic research, which historically has focused mainly on European populations. This community-based study is among the largest of its kind worldwide and represents a significant step toward more inclusive and precise healthcare research for underrepresented populations.

Genetic Study Seeks to Understand Health Risks in British South Asian Communities

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Indoor Microplastics Exposure Rises as Home Textiles Drive Airborne Health Concerns Indoor Microplastics Exposure Rises as Home Textiles Drive Airborne Health Concerns Household fabrics, dust and ventilation choices shape inhalation risks

New evidence suggests household textiles and dust may be driving significant indoor microplastics exposure, raising fresh questions for respiratory health research and future air-quality regulation.

#Microplastics #IndoorAir #PublicHealth #RespiratoryRisk #HealthResearch

Using Critical Ethnography to Study Acute Care Clinicians: A Critical Review - Erin Tichenor, Lesley Pritchard, Tim Barlott, 2026 Healthcare researchers are increasingly using ethnographic methods to understand the social dynamics and cultural contexts of specific groups, such as clinical ...

New open‑access article in GQNR on critical ethnography in healthcare research—with a focus on conceptual, ethical, and methodological considerations.
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🔔 New Articles!

🫀 Data-Driven Profiling of Accelerometer-Determined Physical Behaviors and Health Outcomes in Adults: A Systematic Review

⚖️ Validation of Wearable Camera Still-Image Estimates of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Against Direct Observation
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Evolution of public funding for collaborative health research towards higher-level patient-oriented research Abstract. Public research funding agencies increasingly seek to steer health research toward higher levels of translation and societal relevance. Yet it remains unclear to what extent such policy shifts are effectively implemented and reflected in funded projects and scientific outputs. This study examines evolution and changes in the orientation of health research portfolios since 2008 within European funding (Framework Programmes FP7 and Horizon 2020 funding for collaborative health research, FP-HR, and ERC Life Sciences grants), in comparison to NIH funding for collaborative research (P01, U01, and UM1). Using large-scale text analysis and supervised classification, we analyze both project descriptions and the associated scientific publications. At the project level, the EU FP-HR show pronounced shifts toward population-level, diagnostic, and health systems-oriented research, whereas investigator-driven ERC life sciences, NIH P01 and U01, display greater stability with a predominance of basic biomedical research. Publication-level analyses reveal more moderate changes, with basic biomedical research remaining a central component including in EU FP-HR, indicating partial translation of funding priorities into outputs. By jointly analyzing projects and publications, this study identifies and distinguishes between changes in funder expectations and realized research trajectories, highlighting how strategic funding shapes research portfolios within enduring epistemic and institutional constraints.

This gives us a new way to track how research systems evolve—at scale.

📄 Paper: doi.org/10.1162/QSS....

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A New Approach to Delirium Care in Hospitals See how MindfulGarden and PHC Ventures are reducing delirium and improving patient care without relying on sedation.

With the support of PHC Ventures, MindfulGarden has gathered evidence on a better way to treat delirium: a platform that creates a layered, nature-based audiovisual experience to guide the patient towards homeostasis. Read more: buff.ly/6kM5t9X

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🌟 Be a Catalyst for Change in Global Health! 🌟

5th World Congress on Public Health & Epidemiology
📅 August 17–18, 2026
📍Orlando Florida USA
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Advancing representative research: a lived experience perspective Join us to discuss how integrating lived experience into research can transform it into a more inclusive and representative practise.

Don't miss our chatter session with Dr. Cristina Luján-Barroso! 🎙️

We’re exploring the impact of Lived Experience Research. See you there!

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Daily Lab Note

Peptides are getting a lot of buzz—but what does the science actually say? Plus, how your mindset can influence pain relief in surprising ways.

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Provider-Engaged Development of a Sexual Dysfunction Screening Approach for Adolescents and Young Adult Childhood #Cancer Survivors: Iterative Co-Design Study Background: Sexual dysfunction (SD) is common among childhood #Cancer survivors, affecting approximately 20% to 50% of patients. National guidelines recommend discussions about sexuality throughout #Cancer care, and prior work demonstrates patient interest in SD conversations. Despite its prevalence and importance, SD is widely underrecognized and undertreated, creating gaps in comprehensive whole-person care. Objective: Our research aims to collaborate with provider partners to co-design an SD screening intervention prototype for implementation in a clinical oncology setting. This study outlines the co-design process to serve as a case study, highlighting challenges and strategies to achieve a consensus-driven intervention and implementation plan. Methods: We engaged pediatric #Cancer providers in a series of co-design sessions at a National #Cancer Institute–designated #Cancer center within an academic children’s hospital. For each co-design session, the research team created a template outlining considerations from formative work (eg, patient privacy) and key decisions to be made (eg, screening modality). Co-design session moderators facilitated discussion, guiding participants toward a consensus decision for each intervention component. A final process mapping session reviewed and outlined the entire SD prototype. We conducted a rapid qualitative analysis, compiling a templated summary synthesizing and organizing findings by discussion topic and decision point. Based on co-design discussions, the research team compiled a menu of options outlining key thematic findings, core screening intervention functions, and intervention form options to allow for future expansion and tailoring of the SD prototype. Results: Six provider participants, including attending physicians, advanced practice providers, and registered nurses representing multiple oncology subspecialty groups, engaged in a series of 5 co-design sessions. Participants assessed specific intervention component options, reached consensus on component decisions, and determined an intervention and implementation workflow for each. Throughout, providers needed to ensure workflows aligned with patient and provider priorities from foundational work and to ensure design #feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness. Key intervention and implementation decisions included target population, screening frequency, screening modality and workflow, management of screening results, clinic reminders and cues, and provider education and training. With several decisions being interconnected, there was often a cascade effect in which one decision influenced or limited future decisions and, in some cases, required revisiting prior decisions to ensure cohesive alignment into a single prototype. Co-design session moderators used several strategies (eg, reminders, redirection, providing information on #feasibility, etc) to facilitate decision-making and implementation strategy selection. Conclusions: Engaging provider partners in co-design sessions allowed for the collaborative development of a preliminary SD screening approach for adolescents and young adults with and surviving #Cancer. The dynamic co-design process and moderator strategies ensured that intervention and implementation decisions reflected the patient and provider priorities identified in prior work. Future work will test, adapt, and refine the prototype SD screening approach prior to effectiveness testing and eventual dissemination.

JMIR Formative Res: Provider-Engaged Development of a Sexual Dysfunction Screening Approach for Adolescents and Young Adult Childhood #Cancer Survivors: Iterative Co-Design Study #ChildhoodCancer #CancerSurvivors #SexualDysfunction #OncologyCare #HealthResearch

Project Port Hardy: A Quest to Understand Needs and Improve Health Outcomes for Older Adults | Research In Action | Advancing Health A $1.3-million project co-led by Dr. Amy Salmon looks to help older, rural adults feel safe at home. Dr. Amy Salmon shares valuable insight on the progress of Providence Living at The Views and how…

@advancinghealth.bsky.social Director Dr. Amy Salmon is using evidence-based research to improve health outcomes and reduce hospital admissions for older adults with complex needs on rural North Vancouver Island.

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Work with us! The St. Paul’s Hospital Hematology/Oncology Research Group is looking for a Research Coordinator to support with clinical trials.

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Q&A with Dr. Lindsey Richardson Dr. Lindsey Richardson is a Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use and an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. She holds the…

In this Q&A, the BCCSU asks Research Scientist Dr. Lindsay Richardson about her recent CHIR award, and her aims as she sheds light on issues surrounding substance use and the trades.

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Your health shapes your life.

This World Health Day, explore research from the University of Sheffield on brain health, mental wellbeing and new medical advances.

Watch and listen: player.sheffield.ac.uk/categories/h...

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Ransom! academyhealth.org (APR-2026) Safepay claims to have compromised academyhealth.org in a ransomware operation targeting a US-based nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. AcademyHealth, the organization behind academyhealth.org, is a U.S.-based nonprofit professional organization dedicated to advancing the fields of health services research. #UnitedStates

Safepay ransomware group has targeted academyhealth.org, a US-based nonprofit advancing health services research. Incident detected on April 6, 2026, impacting the healthcare sector. #RansomwareAttack #HealthResearch #UnitedStates

It's not just about "brain power." 🏃‍♂️ Reduced cortical myelin in youth with RASopathies (like #Noonansyndrome) is significantly linked to lower muscle strength and mobility. This is the first study to connect these biological markers to daily physical functioning. 🧬 #RareDisease #HealthResearch

Cancer risk with vaping is 15x higher for young adults. New research reveals vaping isn't safer than cigarettes, increasing cancer risk 15x for young adults. Discover the truth behind the "healthier alternative.

Cancer risk with vaping is 15x higher for young adults. #VapingRisks #CancerAwareness #PublicHealth #YouthHealth #HealthResearch