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Body mass index, that frequently used barometer of health, may not be as accurate as we might believe.

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The top-five program accepts 50 students per cohort from more than 1,500 applicants annually.

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IRS-certified student volunteers with Cal State Fullerton鈥檚 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, or VITA, will help families navigate last-minute tax preparation Saturday in CSUF鈥檚 College of Business and Economics. CSUF鈥檚 trained accounting students can illustrate for viewers and readers how the region is preparing for the tax deadline.

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University of Rhode Island animal science and technology majors are working on conservation efforts for the imperiled New England cottontail rabbit, considered a vulnerable species in the region because of their decreasing population. The students are helping efforts at Providence鈥檚 Roger Williams Park Zoo.

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A new autonomous drone system could provide ecologists with deeper insights into animal behavior in the wild, a study suggests.

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Lauren Schiff, MD, a gynecologic surgeon at the UNC School of Medicine, and Ashley Hester, PhD, a psychologist at the UNC TEACCH Autism Program, outline simple ways physicians can improve quality of care for autistic patients 鈥� and how these methods can help everyone who comes into the office.

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The sigma meson exists only for a fleeting moment before decaying into a pair of pions, making it hard to study. Nuclear physicists recently combined modern supercomputer calculations with more traditional theoretical tools to study the sigma meson, producing the first accurate theoretical view of the sigma as a system of quarks and gluons. This will aid in understanding the role the sigma meson plays in proton-neutron interactions and other phenomena.

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A CHLA specialist in infectious diseases explains the symptoms and sounds of whooping cough, and why vaccination is critical.

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Penn Medicine leaders and regional community representatives broke ground today on a four-story, 162,000-square-foot multispecialty outpatient facility that will expand options for patients to receive advanced care in Montgomery and Bucks counties.

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The TCT 2025 Career Achievement Award will be presented to Stephan Windecker, MD, during Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), the annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). TCT will take place October 25-28, 2025, in San Francisco, California at the Moscone Center.

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The April 2025 issue of FASEB BioAdvances delves into the effects of global warming on obesity, innovative treatments for hypertension and kidney injury, gene recombination in neural tissues, and the future of precision medicine through AI and biomedical informatics.

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University Hospitals Healthcare Transformation IDEATOR just wrapped up its 2-day think tank and solutions workshop at MidTown Collaboration Center in Cleveland, Ohio, announcing two winning ideas to combat food insecurity that will now receive development funding.

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Cal State Fullerton鈥檚 Latinx Community Resource Center recently offered an interactive workshop presented by Wells Fargo to help students learn financial literacy and tips for managing their money before entering the workforce.

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The latest research advances from Cedars-Sinai investigators.

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Robots have long captured our collective imaginations. In today鈥檚 world robotics are an essential driver behind next-generation products, medical innovations, educational advances and more. Case Western Reserve University innovations are leading the way.

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Three cardiovascular experts in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai received distinguished American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) awards during the ACC鈥檚 Annual Scientific Session on March 31 in Chicago.

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Robert Barrack, MD, the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at WashU Medicine, led a long-term study that showed that patients who received a Birmingham hip resurfacing procedure maintained a higher level of athletic activity years after their surgery than those who received a total hip replacement.

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Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have found that tapping into the body鈥檚 own immune system and activating a type of immune cell known as B cells, could be the key to boosting the effectiveness of tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte, or TIL therapy. Results of their study were published in the Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer.

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Gerald Tuskan, director of the Center for Bioenergy Innovation, or CBI, and a Corporate Fellow at the Department of Energy鈥檚 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been awarded the Marcus Wallenberg Prize, the world鈥檚 highest honor in the field of forestry, for his pioneering work in sequencing and analyzing the first tree genome.