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TL;DR: A 2026 feasibility study in the Journal of Activity, Sedentary and Sleep Behaviors found that pregnant participants could use a research-grade accelerometer plus text-message sleep diaries across much of pregnancy, although third-trimester wear declined…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health linked composite inflammatory biomarkers during pregnancy and postpartum with postpartum anxiety symptoms, but the strongest associations ran in the unexpected direction of lower anxiety risk at highe…
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TL;DR: A 2026 review in Journal of Pain Research argues that postoperative pain care is moving away from opioid-centered prescribing toward multimodal, opioid-sparing protocols, with the strongest practical signal around NSAIDs paired with dexamethasone or reg…
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TL;DR: A 2026 BJPsych Bulletin paper argues that person-first language in forensic mental health services may reduce stigma, social distance, and pessimism when it is used carefully rather than as a substitute for structural change. Key Findings Forensic menta…
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TL;DR: A 2026 review in the Journal of Neuroinflammation argued that several parasitic infections may affect behavior and cognition through converging microbiota, immune, barrier, and glial pathways. Key Findings Protozoa and helminths reviewed: The review cov…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Scientific Reports identified a novel OPHN1 K306N variant in a boy with cyclic strabismus, linking a 24-hour eye-alignment rhythm to altered phosphoinositide binding without the intellectual disability usually associated with OPHN1 syndr…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Implementation Science Communications found that high-performing HEALing Communities Study coalitions used representative membership, shared goals, data support, and communications campaigns to strengthen opioid-use-disorder service impl…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Journal of Global Health analysis of Global Burden of Disease 2021 data estimated that 162.86 million people had substance use disorders in 2021, with age-standardized rates down since 1990 but major inequality across sex, age, region, and develo…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Nature Communications study used long-read single-cell RNA sequencing to map full-length isoforms in glioblastoma and found tumor-specific transcripts that short-read methods often miss. Key Findings 27 GBM samples: Researchers profiled histologi…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in International Journal of Obesity found that glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, metabolic drugs that extend a satiety and glucose-control hormone pathway, reduced body weight mainly through fat loss w…
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