June 29, 2026

Side Effects: The Gut Goes Rogue

When fiber metabolism falters in lupus, the microbiome may start dining on the host instead. This week: mucin-munching bugs, brain-delivered DHA with no cognitive payoff, and lipid-loaded MS lesions that may not be innocent bystanders.

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June 29, 2026

Metabolic Health Tied to Dementia

In two population-based cohorts, metabolically unhealthy status generally showed higher dementia risk estimates, while metabolically healthy obesity was not associated with increased risk in primary analyses.

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June 29, 2026

Diet-Dementia Link Varies by Biomarkers

Effects varied by which biomarker and diet were measured, and the study stops short of proving diet changes risk.

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June 23, 2026

Side Effects: Sour Mouth, Lower BP

Acidic gum beat sugar-free at cranking out nitric oxide from beetroot juice — exactly backward from what test-tube studies predicted. Also this week: a sleep gene that ignores amyloid, and jackfruit sap moonlighting as a bone-building drug delivery system.

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June 19, 2026

AI-Based Speech Analysis May Flag Cognitive Impairment

Machine-learning models trained on routine patient-physician conversations achieved similar performance in development and external validation cohorts in predicting cognitive impairment.

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June 18, 2026

Cell Aging May Predict Future Disease

Plasma proteomic models of more than 40 cell types were associated with incident Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cancer,  and mortality across three large cohorts.

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June 11, 2026

When Bad Data Enters the Drug Pipeline

Federal prosecutors allege that a Florida physician and research staff fabricated clinical trial records that were submitted into database systems used to evaluate investigational drugs.

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June 09, 2026

Side Effects: Context Is the Diagnosis

This week's research makes one thing clear: who someone is before they get sick — their relationships, their partner's health, the back of their eye — is doing a lot of work medicine is only beginning to account for.

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June 09, 2026

Hospital Admission May Raise Health Care Spending in Dementia

Quasi-experimental analysis of nearly 900,000 emergency department visits found no evidence of lower mortality among admitted patients.

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June 08, 2026

Misdiagnosis Common in Parkinsonian Disorders

Autopsy-confirmed findings linked diagnostic errors, co-pathology, and genetic variation to distinct pathologic patterns across more than 3,300 donors with Parkinsonian disorders.

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