In Brief

HIV epidemics are emerging and growing among female sex workers and their male clients in multiple countries in the Middle East and North Africa, and few of these epidemics have already reached their peak.

Responding to the growing prevalence of obesity in the United States, an alliance of professional medical societies has developed the first competencies for training and evaluating medical students, residents and fellows on preventing, assessing and treating the condition. The new competencies were published June 24 in the journal Obesity and highlighted as an Editor’s Choice article.

High-need, high-care patients taking part in focus group discussions arranged by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have identified steps for reducing overuse of emergency departments and other hospital services to deliver effective care in less expensive ways.

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have shown that giving mice with triple-negative breast cancer therapeutic microRNA (miRNA) in a protective gold nanoparticle results in significantly less spreading of cancer to the lung.