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Nature Medicine, Published online: 05 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03823-3

A clinical trial using continuous glucose monitoring found that a Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)-style diet tailored for diabetes reduced hyperglycemia and improved glucose control compared to a typical American diet in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Beginning this fall, Ohio State University will require its students to enroll in a mandatory artificial intelligence (AI) skills seminar that aligns with their academic major. According to university executive vice president for academic affairs Ravi Bellamkonda, OSU’s AI Fluency initiative will result in students who are “‘bilingual’ — fluent in both their major field of study and the application of AI in that area.” Ohio State isn’t the first university to bring AI into the academic setting. Earlier this year, the California State University system announced that it’s partnering with tech companies like Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and others to create a customized chatbot that will be implemented across all CSU campuses. The platform would be similar to Duke University’s recently released “DukeGPT.”

Nature Medicine, Published online: 04 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41591-025-00049-1

After decades of underinvestment, the development of antifungal drugs is gaining momentum.

Nature Medicine, Published online: 04 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03842-0

A free-living trial in people with overweight or obesity found that minimally processed diets led to greater weight loss and cardiometabolic improvements than ultraprocessed diets following UK healthy eating guidelines at 8 weeks.

Nature Medicine, Published online: 04 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03896-0

Publisher Correction: Personalized, autologous neoantigen-specific T cell therapy in metastatic melanoma: a phase 1 trial

Nature Medicine, Published online: 04 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03912-3

Competing explanations account for education’s link to better memory and brain structure in older age. By analyzing more than 400,000 memory scores and over 15,000 MRI scans, we found the association likely reflects earlier-life factors rather than neuroprotection against age-related cognitive or brain decline, challenging the dominant theories of the role of education in cognitive aging.

Nature Medicine, Published online: 01 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03867-5

Five-year follow-up and prespecified exploratory biomarker analysis from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-426 trial show that pembrolizumab plus axitinib compared to sunitinib as first-line therapy continues to show overall and progression-free survival benefits in patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma and indicate that a T-cell-inflamed gene expression profile is predictive of response.

Nature Medicine, Published online: 01 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03862-w

Intravenous iron treatment lowers the risk of repeated hospitalizations for heart failure and cardiovascular death in patients with iron deficiency and heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction. The therapy has a good safety profile, and its benefits are most pronounced within the first year of treatment, when iron dosing is highest.

Nature Medicine, Published online: 01 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03904-3

Publisher Correction: Feasibility of multiomics tumor profiling for guiding treatment of melanoma