Eighty-five original research projects from aspiring physician-scientists were on display at the 2026 Medical Student Research Forum at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

Frailty is the thing surgeons all sense during clinic — slow gait, multiple comorbidities, that “this feels riskier than it should” intuition — but rarely quantify.

Frailty and sarcopenia are prevalent, prognostically important geriatric syndromes, yet systematic assessment is limited by time, training, and access to specialist care. Kennedy and colleagues ...

Department of Infectious Diseases, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. This study employed a cross-sectional survey method, enrolling 477 hospitalized patients ...

Heart failure (HF) is often complicated by frailty. We evaluated the prognostic value of the Frailty Index based on laboratory tests (FI‐lab) and the Clinical Frailty Scale, as well as their combined ...

Heart failure (HF) is often complicated by frailty. We evaluated the prognostic value of the Frailty Index based on laboratory tests (FI‐lab) and the Clinical Frailty Scale, as well as their combined ...

The bumpy trajectory of human aging may have a tipping point as we enter our twilight years, a new study has found. Past the age of around 75, our bodies can no longer easily recover from injury or ...

The laboratory-based Frailty Index showed strong predictive ability for mortality and relapse in patients with carbapenemase-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections. “Unlike traditional ...

Frailty was most strongly correlated with 6MWD, with odds of frailty decreasing by 10% for every 10-meter increase in 6MWD. Frailty and accelerated aging are common in pulmonary hypertension (PH), ...