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July 26, 2024

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Does the Onset of Daylight Saving Time Lead to an Unhealthy Lifestyle?

July 23, 2024 — Consumers' attitudes and health behaviors respond negatively to the switch to daylight saving ...

Scientists Identify Possible New Transmission Factor in Hospital-Acquired Klebsiella Infections

July 22, 2024 — Scientists have identified a critical factor that may contribute to the spread of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), shedding light on why these infections are so difficult to combat. Their study ...

Virtual Reality Training for Physicians Aims to Heal Disparities in Black Maternal Health Care

July 22, 2024 — A virtual reality training series being developed for medical students and physicians teaches them about implicit bias in their communications with their patients who are people of color and how that ...

Cancer Risk: Many Welders Exposed to High Levels of Dangerous Fumes

July 21, 2024 — New research has revealed at least 46,000 Australian welders are exposed to high levels of dangerous, potentially cancer-causing fumes at work -- and little is being done to protect them. Research reveals about 90 per cent of workforce exposed to ...

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Unhealthy Sleep Linked to Diabetes in a Diverse Population

July 18, 2024 — Persistently unhealthy sleep, either not enough or too much, is associated with a significantly increased risk of Type 2 diabetes in a racially and economically diverse adult population, an ...

Nature-Based Solutions to Disaster Risk from Climate Change Are Cost Effective

July 16, 2024 — A new global assessment of scientific literature finds that nature-based solutions (NbS) are an economically effective method to mitigate risks from ...

How a Gene for Obesity Affects the Brain

July 15, 2024 — Researchers reveal how a gene called SH2B1 works in the brain to regulate food ...

American Diets Got Briefly Healthier, More Diverse During COVID-19 Pandemic, Study Finds

July 15, 2024 — American diets may have gotten healthier and more diverse in the months following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new ...

New Study Finds 40-Percent of Cancer Cases and Almost Half of All Deaths in the US Linked to Modifiable Risk Factors

July 11, 2024 — A new study finds four in 10 cancer cases and about one-half of all cancer deaths in adults 30 years old and older in the United States (or 713,340 ...

Young People Believe That Artificial Intelligence Is a Valuable Tool for Healthcare

July 10, 2024 — Children and young people are generally positive about artificial intelligence (AI) and think it should be used in modern ...

Rapid Growth, Persistent Challenges in Telemedicine Adoption Among US Hospitals

July 10, 2024 — A new study shows a significant increase in telemedicine services offered by U.S. hospitals from 2017 to 2022, while also highlighting persistent ...

A Gut Microbe Could Hold a Key to Help People Benefit from Healthy Foods

July 8, 2024 — In a study involving 50,000+ individuals from around the world, higher gut levels of Blastocystis, a single-celled organism commonly found in the digestive system, were linked to more favorable ...

Raw Milk Is Risky, but Airborne Transmission of H5N1 from Cow's Milk Is Inefficient in Mammals

July 8, 2024 — While H5N1 avian influenza virus taken from infected cow's milk makes mice and ferrets sick when dripped into their noses, airborne transmission of ...

Researchers Find Common Immune System Mechanism Between Pregnancy, Cancer

July 8, 2024 — Researchers found a molecular mechanism, shared in cancer and pregnancy, that suppresses the immune system. Block this mechanism, called B7-H4, and the immune system revs up to slow cancer's growth. ...

Nationwide Flood Models Poorly Capture Risks to Households and Properties, Study Finds

July 24, 2024 — Government agencies, insurance companies and disaster planners rely on national flood risk models from the private sector that aren't reliable at smaller levels such as neighborhoods and ...

COVID-19 Pandemic Slowed Progress Towards Health-Related Sustainable Development Goals and Increased Inequalities

July 24, 2024 — The COVID-19 pandemic significantly widened existing economic and health disparities between wealthy and low-income countries and slowed progress toward health-related Sustainable Development Goals ...

Risks and Benefits of Integrating AI Into Medical Decision-Making

July 23, 2024 — Researchers found that an artificial intelligence (AI) model solved medical quiz questions -- designed to test health professionals' ability to diagnose patients based on clinical images and a ...

Impact of Incarceration on Youth Health

July 19, 2024 — Health records and health care use show youth whose parents have been incarcerated have more physical and mental health challenges. Identifying those youth is a problem because most health systems ...

These Healthcare Professionals May Be Secret Weapon Against Hypertension, Study Says

July 19, 2024 — When it comes to community hypertension interventions, a new study found that pharmacists and community health workers had the best success in lowering blood pressure. These findings support the idea ...

Genetic Study Highlights Importance of Diversity in Understanding Health Disparities

July 18, 2024 — Researchers conduct large-scale studies with diverse groups to better understand the genetic factors that influence health and disease. The Million Veteran Program (MVP), for example, includes people ...

Improving HIV Treatment in Children and Adolescents -- The Right Way

July 18, 2024 — Globally, around 2.6 million children and adolescents are currently living with HIV, the majority of them in Africa. These young people are much more likely to experience treatment failure than ...

Ultra-Processed Food Makes Up Almost Two-Thirds of Calorie Intake of UK Adolescents, Study Finds

July 17, 2024 — Adolescents consume around two-thirds of their daily calories from ultra-processed foods (UPFs) new research has found. The study found that UPF consumption was highest among adolescents from ...

Boost in Infant Genetics Research Could Change Lives, Say Researchers

July 17, 2024 — Investment in research into genetics could dramatically improve educational policies and understanding of parenting in ways that could help all children, according to a new ...

Cell Donor's Socioeconomic Status Shapes Cancer Treatment Outcomes, New Study Finds

July 17, 2024 — New research demonstrates that the socioeconomic status (SES) of cell donors affects the health outcomes of blood cancer patients who underwent hematopoietic cell transplantation ...

Could Intensive Farming Raise Risk of New Pandemics?

July 16, 2024 — Industrialized farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases because of better control, biosecurity and separation of livestock. A new study examines the effect of social and ...

Greater Attention Needs to Be Paid to Malnutrition in the Sick and Elderly, Researchers Say

July 12, 2024 — As many as half of all patients admitted to hospital and other healthcare facilities are malnourished. This has serious consequences for the individual in terms of unnecessary suffering, poorer ...

Living Near Oil and Gas Activity Linked to Poor Mental Health During Preconception

July 12, 2024 — A new study suggests that people who are trying to conceive and live close to oil and gas development sites have a heightened risk of developing adverse mental health outcomes. The study found that ...

Many Youths Continue to Take Opioids Months After Surgical Procedures

July 11, 2024 — A multi-institutional study found that 1 in 6 youths fill an opioid prescription prior to surgery, and 3% of patients were still filling opioid prescriptions three to six months after surgery, ...

Trauma Medical Home: New Coordinated Care Model for Injured Older Adults

July 10, 2024 — Older adults who suffer serious injuries from a fall or a motor vehicle accident often have impaired long-term functioning and diminished quality of life. A new study has found the new Trauma Medical ...

When There's Money to Lose, Phone Usage While Driving Drops

July 10, 2024 — Researchers discovered that feedback plus cash incentives designed with insights from behavioral science reduces phone use while ...

Scientists Map How Deadly Bacteria Evolved to Become Epidemic

July 4, 2024 — Pseudomonas aeruginosa -- an environmental bacteria that can cause devastating multidrug-resistant infections, particularly in people with underlying lung conditions -- evolved rapidly and then ...

Watching Others' Biased Behavior Unconsciously Creates Prejudice

July 2, 2024 — We unconsciously form prejudice toward groups when we see biased people interact with members of a group. That is according to new research by psychologists, who show for the first time that ...

Crucial Gaps in Climate Risk Assessment Methods

July 2, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered significant flaws in current climate risk assessment techniques that could lead to a severe underestimation of climate-related financial losses for businesses and ...

Tax on Antibiotics Could Help Tackle Threat of Drug-Resistance

July 1, 2024 — Taxing certain antibiotics could help efforts to tackle the escalating threat of antibiotic resistance in humans, according to a new ...