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Psychology & Psychiatry

No 'smoking gun' mental health harm from internet: Study

Links between internet adoption and psychological well-being are small at most, despite popular assumptions about the negative psychological effects of internet technologies and platforms, according to a major international ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

New survey reveals that a quarter of UK adults mistrust others

A major new survey of trust and mistrust in the UK has revealed worryingly high levels of mistrust in society, with a quarter of respondents mistrustful of other people and a similar proportion keen for help to feel more ...

Medical economics

How a novel model resolves the key pandemic policy debates

Were lockdowns an effective response to COVID-19 or would it have been better to limit intervention and let individuals spontaneously reduce their own risk of infection? Three years on from the public health emergency that ...

Cardiology

AI tool could help thousands avoid fatal heart attacks

An AI tool that can predict 10-year risk of deadly heart attacks could transform treatment for patients who undergo CT scans to investigate chest pain, according to research presented today at the American Heart Association's ...

Neuroscience

First digital atlas of human fetal brain development published

A team of more than 200 researchers around the world, involving multiple health and scientific institutions, led by the University of Oxford, has published the first digital atlas showing the dynamics of normative maturation ...

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