Medical research
How highly mobile populations can skew local COVID-19 wastewater trends
If you thought the waters of data-driven research couldn't get any murkier, you haven't met the team of scientists studying our sewage.
Feb 27, 2023
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News tagged with policy
Medications
High drug prices are not justified by industry's research and development spending, argue experts
High drug prices are not justified by industry's spending on research and development (R&D), argue experts in The BMJ today.
Feb 15, 2023
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Pediatrics
Children of overprotective parents tend to live less, study suggests
Men who had an overprotective father and little autonomy during childhood may run a 12% higher risk of dying before their eightieth birthday. In the case of women who had an overprotective father, the risk of dying before ...
Feb 6, 2023
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Medications
Study: California's proposal to manufacture insulin could curb prices, improve public health
A new paper co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign legal scholar argues that the state of California's proposal to manufacture and distribute insulin at cost could be a game-changer for curbing out-of-control ...
Jan 24, 2023
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Neuroscience
Modality-independent proto-organization of human multisensory areas in the brain
To build a representation of the external world, and give it a coherent sense, our brain needs to process and integrate information coming from all our senses, including vision and hearing. But it remains an open debate whether ...
Jan 16, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Having strong social connections can improve your health, according to global study
The time people spent with family over the festive period could have improved their health, according to new research which examined how social bonds with close social circles and extended groups relate to health and psychological ...
Jan 13, 2023
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Medical economics
Paying people to take COVID vaccine worked well, study finds
A study finds that paying people to take a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine didn't lower the likelihood of seeking the second or third dose or of other positive health behaviors and didn't erode morals, sense of civic duty, ...
Jan 13, 2023
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Vaccination
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance increased globally last year, new 23-country survey shows
Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines increased globally, from 75.2% in 2021 to 79.1% in 2022, according to a survey in 23 countries that represent more than 60% of the world's population. However, vaccine acceptance decreased ...
Jan 9, 2023
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Medications
Study suggests one solution to America's opioid epidemic: Tell doctors their patients fatally overdosed
There are no simple solutions to America's deadly overdose epidemic, which costs 100,000 lives each year and is erasing gains in life expectancy. But a team of USC researchers have found one low-cost intervention can make ...
Jan 6, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Blood donation samples can be used to monitor progress of epidemics, studies show
An article published in the journal eLife reports a study in which researchers conclude that the proportion of the population previously infected by SARS-CoV-2 (infection-induced seroprevalence) can be estimated using blood ...
Dec 20, 2022
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