US adults found to eat a meal's worth of calories in snacks each day Snacks constitute almost a quarter of a day's calories in U.S. adults and account for about one-third of daily added sugar, a new study suggests. Dec 15, 2023 4 156
Hundreds of young people urgently needing a mental health bed are being admitted far from home, finds UK study Young people needing beds urgently for their mental health needs are waiting for long periods on acute general hospital wards, before being placed on wards far from where they live, according to a new study. Dec 15, 2023 7 0
Guiding principles to address bias in health care algorithms A paper published in JAMA Network Open addresses bias in health care algorithms and provides the health care community with guiding principles to avoid repeating errors that have tainted the use of algorithms in other sectors. Dec 15, 2023 0 0
A substantial number of Parkinson's disease cases can be attributed to preventable risk factors, researcher says New research published by neurology researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in npj Parkinson's Disease found that preventable risk factors play a significant role in a person's potential of developing Parkinson's ... Dec 15, 2023 0 68
Scientists find a 'scarcode' common across damaged organs Scarring goes more than skin deep. It can occur in any organ because of injury from smoking and excessive alcohol consumption or as a byproduct of chronic conditions like endometriosis, cardiovascular disease and autoimmune ... Dec 15, 2023 0 56
How research helped lead to FDA approval of a pediatric neuroblastoma drug In 2003, the first year of her fellowship in pediatric oncology, two of Giselle Saulnier Sholler's first three patients had died from neuroblastoma, closely matching the 30% survival rate expected at the time for high-risk ... Dec 15, 2023 0 16
Designing non-hallucinogenic psychedelic treatments that may accelerate research on mental health benefits There is nothing magic about the recent increase in interest around the study of psychedelic drugs as potential treatments for patients suffering from a myriad of mental health conditions. Dec 15, 2023 0 33
Study assesses well-being of US veterans More than a decade ago, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs launched a national initiative, termed Whole Health, that takes a holistic approach to health care, emphasizing personalized care plans that address the physical, ... Dec 15, 2023 1 0
Developing deep learning models to understand the human genome Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a deep learning algorithm capable of identifying the location where a genetic process called polyadenylation occurs on the genome, according to findings published in Nature ... Dec 15, 2023 0 6
New framework to identify genetic risk of disease could lead to targeted therapeutics Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on patient blood samples are useful for identifying the genetic basis of blood cell traits and their links to common diseases. While previous experiments have focused on characterizing ... Dec 15, 2023 0 22