Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Climate change threatens progress against schistosomiasis in Brazil

In Brazil, climate and other human-made environmental changes threaten decades-long efforts to fight a widespread and debilitating parasitic disease. Now, a partnership between researchers from Stanford and Brazil is helping ...

Health

Fatal opioid overdoses reduce US life expectancy by nearly a year

In the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, opioid-related deaths cut the nation's average life expectancy at birth by eight months, according to new research published in The Lancet Regional Health–Americas. The findings ...

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Children who miss breakfast are less happy in life

Children who frequently miss breakfast have lower life satisfaction than those who regularly eat a morning meal, according to a study of nearly 150,000 young people across the world.

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