Step up: How to build a walking habit, 500 steps at a time
Starting a walking routine takes very little: comfortable, supportive shoes and your own two feet.
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Environment and Public Health: News and Research on Epidemiologic Methods
MeSH tree: N06.850.520
AI misuse and nuclear famine could threaten humanity's survival before 2100
The fate of global health does not rest on any single disease. True preparedness means pairing the fight against illness with strength in finance, climate, defense and security. The COVID-19 pandemic, which brought the world ...
Bigger data reveal the second, third and fourth switches controlling a gene
We now take for granted the idea that a genome-wide association study, or GWAS, can help identify genetic variants associated with complex traits. Such studies have identified loci associated with everything from breast cancer ...
Oct 13, 2026
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Targeted radioactive therapy may help delay spread of recurrent prostate cancer
Adding the targeted radioactive drug 177Lu-PNT2002 to stereotactic body radiation therapy, or SBRT, may help keep recurrent prostate cancer under control longer than SBRT alone, according to new research led by investigators ...
Oct 13, 2026
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A new approach to kidney matching could save lives
Although more than 100,000 people are on the national transplant waiting list in the U.S., thousands of donated kidneys are discarded each year, often because they're slightly older, with fewer years of remaining function.
Oct 13, 2026
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How 'people power' and business transformed medicine, but created a whole new set of risks
There's been a shift in how some medicines and therapeutic products are accessed and used.
Oct 12, 2026
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The circumstances you grow up in are linked to how long you live
Poorer people, on average, live shorter lives. This pattern can be seen even in wealthy countries with extensive welfare systems. In Norway, for example, 40-year-old men in the richest 1% could expect to live almost 14 years ...
Oct 10, 2026
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Randomized trial finds targeting individual metastases in oligometastatic breast cancer does not improve survival
Treating individual metastatic tumors with highly focused radiation or surgery did not improve progression-free or overall survival for patients with oligometastatic breast cancer receiving first-line systemic therapy, according ...
Oct 8, 2026
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New genetic insights could help detect hearing loss earlier
A team of hearing specialists at Vanderbilt Health analyzed thousands of data samples in the institution's BioVU biobank to understand genetic susceptibility of sensorineural hearing loss, which is caused by damage to the ...
Oct 8, 2026
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Global injury crisis highlights urgent need for smarter trauma care
A study of almost 9,000 injury patients across Africa and South Asia has found that nearly half were dead or disabled after three months—highlighting the need for smarter, locally tailored trauma-care systems.
Oct 8, 2026
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