Health informatics
'Are you married?' Why doctors ask invasive questions during treatment
It's a rare occasion when my worlds of biomedical informatics and serialized lesbian melodrama fandom collide.
Dec 11, 2025
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Infections: News and Research on Virus Diseases
MeSH tree: C01.925
Medications
ADHD prescriptions on the rise in Ontario, study finds
Annual prescriptions for drugs to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) increased 157% in Ontario from 2015 to 2023, according to a new study from researchers at ICES, North York General, and The Hospital ...
Dec 11, 2025
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Health
Violence against women and children among top health threats, global study reveals
Sexual violence against children and intimate partner violence against women are two of the most devastating yet persistently underrecognized global health challenges and rank among the top risks for mortality and morbidity ...
Dec 9, 2025
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Health
AI as 'an ally' to improve sexual health in Latin America
"We all have the right to receive information in our native language," says Peruvian obstetrician Ana Miluzka Baca Gamarra.
Dec 9, 2025
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
While scientists race to study spread of measles in US, Kennedy unravels hard-won gains
The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status next year. If that happens, the country will enter an era in which outbreaks are common again.
Dec 9, 2025
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Among psychologists, AI use is up, but so are concerns
More than half of psychologists experimented with artificial intelligence tools in their practices in the past year, but almost all cite concerns about how the technology may affect their patients and society, according to ...
Dec 9, 2025
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Psychology & Psychiatry
School reopening during COVID-19 pandemic associated with improvement in children's mental health
Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic was linked with significantly lower rates of mental health diagnoses among children, including anxiety, depression, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and a ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Two deaths linked to rabies-infected kidney transplant
A rare case of rabies linked to an organ transplant has resulted in two deaths, federal health officials announced.
Dec 8, 2025
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Biomedical technology
Why we created a phone-sized device to take blood diagnostics out of the lab into the real world
When your doctor thinks you might have an infection or an allergy, a simple blood test should give answers within hours. But for much of the world, that test can take days—or never happen at all. The problem is not usually ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Pediatrics
Vaccine panel ends recommendation for hep B shot at birth
A federal vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to end its decades-old recommendation that all babies be vaccinated at birth against hepatitis B.
Dec 8, 2025
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