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I have been teaching a course on rural criminology since 2014, and most of my students are surprised by the information on violence against women presented to them. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-rural-women-higher-violence.html Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:58:06 EDT news675341882 Experts have warned against simply throwing money and new equipment at disadvantaged communities to tackle the problem of inequitable health care. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-equipment-graveyards-tech-doesnt-result.html Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:51:05 EDT news670578662 UNSW researchers have developed a new microgel made of moth silk that is designed to assist with tissue regeneration and could help people recover from heart attacks. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-supercharged-silk-heart.html Wed, 07 Aug 2024 10:05:46 EDT news642243941 Research from Saint Louis University School of Medicine finds improvements in survival in both veterans and men across the country over the last 20 years in metastatic prostate cancer, which correlate with new hormonal treatments. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-survival-patients-metastatic-prostate-cancer.html Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:03:17 EDT news638107392 The largest study to date investigating a single invitation to a PSA blood test to screen for prostate cancer has found it had a small impact on reducing deaths, but also led to overdiagnosis and missed early detection of some aggressive cancers. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-screening-psa-small-impact-prostate.html Sat, 06 Apr 2024 02:30:01 EDT news631542181 Researchers create database of more than 280 crowd accidents over the past 120 years and propose new "Swiss Cheese" model aimed at reducing deaths and injuries down to zero in future. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-overseas-hot-areas-deadly-crowd.html Wed, 17 May 2023 15:11:42 EDT news603555095 To survive, every cell in the body puts enormous energy into sustaining the right balance of water and essential electrolytes. Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed a way to use magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, scanning to map this activity in fine detail in the human brain and other organs. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-mri-reveals-cells-energy-tissues.html Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:04:04 EDT news599490241 Engineers from UNSW Sydney have developed a miniature and flexible soft robotic arm that could be used to 3D-print biomaterial directly onto organs inside a person's body. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-3d-bioprinting-human-body-soft.html Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:26:05 EST news596737562 Did you ever dream of one day having X-ray vision or running as fast as a cheetah? Maybe you've imagined the benefits of lifting a car with just one hand, or being able to hear the sound of an ant's footsteps. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-12-bionic-superhuman-worthfor.html Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:40:01 EST news558868720 British authorities warned of the dangers of large gatherings for Sunday's Euro 2020 football final, fearful of the highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant that is firing outbreaks across the world. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-07-euro-fuels-outbreak-nations-virus.html Sun, 11 Jul 2021 05:00:57 EDT news545198454 The desperately awaited vaccination drive against the coronavirus in the U.S. is running into resistance from an unlikely quarter: Surprising numbers of health care workers who have seen firsthand the death and misery inflicted by COVID-19 are refusing shots. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-vaccine-rollout-snag-health-workers.html Fri, 08 Jan 2021 12:20:01 EST news529330041 According to data collected by a team of Arizona State University researchers, students struggle to balance the safety of vulnerable family members with the need for peer connection. Led by Professor Vince Waldron of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, the team interviewed on- and off-campus university students as they began the fall 2020 semester to discern what moral messages informed their decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-students-react-moral-messages-covid-.html Tue, 22 Dec 2020 09:20:01 EST news527849903 If physical distancing measures in the United States are relaxed while there is still no COVID-19 vaccine or treatment and while personal protective equipment remains in short supply, the number of resulting infections could be about the same as if distancing had never been implemented to begin with, according to a UCLA-led team of mathematicians and scientists. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-physical-distancing-naught.html Fri, 24 Jul 2020 07:58:59 EDT news514796334 Many people suspect they've been infected with COVID-19 by now, despite the fact that only 0.5% of the UK's population has actually been diagnosed with it. Similar numbers have been reported in other countries. Exactly how many people have actually had it, however, is unclear. There is also uncertainty around what proportion of people who get COVID-19 die as a result, though many models assume it is around 1%. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-people-coronavirus-previously.html Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:20:01 EDT news512382601 Suppose we wanted to estimate how many car owners there are in the UK and how many of those own a Ford Fiesta, but we only have data on those people who visited Ford car showrooms in the last year. If 10% of the showroom visitors owned a Fiesta, then, because of the bias in the sample, this would certainly overestimate the proportion of Ford Fiesta owners in the country. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-coronavirus-country-comparisons-pointless-account.html Fri, 03 Apr 2020 09:59:18 EDT news505126756 As the number of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 continues to rise across the U.S., addressing the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers has become increasingly urgent. Institutions and organizations across the country—including MIT—have been scrambling to collect and send unused face masks to local hospitals. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-d-personal-equipment.html Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:50:04 EDT news504520995 Our muscles grow as a result of regular exercise and can waste away when not frequently or strenuously used, leading to the popular maxim: "Use it or lose it." But a new review of what we know about muscles during periods of regular exercise or disuse casts doubt over long-held beliefs about how our muscles grow and adapt. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-01-gym-wont-muscle-mass.html Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:50:01 EST news467631457 Sirens scream non-stop through the urban heart of Vancouver, as responders race toward drug addicts overdosing—and dying in such numbers that the city's morgues are full. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-01-canada-deadly-fentanyl-overdose-crisis.html Tue, 03 Jan 2017 03:38:50 EST news402637123 A study of four common medical conditions suggests hospitals that used intensive care units (ICUs) more frequently were more likely to perform invasive procedures and have higher costs while showing no improvement in mortality, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-08-icu-invasive-procedures-higher.html Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:33:40 EDT news389874811 Cholesterol-lowering statins have transformed the treatment of heart disease. But while the decision to use the drugs in patients with a history of heart attacks and strokes is mostly clear-cut, that choice can be a far trickier proposition for the tens of millions of Americans with high cholesterol but no overt disease. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-03-statin-physicians-patients.html Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:00:01 EDT news346938159 Jennifer Reilly was 28 years old when she began experiencing some odd symptoms. Half of her left hand went numb. She could move her fingers, but she couldn't feel anything on the outer part of that hand. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-young-adults.html Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:10:04 EDT news333872713 A new study has found that certain prostate cancer medications are linked with an increased risk of dying from heart-related causes in men with congestive heart failure or prior heart attacks. Published in BJU International, the findings will help doctors and patients weigh the benefits and risks of the drugs. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-prostate-cancer-medications-linked-heart-related.html Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:00:01 EDT news333729909 Vasectomy was associated with a small increased risk of prostate cancer, and a stronger risk for advanced or lethal prostate cancer according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The researchers found that the association remained even among men who received regular PSA screening, suggesting the increased risk of lethal cancer cannot be explained by diagnostic bias. It is the largest and most comprehensive study to date to look at the link between vasectomy and prostate cancer. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-07-vasectomy-aggressive-prostate-cancer.html Wed, 09 Jul 2014 18:02:14 EDT news324147715 (Medical Xpress)—Watching films with stressful scenes can trigger changes to the heart's beating pattern, reports a new study published in the journal Circulation, Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-05-stressful-movies-triggers-heartbeat.html Fri, 16 May 2014 08:10:01 EDT news319444515 Researchers from the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, are calling for the regulation of a new breed of devices designed to enhance the brain's performance. Cognitive enhancement devices (CEDs) offer the tantalising prospect of potentially making users' brains work faster, more effectively, and more creatively, and are now being marketed for gaming and education. But current European legislation subjects these devices to nothing more than basic product safety requirements, despite them directly modifying the electrical activity of the brain. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-policy-paper-regulatory-cognitive-devices.html Thu, 24 Apr 2014 08:23:31 EDT news317546591 A new endoscopic surgical procedure has been shown to be safer and to result in better outcomes than the current standard medical treatment for patients who suffer strokes as a result of brain hemorrhages, UCLA neurosurgeons have announced. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-brain-hemorrhage-patients.html Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:32:31 EST news279876703 Within the next 20 years it is expected the number of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) will double from its current figure of half a million to one million. A new study has looked at whether certain types of drugs used to treat high blood pressure, also called hypertension, might have beneficial effects in reducing the number of new cases of Alzheimer's disease each year. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-hypertension-drugs-people-alzheimer.html Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:06:58 EDT news238064798