An economic model by bioinformatics company Genpax published in Microbial Genomics concludes that in England the National Health Service (NHS) could save close to £0.5bn and prevent 1,200 avoidable deaths, and the US health ...
Aug 23, 2023
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Simply the smell of seafood can make those with an allergy to it violently ill—and therefore more likely to avoid it. The same avoidance behavior is exhibited by people who develop food poisoning after eating a certain ...
Jul 13, 2023
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Past social trauma is encoded by a population of stress/threat-responsive brain cells that become hyperactivated during subsequent interaction with non-threatening social targets. As a consequence, previously rewarding social ...
Nov 30, 2022
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HKUMed researchers at the WHO Collaborating Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) found a significant reduction in ...
Nov 28, 2022
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In a largely neglected brain region, scientists identified neurons that produce the stress hormone CRH (corticotropin-releasing hormone). They showed that the CRH produced in this region plays a role in behavioral arousal, ...
Nov 25, 2022
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Health and social care workers were often let down by the government whose claims that it was 'guided by the science' when developing policy to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic were questionable, according to an editorial ...
Aug 31, 2022
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During the pre-Omicron phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, regions of the U.S. had markedly different mortality rates, primarily due to differences in mask use, school attendance, social distancing, and other behaviors. Had ...
Apr 28, 2022
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A national study examines the link between perceived relationship with God and mental health from a sample of more than 1,600 Americans. The research suggests that religious believers who relate to God in an uncertain or ...
Jan 5, 2022
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When you're stressed, do you ever feel like you just don't want to be around other people? According to a Dartmouth study, greater levels of stress on a given day were found to be predictive of decreases in social interaction ...
Oct 5, 2021
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Lower rates of hospital attendance for urgent heart problems during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic may have contributed to avoidable deaths in England, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
Dec 21, 2020
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