An increase in mortality among middle-aged Americans—largely attributed to "deaths of despair" from suicide, drug overdoses, and alcoholic liver disease—has been frequently portrayed as a phenomenon affecting white communities. ...
Jan 26, 2023
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Psychological trauma from extreme weather and climate events, such as wildfires, can have long-term impacts on survivors' brains and cognitive functioning, especially how they process distractions, my team's new research ...
Jan 22, 2023
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Negotiations on a draft global agreement to better combat the next pandemic will begin in February next year, the WHO announced after three days of discussions in Geneva.
Dec 8, 2022
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The human microbiome has been a hot topic over the last decade, with research pointing to disrupted bacterial communities as culprits for a host of maladies including irritable bowel syndrome, eczema, and autoimmune diseases. ...
Nov 28, 2022
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People with neurologic diseases like headache, dementia, multiple sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's disease may experience worsening symptoms due to climate change, according to a scoping review of research published in the ...
Nov 16, 2022
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Ten months after transplanting the first genetically-modified pig heart into a human patient, University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers continue to report on new findings from the landmark transplant. ...
Nov 14, 2022
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Clinical trials are most likely to establish a causal relationship and attribute the benefits observed in the outcomes to the treatments. Effective data sharing and re-use of completed trial data can advance science and improve ...
Oct 20, 2022
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An international team of scientists from the UK, Spain, Denmark and Russia conducted an experiment demonstrating that people automatically integrate extralinguistic information into grammatical processing during verbal communication. ...
Sep 23, 2022
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Communities seeking to form or sustain a successful prevention coalition may benefit from having a community champion who can support their efforts, according to a new study by Penn State and UTHealth Houston.
Sep 16, 2022
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Mental illness is a growing public health problem. In 2019, an estimated 1 in 8 people around the world were affected by mental disorders like depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. While scientists have long known ...
Sep 13, 2022
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