Height and weight charts have been used for decades to monitor child development. A paper published in The Lancet now presents a new application that enables health care professionals to keep a regular check on the development ...
Mar 13, 2024
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For cancer patients, the harsh side effects of powerful drugs have long been the trade-off for living longer. Now, patients and doctors are questioning whether all that suffering is necessary.
Feb 6, 2024
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Researchers from seven Environment for Development (EfD) centers plus the EfD Global Hub, located at the University of Gothenburg, have conducted an extensive survey on how serious people perceive COVID-19.
Jan 26, 2024
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Lung development in the fetus occurs at low oxygen tension in the womb, but after a very premature birth, the partly developed lungs of the tiny infants experience far greater oxygen tensions even without the prolonged supplemental ...
Oct 21, 2023
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Smoke covered large swathes of Australia during the catastrophic summer fires of 2019-2020. You could see the plumes from space. Over 20% of Australia's forests went up in smoke and flame.
Sep 29, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have found that vaping nicotine during pregnancy may be no safer for a developing fetus than smoking cigarettes. The study suggests that vaping nicotine interferes ...
Jul 5, 2023
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New research finds extracellular vesicles are present in the lungs of premature babies and may be involved in lung development and as a predictor of lung disease. The study is published ahead of print in the American Journal ...
Apr 6, 2023
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There's been plenty of scientific debate about whether vaping is safer than tobacco, and whether it may help some people stop smoking.
Feb 8, 2023
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Greater use of cancer tests is the key to tailoring use of new treatments for patients more precisely and so increasing their chances of being recommended for use within the NHS, experts say.
Jan 31, 2023
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Through the ESPRESSO cohort, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, University of Newcastle, Australia, University of Washington, Seattle, and Karolinska Institutet examined the risk of cancer among 75,000 ...
Oct 28, 2022
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