Health
The impact of COVID-19 on food-shopping behavior for food-insecure populations
The COVID-19 pandemic changed just about every aspect of normal life, including how we bought food.
Jul 13, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mobility data used to respond to COVID-19 can leave out older and non-white people
Information on individuals' mobility—where they go as measured by their smartphones—has been used widely in devising and evaluating ways to respond to COVID-19, including how to target public health resources. Yet little ...
Mar 17, 2021
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Pediatrics
Machine learning models identify kids at risk of lead poisoning
Machine learning can help public health officials identify children most at risk of lead poisoning, enabling them to concentrate their limited resources on preventing poisonings rather than remediating homes only after a ...
Sep 16, 2020
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Medical research
Detailed dataset of measures to curb COVID-19 ready for statistical analyses
To know which non-pharmaceutical interventions against the spread of coronavirus worked best, researchers and health authorities need data. In March, the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) started a comprehensive worldwide ...
Aug 27, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A lottery for ventilators
As cases of COVID-19 rise around the world, there has been a surge in the hospitalization of COVID-19 patients in the United States, India and Brazil. Many are concerned by the ability of the healthcare systems to cope under ...
Aug 5, 2020
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Addiction
Young Australians would use cannabis if it were legal to do so
A number of young Australians say they would use cannabis for the first time if it were legal, a UQ study has found.
Jul 30, 2020
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Not children, but 'super-happy families' the aim of assisted reproduction
Researcher Judith Lind has studied how staff at fertility clinics view the assessments that childless couples and women undergo in order to access assisted reproduction. It emerges in the interviews that the assessment of ...
Jun 4, 2020
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Health
Survey identifies learning opportunities related to health impacts of climate change
An international survey of Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) membership found that the majority of members—health professions schools and programs, including medical, nursing, and public health—offer ...
May 28, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A quick pivot turns an infectious disease class into timely education
Biologist David Roos studied influenza as a grad student, and he typically kicks off his advanced course on infectious disease biology with a focus on that virus. That's how he began this semester, too, with plans to also ...
Apr 7, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Reconnecting with nature key for the health of people and the planet
Individuals who visit natural spaces weekly, and feel psychologically connected to them, report better physical and mental wellbeing, new research has shown.
Feb 13, 2020
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