Health
Exercise can preserve astronauts' heart health on long space flights
Extensive exercise regimens are keeping astronauts healthy and protecting their hearts during extended space missions, new research finds.
Oct 2, 2023
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Health informatics
50 years after being outlawed, redlining still drives neighborhood health inequities
Decades of redlining—a longstanding banking practice that blocked people of color from getting mortgages—continue to perpetuate racial and socioeconomic inequality in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the country, ...
Sep 29, 2023
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Medical research
Cleared to launch? Ethical guidelines needed for human research in commercial spaceflight
The commercial spaceflight industry is expanding opportunities for scientific research in space, but the industry needs clear ethical guidelines before human research is ready for liftoff.
Sep 28, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Study offers way to increase immune checkpoint inhibitor effectiveness in patients with MTAP-deleted cancers
Loss of the "housekeeping" gene methylthioadenosine phosphorylase, or MTAP, is a common event in cancer. Patients with melanoma or bladder cancer whose tumor cells lack a functioning version of the gene tend not to respond ...
Sep 28, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Ticks are becoming a growing health risk in the UK. Here's why
Earlier this year, the UK Health Security Agency confirmed a case of tick-borne encephalitis—a potentially deadly virus carried by ticks that causes brain inflammation. A British man is also said to have contracted alpha-gal ...
Aug 22, 2023
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Health
Who gets to be healthy? 'Social determinants of health' can reduce inequities, but many policies neglect them
The "social determinants of health" is a fancy way of describing a simple idea: that a person's health is influenced not just by what they eat or do but also by social factors.
Aug 21, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Community safe spaces could improve mental well-being and ease health care system pressures
There is a growing momentum for the creation of community-based safe spaces for people experiencing emotional distress or suicidal crises, as an alternative to visiting hospitals and emergency departments.
Aug 16, 2023
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Health informatics
Sick of sports? Study shows flu deaths rise when pro sports teams move into cities
West Virginia University economists, whose research shows flu deaths increase when a city becomes home to a new professional sports team, say their data should make even the biggest fans reconsider support for taxpayer-funded ...
Aug 7, 2023
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Health
Home sweet parking lot: Some hospitals welcome RV living for patients, families, and workers
Jim Weaver has had two major surgeries in the past decade: one to remove cancerous tumors from his bladder and another to clear a blocked artery.
Aug 2, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
The socioeconomic gap in behaviors that contribute to diseases is widening, study shows
New research shows increasing levels of inequality in risk factors that causes higher levels of health conditions such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
Aug 2, 2023
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