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When lasting trauma is caused by callous acts of violence, the key to recovery can be making meaning out of...

In era of #MeToo, majority of employees say their employers fail to take new steps addressing sexual harassment

WASHINGTON -- The spotlight on workplace sexual harassment since fall 2017 has led to high-profile resignations, terminations and lawsuits. And...

Plant medicines, healing and psychedelic science

Credit: Springer This edited volume addresses psychedelic science from three different viewpoints. The first addresses the way social scientists and...

Gonorrhea surveillance study maps antibiotic resistance across Europe

The first European-wide genomic survey of gonorrhoea has mapped antibiotic resistance in this sexually transmitted disease throughout the continent. Researchers...

Six years of exercise — or lack of it — may be enough to change heart failure risk

By analyzing reported physical activity levels over time in more than 11,000 American adults, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers conclude that...

Researchers call for transgender-inclusive healthcare providers

More should be done to take care of the mental health of transgender people in the US, a new survey...

Per-capita end-of-life spending is decreasing rapidly, according to new study

Credit: via JAMA IM Health economists have long considered end-of-life spending to be one of the major contributors to the...

Researchers identify the most accurate risk prediction models for selecting whom to screen

Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal Medicine....

Study hints at new target to improve immune therapy in triple-negative breast cancer

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Therapies that recruit the immune system to attack tumors are revolutionizing cancer care. Among...

Uncertainty in long-run economic growth likely points toward greater emissions, climate change costs

URBANA, Ill. - For scientists, estimating the extent of and cost of damages from climate change over the next 100...

Early BPA exposure may influence cardiac function, according to new study in neonatal rats

Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - (May 14, 2018) - More than 8 million pounds of bisphenol A (BPA)...

Hungry, hungry hippos

The average hippo weighs more than 3,000 pounds and consumes about 100 pounds of vegetation daily. This naturally results in...

Altered body odor indicates malaria even if microscope doesn’t

Credit: Jim Gathany / CDC Typhoid Mary may have infected a hundred or more people, but asymptomatic carriers of malaria...

Deadly cancers show early, detectable differences from benign tumors