Four themes identified as contributors to diseases of despair in Pennsylvania
Credit: Penn State Hershey, Pa. -- Financial instability, lack of infrastructure, a deteriorating sense of community and family fragmentation are ...
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Study IDs risk factors for irregular heartbeats in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients
Credit: UVA Health New research will help doctors identify, treat and prevent potentially dangerous irregular heartbeats in patients with hypertrophic ...
New WHO study links moderate alcohol use with higher cancer risk
One in four new breast cancers and one in five colon cancers in Canada attributed to alcoholCredit: World Health Organization's ...
COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality: Sex differences
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 13, 2021--Males with COVID-19 had significantly higher rates of hospitalization ...
US saw surge in firearm purchases and violence during first months of COVID-19 pandemic
Researchers found an association between an increase in gun purchases and domestic violence, but not other firearm violenceCredit: UC Regents ...
Dignity support at end of life
How a two-way approach can promote quality careCredit: Flinders University At the end of life, people may have to rely ...
Modelling COVID-19 cases in Africa
Credit: Lancaster University An international team including Lancaster University researchers has created a strategy for understanding the evolution of the ...
Could genetics hold the key to preventing SIDS?
Credit: Unsplash A state-of-the-art genetic biobank could hold the key to preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), potentially saving the ...
Study suggests scientists may need to rethink which genes control aging
NIH scientists discover that bacteria may drive activity of many hallmark aging genes in flies To better understand the role ...
Sacred natural sites protect biodiversity in Iran
Research team from the Universities of Kassel, Göttingen and Kurdistan investigate this form of local nature conservation How much do ...
First evidence that medieval plague victims were buried individually with ‘considerable care’
In the mid-14th century Europe was devastated by a major pandemic - the Black Death - which killed between 40 ...
Researchers test model to predict drug overdose deaths in US
Predictive tools could help counties preemptively deliver public health resources For two decades, the number of Americans who die each ...
Alarming rising trends in suicide by firearms in young Americans
FAU Schmidt College of Medicine and collaborators publish original research Deaths from suicide are rising in the United States. These ...
Important to reduce patients’ time respiratory intensive care with mechanical ventilation
More active efforts to reduce patients' time on a ventilator in an ICU can both spare their suffering and free ...
Most Californians unaware of law to prevent gun violence but would support using it
Gun violence restraining orders offer judicial pathway for removal of firearms from people at risk of causing harm (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) ...
Antibiotics no help for mysterious lung-scarring disease, large trial finds
Doctors have hoped that antibiotics could benefit patients with chronic lung diseases, but a new study has found no benefit ...
Obesity protects against death in severe bacterial infection
Credit: Photo by Elin Lindström, photo: private For many diseases, overweight and obesity are risk factors. But now a study ...
The Lancet: Experts call for urgent action to reduce global burden of cardiovascular disease in women by 2030
Credit: The Lancet The Lancet women and cardiovascular disease Commission outlines 10 ambitious recommendations to improve health outcomes for millions ...
Artificial intelligence tool uses chest X-ray to differentiate worst cases of COVID-19
Credit: CREDIT Courtesy of Nature Publishing or npj Digital Medicine Trained to see patterns by analyzing thousands of chest X-rays, ...
Phenomenon explains why patients who survive sepsis die sooner after hospital discharge
A review article by Brazilian researchers shows that alterations in the defense cell metabolism may explain why many patients who ...
