Goal-setting and positive parent-child relationships reduce risk of youth vaping
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, July 26, 2021 - Adolescents who set goals for their future and those with strong parental support ...
Tag: Epidemiology
UMass Amherst grad student awarded fellowship for food allergy research
USDA program focuses on developing next generation of food scientistsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food science Ph.D. candidate ...
Less-sensitive COVID-19 tests may still achieve optimal results if enough people tested
Analysis suggests same epidemiological outcomes possible with rapid-antigen versus RT-PCR testsCredit: Philip Cherian, Sandeep Krishna and Gautam Menon, 2021, PLOS ...
Cardio-cerebrovascular disease history complicates hematopoietic cell transplant outcomes
Researchers find pre-transplant cardiovascular diseases indirectly affect mortality and survival through increased post-transplant disease occurrenceCredit: Chinese Medical Journal Hematopoietic cell ...
UMass Amherst professor honored for lifetime achievement in problem gambling research
Volberg leads studies on impacts of Massachusetts casinosCredit: UMass Amherst Not long after earning her Ph.D. in sociology and losing ...
Public trust in CDC, FDA, and Fauci holds steady, survey shows
But heavy users of conservative media have less confidence and are more likely to believe in conspiracy theoriesCredit: Annenberg Public ...
Of lives and life years: 1918 influenza vs COVID-19
Next time, vaccination may be too little, too lateCredit: CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases, January 2006 From the onset of the ...
COVID-19 antibodies persist at least nine months after infection
Credit: Andrea Crisanti Testing of an entire Italian town shows antibody levels remain high nine months after SARS-CoV-2 infection, whether ...
Study finds vaccine hesitancy lower in poorer countries
New study examines vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in 10 low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Africa, and South AmericaCredit: Fadil ...
Short chain fatty acids: An ‘ace in the hole’ against SARS-CoV-2 infection
Scientists find that short chain fatty acids can be used to reduce susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality from COVID-19Credit: ...
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 ...
USF awarded four-year, $69.9 million NIH grant to continue type 1 diabetes research
The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young study is led by USF Health's Jeffrey Krischer, who has built a ...
COVID-causing coronavirus following predictable mutational footsteps
Similarities in locations, types of mutations could inform responses to future SARS-CoV-2 strainsCredit: Scott Schrage, University of Nebraska-Lincoln New research ...
Project Air View maps ultrafine particles, soot and other substances in Amsterdam air
Credit: Google Maps & Utrecht University Over the past two years, the municipality of Amsterdam, Utrecht University and Google have ...