Tag: Public Health

June 3, 2021

Credit: Unsplash A dash of milk could make all the difference to a healthy heart as new research from the ...

Electronic nose might “sniff out” COVID-19-infected people at mass scale

Electronic nose might "sniff out" COVID-19-infected people at mass scale, according to a preliminary proof-of-concept studyCredit: Kobi Snitz Article Title: ...

Study finds specialty behavioral health establishments increased, but more needs to be done

Credit: Indiana University The number of specialty behavioral health establishments, their workforce and their wages have increased steadily between 2011 ...

New study reveals how smoking during puberty can cause negative consequences in offspring

No Smoking Day 2021Credit: Eivind Senneset Smoking in early puberty in boys may have negative consequences for their future generations ...

App helps pregnant women to a healthy lifestyle

Credit: Emma Busk Winquist/LiU Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have developed an app to help women achieve a healthy ...

Low-wage earners spent less time at home during early pandemic lockdown

Researchers tracked data from millions of mobile phone users in major US metropolitan areas and compared the data to neighborhood ...

Future Pandemic? Consider Radically Altering Animal Agriculture Practices

FAU Bioethicist Offers Plausible Solutions to Mitigate Zoonotic Risk from Agriculture and Food Production for Public HealthCredit: Adam Bernstein As ...

$3 million grant aims to prolong life for dialysis patients

Statisticians take deep dive into mortality factorsCredit: Ashashyou The five-year survival rate for people on dialysis is under 50 percent. ...

Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare awarded to immigrant cofounders of pre-health dreamers

The Vilcek Foundation and The Arnold P. Gold Foundation have announced Dr. Jirayut 'New' Latthivongskorn and Dr. Denisse Rojas Marquez ...

COVID-19 simulation shows importance of safety efforts during vaccine distribution

Researchers have produced a mathematical simulation that evaluates how many COVID-19 cases could be avoided in North Carolina if more ...

Malaria parasite’s partiality for the spleen

Credit: Woodford J, Gillman A, Jenvey P, Roberts J, Woolley S, Barber BE, et al. (2021) Positron emission tomography and ...

If countries implement Paris pledges with cuts to aerosols, millions of lives can be saved

A strategic approach to reducing both greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution can reap major health and temperature benefits, according ...

WVU designated as one of only eight ECHO Superhub sites in the US

With the designation, the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute program can now lend resources and expertise to health ...

Lundquist investigators in global study expanding genomic research of different ancestries