Tag: Public Health

A new Dartmouth-led study, published this week in the June issue of Health Affairs, offers new details about how one ...

Limiting warming to 2 degrees C will require emission cuts across entire food system

Feeding 10 billion people and keeping Earth from overheating this century require not only major changes to agriculture, but transformation ...

For Latinos with diabetes, new study looks at ways to improve medication adherence

Certain lifestyle changes and low-cost interventions may improve how patients manage their medication regimenCredit: Ricardo Carrasco III LOS ANGELES -- ...

Study: Cholesterol in eggs tied to cardiac disease, death

UMass Lowell expert stresses moderation, balance in daily diet LOWELL, Mass. - The risk of heart disease and death increases ...

Opioids are not sleep aids, and can actually worsen sleep research finds

University of Warwick led study with Lausanne, Switzerland found patients on a low to high dose of opioids reported only ...

What’s your attitude about body hair removal?

New study lays bare cultural reasons around the globe for bikini waxing and man-scaping As beachgoers scramble to trim their ...

Red and white meats are equally bad for cholesterol

UCSF CHORI study also shows that saturated fats raise low density lipoproteins (LDLs) by the same amount, regardless of meat ...

Climate action urgently required to protect human health in Europe

New EASAC report 'The imperative of climate action to protect human health in Europe' highlights an alarming range of health ...

Large national study tracks veterans’ health, highlights areas of unmet needs

Brief survey allows identification of health disparities in veterans relative to the general population Novel data describes use of instrument ...

Evidence of multiple unmonitored coal ash spills found in N.C. lake

New evidence of unmonitored and unreported coal ash spills in a North Carolina lake highlights the risk of similar spills ...

Implementation of Oregon paid family leave to ensure equality critical, research finds

Oregon is considering a bill to implement paid family leave, House Bill 2005, following in the footsteps of Washington, which ...

Concussion is a leading cause of injury for children in recreational sports

Tampa, Fla. (June 3, 2019)- Elementary school-aged children who participate in recreational sports are at greater risk of concussion than ...

Native Hawaiians at far greater risk for pancreatic cancer

Twenty years of data reveal surprising disparities Native Hawaiians are at highest risk for pancreatic cancer, according to a USC ...

Losing muscle to fat: misdirected fate of a multipotent stem cell drives LGMD2B

Credit: Children's National Research led by faculty at Children's National published online June 3, 2019, in Nature Communications shows that ...

Countries’ essential medicines lists vary greatly from one another & WHO’s model list

Published in the World Health Organization Bulletin, the research analyzes 137 countries that use essential medicines lists to inform government ...

Industry uses non-profit organisation to campaign against public health policies

A new study shows how a non-profit research organisation has been deployed by its backers from major food and beverage ...

Children who nap are happier, excel academically, and have fewer behavioral problems

A Penn study of nearly 3,000 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders in China revealed strong connections between 30 to 60 ...

Seven key health measures help predict future risk of heart disease

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Seven key measures of heart health may help predict future risk of cardiovascular disease, according to ...

Searching for the origins of the depressive symptoms in Huntington’s disease

Cdk5 Kinase: An essential proteinCredit: Verónica Brito (University of Barcelona-UBNeuro) About 40% of the affected patients with Huntington's disease -a ...

Guidelines for managing anaphylaxis in children need an update