Tag: Public Health

In the largest study of its kind, involving more than 50,000 subjects in 14 countries, researchers at the Icahn School ...

UC research supports state’s effort to raise age limit on tobacco purchases

University of Cincinnati expert applauds Ohio governor's bid to raise age to purchase cigarettes and e-cigarettesCredit: University of Cincinnati According ...

Diagnosing urban air pollution exposure with new precision

BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - A new review of studies on levels of urban exposure to airborne ...

US $244 billion lost annually because people don’t have spectacles to correct myopia

East Asia, South Asia and South East Asia regions bear the greatest burdenCredit: Photo by Dean Saffron, courtesy of Brien ...

HER2 positive breast cancer: Treatment de-escalation needs to be personalized

ESMO Breast Cancer Congress, May 2-4, 2019, Berlin, GermanyCredit: European Society for Medical Oncology Lugano, Switzerland, 1 May 2019 - ...

Quitting smoking is associated with reduced risk of bladder cancer in postmenopausal women

Bottom Line: A large study of postmenopausal women indicated that quitting cigarette smoking was associated with significantly reduced risk of ...

Grant moves TTUHSC El Paso into telemedicine

Credit: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso EL PASO, Texas-With help from a nearly $500,000 grant from the ...

MUSC psychologists release results of survey of ‘Maria generation’ kids

Credit: Provided by Rosaura Orengo-Aguayo Psychologists from the Medical University of South Carolina have just published one of the largest ...

Pregnancy shifts the daily schedule forward

New study finds both schedule, activity level changes in normal full-term pregnanciesCredit: Image: Syda Productions, via Shutterstock Add this to ...

Sleep and exercise affect new moms differently than new dads

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Sleep and exercise are vital to the wellbeing of new parents, but these essentials affect new ...

Crisis and suicide prevention services struggle with demand after celebrity suicides

NIH study identifies importance of support for critical suicide prevention services The United States may lack the resources needed to ...

Lines blurring between human herpes simplex viruses

HSV-1, which mostly infects the mouth, and HSV-2, which causes genital sores, are forming recombinants in present-day humansCredit: Greg Pepper ...

Study: Health care providers split on who should prescribe HIV prevention drug

Some say primary care doctors should take the lead on PrEP; others feel any provider can, according to new UB ...

Keeping fit is more than physical: It’s a state of mind

Personality, motivation and level of self-determination all shown to influence the type of workout we choose (and for how long ...

Food packaging claims mislead consumers with ideas of health

Research finds four distinct ways that food brands claim to be 'healthy' and how those types of claims influence consumers' ...

The new ‘runner’s high’? MJ users often mix weed, workouts

82% of cannabis users say they partake before, after exercise Eight out of 10 marijuana users in states where cannabis ...

Anti-stress brain chemical is related to PTSD resilience after trauma

Relationship between nociceptin receptor and less severe PTSD symptoms has implications for treatment, according to a new study in Biological ...

510(k) market clearance for FluChip-8G Influenza A+B Assay

InDevR receives 510(k) market clearance for the first influenza diagnostic assay capable of distinguishing between seasonal and non-seasonal influenza A ...

A novel method for assessing combined risk of multiple tap water pollutants

Array of contaminants in California water could cause 15,000 cases of cancer WASHINGTON - The array of toxic pollutants in ...

Global HER2 testing survey raises questions about priorities for breast cancer resources