Buying emergency contraception is legal but not always easy at small, mom-and-pop pharmacies
Credit: West Virginia University About 22 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 44 report having used emergency ...
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40% of O’ahu, Hawai’i beaches could be lost by mid-century
Credit: Kammie Tavares The reactive and piecemeal approach historically used to manage beaches in Hawai'i has failed to protect them. ...
Accurate labels like ‘aerosol’ or ‘chemicals’ increase perceived risks of e-cigarette use
George Mason study reveals that labeling e-cigarette emissions as 'chemicals' or 'aerosols' rather than 'vapor' increases the perceived risk of ...
Gun laws in neighboring states affect state gun deaths, new evidence
Weaker gun laws in neighboring states appear to increase gun deaths in adjoining states, and strong gun laws may be ...
The Lancet: Largest global vaccine confidence survey reveals hesitancy hotspots
Vaccine confidence in Europe remains low compared to other regions and ranges from 19% (Lithuania) to 66% (Finland) of people ...
Firearm ownership among LGBT adults
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 8, 2020—Nearly 16% of LGBT adults in California own a ...
The Lancet: Many countries falling behind on global commitments to tackling premature deaths from chronic diseases, such as diabetes, lung cancer and heart disease
Credit: The Lancet Over the next two weeks, The Lancet will be publishing two reports calling for urgent global action ...
COVID-19 and the threat to American voting rights
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 2, 2020—The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated three main pathologies of ...
Half of Medicare patients do not receive recommended health care after hospitalization
Credit: Data Source: Estimates are from "Assessment of Receipt of the First Home Health Care Visit After Hospital Discharge Among ...
Risk factors for mortality in diabetic patients discharged from hospital identified
Credit: Institute of Digital Healthcare at WMG, University of Warwick When patients are discharged from Hospital those with diabetes are ...
Warning witnesses of the possibility of misinformation helps protect their memory accuracy
Findings could enhance interview procedures and protocols and help everyday memoryCredit: Jessica M. Karanian.Fairfield University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (August 31, 2020)--Warning ...
Maternal insecticide use during pregnancy and neonatal jaundice
Credit: Copyright © 2020, Springer Nature The data of 61,751 pregnant women, out of approximately 100,000 collected by the Japan ...
Social distancing is instinctive but hard for humans and animals
Avoiding infectious disease is a protective instinct in humans and animals but the instinct to socialize often wins the dayCredit: ...
Researchers introduce new theory to calculate emissions liability
Credit: Michigan Tech A comparison of the results for conventional point source pollution and bottleneck carbon emissions sources shows that ...