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Study finds HIV to be 2.5 times more frequent among mental health service users

New National Institute for Health and Care Research Maudsley BRC supported research has found HIV is 2.5 times more frequent in people who use mental health services than the general population in South London.

26 Apr 2023

Low vitamin D levels during pregnancy linked to childhood obesity in boys

Study examines the association between prenatal vitamin D levels and growth and adiposity in late childhood. The results suggest a sex-specific programming effect of early pregnancy vitamin D3 levels on offspring body composition into late childhood observed in boys.

25 Apr 2023

Study reveals survival time of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater: Implications for public health

Study investigated the survival of SARS-CoV-2 in three wastewater matrices - filtered and unfiltered raw wastewater, and secondary effluent. The time required for inactivation of 90% of SARS-CoV-2 was observed to be 10.4, 10.8, and 18.3 hours for unfiltered raw, filtered raw, and secondary effluent, respectively.

25 Apr 2023

Early exposure to pyrethroids may increase the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders

A new study from The University of Toledo suggests early exposure to a common class of insecticides called pyrethroids may increase the risk of autism and other developmental disorders, even at levels currently recognized as safe by federal regulators.

25 Apr 2023

Gum Health Day 2023 campaign focuses on aesthetics and wellbeing

Keeping gums healthy and regularly checked is an integral part of everybody's general health as scientific evidence shows a clear association between gum disease and many serious, chronic conditions including diabetes, cardiovascular disease.

25 Apr 2023

Study assesses trends in buprenorphine initiation and retention in the United States

Treating opioid addiction should be much easier now than it was a few years ago, thanks to pandemic-era rule changes that aim to improve access to buprenorphine, a medicine proven to help in recovery.

25 Apr 2023

$Leashed dog walking linked to increased risk of fractures and TBIs$

Leashed dog walking linked to increased risk of fractures and TBIs

Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) were the second most common injury among adults treated in U.S. emergency rooms for injuries related to walking a leashed dog from 2001 to 2020.

25 Apr 2023

T cell-mediated recognition of conserved bacterial epitope generates broad immunity

Typically T cells of the immune system respond to a specific feature (antigen) of a microbe, thereby generating protective immunity.

25 Apr 2023

The Wonder of DNA: Reflections from Dr. Francis Collins on the 20th Anniversary of the Human Genome Project

To highlight how far the field of genetics has come, we spoke with Dr. Francis Collins, the leader of the Human Genome Project about his incredible career in genetics.

25 Apr 2023

Depressed? Anxious? Air pollution may be a factor

In the 1990s, residents of Mexico City noticed their dogs acting strangely — some didn't recognize their owners, and the animals' sleep patterns had changed.

25 Apr 2023

Did a military lab spill anthrax into public waterways? New book reveals details of a US leak

Unsterilized laboratory wastewater from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, spewed out the top of a rusty 50,000-gallon outdoor holding tank, the pressure catapulting it over the short concrete wall that was supposed to contain hazardous spills.

25 Apr 2023

Microplastics: How safe are factory workers from invisible threats?

Researchers examine exposure to microplastics in plastic factory personnel.

24 Apr 2023

New and efficient technique for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing using optical microscopy

Researchers at EPFL and Vrije Universiteit Brussel have developed a novel and highly efficient method for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing using optical microscopy.

24 Apr 2023

Medical and nursing students lack adequate knowledge of disaster medicine

Most students of medicine and nursing in Sweden consider their own knowledge of disaster medicine inadequate.

24 Apr 2023

Study investigates how preterm birth and fetal growth are related to later atrial fibrillation risk

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have investigated how preterm birth and fetal growth are related to the risk of atrial fibrillation up to middle-age

24 Apr 2023

New report proposes innovative approaches to address depression in young people

Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) practitioners at the University of Cambridge have contributed to the report Changing Minds, Changing Lives, which proposes innovative, evidence-based approaches to prevent, diagnose and treat depression in young people.

24 Apr 2023

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Study finds HIV to be 2.5 times more frequent among mental health service users

Low vitamin D levels during pregnancy linked to childhood obesity in boys

Study reveals survival time of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater: Implications for public health

Early exposure to pyrethroids may increase the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders

Gum Health Day 2023 campaign focuses on aesthetics and wellbeing

Study assesses trends in buprenorphine initiation and retention in the United States

Leashed dog walking linked to increased risk of fractures and TBIs

T cell-mediated recognition of conserved bacterial epitope generates broad immunity

The Wonder of DNA: Reflections from Dr. Francis Collins on the 20th Anniversary of the Human Genome Project

Depressed? Anxious? Air pollution may be a factor

Did a military lab spill anthrax into public waterways? New book reveals details of a US leak

Microplastics: How safe are factory workers from invisible threats?

New and efficient technique for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing using optical microscopy

Medical and nursing students lack adequate knowledge of disaster medicine

Study investigates how preterm birth and fetal growth are related to later atrial fibrillation risk

New report proposes innovative approaches to address depression in young people

RSV infection in the first year of life associated with increased risk of childhood asthma

An overview of mothers’ lived pregnancy experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic

Harms of renal hyperfiltration may be highly underestimated

US officials want to end the HIV epidemic by 2030. Many stakeholders think they won’t.

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