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Wellcome Sanger Institute launches new initiative to better understand respiratory viruses

A new initiative to better understand respiratory viruses has been launched today (10 January 2023) by the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

10 Jan 2023

Study finds alarming number of older women facing late-stage cervical cancer diagnoses and death

A new study conducted by UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers shows an alarming number of California women 65 and older are facing late-stage cervical cancer diagnoses and dying from the disease.

9 Jan 2023

Healthy eating patterns associated with reduced risk of premature mortality

A variety of healthy eating patterns are linked to reduced risk of premature death, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers.

9 Jan 2023

New survey shows increase in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance across 23 countries in 2022

Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines increased globally, from 75.2% in 2021 to 79.1% in 2022, according to a survey in 23 countries that represent more than 60% of the world's population.

9 Jan 2023

Study reports COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among 6.5% of the Spanish population

Europe is experiencing an increasingly large circulation of influenza and the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

9 Jan 2023

Education about the role of genetics in eating behavior may help to alleviate weight stigma

Education about gene-by-environment interaction (G X E) causes of eating behaviors can have beneficial downstream effects on attitudes toward people with higher weight.

9 Jan 2023

Study highlights the transition in the U.S. mental health system from in-person to virtual care

Telehealth services for common mental health problems surged 16 to 20 fold during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than making up for a drop in in-person care that occurred during the period for a number of conditions, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

9 Jan 2023

Medicaid and abortion top health agenda for Montana lawmakers

Montana lawmakers said lowering costs and expanding patient access will be their top health care goals for the new legislative session.

9 Jan 2023

Does the duration between SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination affect immunity?

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University assessed the impact of the duration between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and vaccination on immunity against infection.

8 Jan 2023

New model for detecting and estimating pathogen variant dynamics and risk

A recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server developed a hierarchical modeling method to estimate severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant fitness advantage and prevalence.

8 Jan 2023

Study suggests COVID-19 can cause diabetes

The authors of a new study under review at Nature Portfolio and currently posted to the Research Square preprint* server showed the clinical possibility that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) heightens the risk of developing diabetes mellitus (DM), supporting diabetes screening in those infected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

8 Jan 2023

Community gardening could play an important role in preventing cancer and mental health disorders

Get more exercise. Eat right. Make new friends. As we compile our lists of resolutions aimed at improving physical and mental health in 2023, new CU Boulder research suggests one addition could have a powerful impact: Gardening.

6 Jan 2023

California Senate’s new health chair to prioritize mental health and homelessness

California state Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman, a Stockton Democrat who was instrumental in passing Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature mental health care legislation last year, has been appointed to lead the Senate's influential health committee, a change that promises a more urgent focus on expanding mental health services and moving homeless people into housing and treatment.

6 Jan 2023

Low-cost intervention can make a difference to America's deadly overdose epidemic

There are no simple solutions to America's deadly overdose epidemic, which costs 100,000 lives each year and is erasing gains in life expectancy.

6 Jan 2023

SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron transmission within educational settings in relation to community-based outbreaks and mitigation measures

Researchers assessed whether school closures during COVID-19 outbreaks prevented viral transmission in Australia.

6 Jan 2023

Research findings open the door to new strategies for promoting muscle function during aging

Proven to protect against a wide array of diseases, exercise may be the most powerful anti-aging intervention known to science.

5 Jan 2023

Specific air pollutants linked to non-viral asthma attacks among children in urban communities

Moderate levels of two outdoor air pollutants, ozone and fine particulate matter, are associated with non-viral asthma attacks in children and adolescents who live in low-income urban areas, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health has found.

5 Jan 2023

New approach could reduce the computation time for simulating the spread of diseases

Simulations that help determine how a large-scale pandemic will spread can take weeks or even months to run.

5 Jan 2023

New statistical model can be used to prevent accidents involving children

A research team led by Kojiro Matsuo, an associate professor at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering within the Toyohashi University of Technology, and Kosuke Miyazaki, a professor at the Department of Civil Engineering within the National Institute of Technology – Kagawa College, has established an efficient means of identifying road intersections at high potential risk of accidents involving children.

5 Jan 2023

Wayne State researcher wins $1.7 million NIH award to understand and tackle cisplatin-induced ototoxicity

A Wayne State University researcher has received a $1.7 million, five-year award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health for the study, "Targeting nitrative stress for treatment of cisplatin ototoxicity."

5 Jan 2023

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Wellcome Sanger Institute launches new initiative to better understand respiratory viruses

Study finds alarming number of older women facing late-stage cervical cancer diagnoses and death

Healthy eating patterns associated with reduced risk of premature mortality

New survey shows increase in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance across 23 countries in 2022

Study reports COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among 6.5% of the Spanish population

Education about the role of genetics in eating behavior may help to alleviate weight stigma

Study highlights the transition in the U.S. mental health system from in-person to virtual care

Medicaid and abortion top health agenda for Montana lawmakers

Does the duration between SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination affect immunity?

New model for detecting and estimating pathogen variant dynamics and risk

Study suggests COVID-19 can cause diabetes

Community gardening could play an important role in preventing cancer and mental health disorders

California Senate’s new health chair to prioritize mental health and homelessness

Low-cost intervention can make a difference to America's deadly overdose epidemic

SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron transmission within educational settings in relation to community-based outbreaks and mitigation measures

Research findings open the door to new strategies for promoting muscle function during aging

Specific air pollutants linked to non-viral asthma attacks among children in urban communities

New approach could reduce the computation time for simulating the spread of diseases

New statistical model can be used to prevent accidents involving children

Wayne State researcher wins $1.7 million NIH award to understand and tackle cisplatin-induced ototoxicity

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