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Stimulant users more likely to drink heavily and use other drugs, study finds

College students who misuse stimulant drugs or nootropics like Adderall or Ritalin are also likely to drink heavily and use other drugs, according to new research from the University of Georgia.

28 Sep 2021

Salt substitutes are effective in reducing stroke, major cardiovascular events

A salt substitute that includes less sodium reduced rates of stroke and heart attack in rural China, according to a trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

28 Sep 2021

Feeling happy about life reduces the odds of cognitive impairment in older adults

Feeling happy about life slowed the cognitive decline among older adults in China, a new 12-year study suggests.

28 Sep 2021

Eating more fruit and veg linked to better mental wellbeing among children

Children who eat a better diet, packed with fruit and vegetables, have better mental wellbeing – according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

28 Sep 2021

Wildfire smoke is here to stay. Here’s how to clean the air inside your home.

The fierce wildfires that broke out across much of the western United States this summer, spreading smoke across hundreds of miles, continue to pose a serious health hazard to millions.

28 Sep 2021

The ‘burn scars’ of wildfires threaten the West’s drinking water

Colorado saw its worst fire season last year, with the three largest fires in state history and more than 600,000 acres burned.

28 Sep 2021

Higher fruit and veg intake associated with better mental health in secondary school pupils

Nutritious breakfast and lunch linked to emotional wellbeing in pupils across the age spectrum Include good nutrition in public health strategies for kids' mental health, urge researchers.

28 Sep 2021

Study finds common adverse events between Flu and COVID-19 vaccines

A study compared the top 10 common adverse events of COVID-19 vaccines and flu vaccine’s adverse effects.

28 Sep 2021

Scientists create new compliance-based model for SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Researchers from Utrecht University have been investigating the interactions between compliance social distance measurements, infection, and vaccination coverage in order to inform public health policy further. A research paper covering their work is available on the medRxiv* preprint server.

28 Sep 2021

Confinement drastically reduced the transmission of COVID-19 variants in Spain during first wave

The most complete studies on the variants of the coronavirus that dominated the first waves in Spain have just been published in Nature Genetics. The study was carried out by the SeqCOVID consortium, which includes more than 50 Spanish institutions led by the University of Valencia, the Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia (IBV, CSIC), and the Fisabio Foundation.

28 Sep 2021

Solar exposure guidelines for optimal vitamin D synthesis may need to be revised, study suggests

Previously published solar exposure guidelines for optimal vitamin D synthesis based on a study of skin samples may need to be revised, according to new research published today in PNAS.

27 Sep 2021

UK's top rugby players support COVID-19 vaccine roll out

Some of the country's top rugby players have today (Tuesday 28 September) encouraged young people to get their COVID-19 vaccine as they discuss their personal experiences of the pandemic.

27 Sep 2021

Nemours receives NIH grant to foster COVID-19 vaccine uptake among children in Black and Latino communities

Researchers at Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware, as part of a public-private partnership, have received a National Institutes of Health grant supplement through the Delaware Clinical and Translational Research ACCEL Program to develop and test an approach to foster uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine among children in Black and Latino communities.

27 Sep 2021

Enterovirus 71 vaccine candidate strains exhibit good immunogenicity and cross-neutralization activity

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. In this commentary researchers from Beijing Minhai Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China, Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China, Guangdong Provincial Institute of Biological Products and Drugs, Guangzhou, China, Gaozhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangdong, China and the Yangchun Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangdong, China consider immungenicity and cross-neutralizing activity of enterovirus 71 vaccine candidate strains.

27 Sep 2021

Researchers investigate dynamic changes in mosquitoes and their viromes in Wuhan during 2020

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Researchers from Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Jinan University, Shenzhen, China and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China consider dynamic surveillance of mosquitoes and their viromes in Wuhan during 2020.

27 Sep 2021

Review of COVID-19 clinical and viral characteristics, pathogenesis, and genetics

A new review article investigates the clinical and viral characteristics, pathogenesis, as well as human genetic basis associated with COVID-19.

27 Sep 2021

NYU wins roughly $4 million federal grant to protect transit workers from COVID-19

NYU School of Global Public Health researchers have been awarded a five-year, roughly $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study efforts to protect New York City transit workers from COVID-19 and how these infection prevention and control programs impact the health and well-being of frontline workers.

27 Sep 2021

$6 million CDC grant to support U-M researchers in reducing youth firearm violence

Middle- and high school-age children across the United States are more likely to die as the result of a firearm injury than from any other single cause of death.

27 Sep 2021

Veterans who experienced sexual trauma are at higher risk for high blood pressure

Veterans who experienced sexual harassment and assault during military service, known as military sexual trauma, are at higher risk for high blood pressure, according to preliminary research presented today at the American Heart Association's Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2021.

27 Sep 2021

Older women and younger men may have increased risk of uncontrolled hypertension

Women ages 70 and older and men ages 20-49 were more likely to have uncontrolled hypertension despite taking blood pressure-lowering medications, according to new research presented today at the American Heart Association's Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2021.

27 Sep 2021

Public Health News and Research

Stimulant users more likely to drink heavily and use other drugs, study finds

Salt substitutes are effective in reducing stroke, major cardiovascular events

Feeling happy about life reduces the odds of cognitive impairment in older adults

Eating more fruit and veg linked to better mental wellbeing among children

Wildfire smoke is here to stay. Here’s how to clean the air inside your home.

The ‘burn scars’ of wildfires threaten the West’s drinking water

Higher fruit and veg intake associated with better mental health in secondary school pupils

Study finds common adverse events between Flu and COVID-19 vaccines

Scientists create new compliance-based model for SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Confinement drastically reduced the transmission of COVID-19 variants in Spain during first wave

Solar exposure guidelines for optimal vitamin D synthesis may need to be revised, study suggests

UK's top rugby players support COVID-19 vaccine roll out

Nemours receives NIH grant to foster COVID-19 vaccine uptake among children in Black and Latino communities

Enterovirus 71 vaccine candidate strains exhibit good immunogenicity and cross-neutralization activity

Researchers investigate dynamic changes in mosquitoes and their viromes in Wuhan during 2020

Review of COVID-19 clinical and viral characteristics, pathogenesis, and genetics

NYU wins roughly $4 million federal grant to protect transit workers from COVID-19

$6 million CDC grant to support U-M researchers in reducing youth firearm violence

Veterans who experienced sexual trauma are at higher risk for high blood pressure

Older women and younger men may have increased risk of uncontrolled hypertension

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