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Social protection program shows promise in helping poor households deal with natural disasters

An interventional social protection program called Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH) shows positive results in helping poor households develop proactive coping strategies before and during natural disasters, leading to social and economic resilience.

31 Oct 2022

What are the implications of microbial ecosystems for female reproductive health?

Researchers reviewed the current understanding of the composition and temporal dynamics of microbial niches in the female reproductive tract.

31 Oct 2022

Research helps to improve the understanding of virtual romance

An international team of researchers has published a paper introducing the concept of romantic anthropomorphism, which involves giving a non-human agent human-like characteristics in a romantic context.

28 Oct 2022

Employers are concerned about covering workers’ mental health needs, survey finds

Almost three years after the covid-19 pandemic upended workplaces, mental health coverage remains a priority for employers, according to an annual employer survey fielded by KFF.

27 Oct 2022

Hospitals said they lost money on Medicare patients. Some made millions, a state report finds.

Atrium Health, the largest hospital system in North Carolina, has declared publicly that in 2019 it provided $640 million in services to Medicare patients that were never paid for, by far the largest "community benefit" it provided that year.

25 Oct 2022

Single-earner families may experience more depressive symptoms than parents in dual-earner families

New study from Umeå University shows that single-earner families tend to experience more depressive symptoms than parents in dual-earner families.

25 Oct 2022

5 things to know about Montana’s ‘born alive’ ballot initiative

Montana voters will decide Nov. 8 whether to approve a ballot initiative declaring that an embryo or fetus is a legal person with a right to medical care if it survives an abortion or delivery.

20 Oct 2022

Medically tailored meals could result in net cost savings of $13.6 billion each year

Adopting more programs that make and deliver medically tailored meals to people with serious, diet-sensitive diseases could result not only in improved health outcomes in the form of fewer hospitalizations nationally, but in a net cost savings of approximately $13.6 billion each year, according to new research from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

17 Oct 2022

Newly identified process keeps some immune cells on their toes

Cancer cells use an unusual mechanism to migrate into new tissue and form metastases there. The same process probably also keeps some immune cells on their toes.

14 Oct 2022

Researchers develop a causal model to assess the dependence of viral loads of patients infected with COVID-19 on age

Researchers developed a causal model to analyze SARS-CoV-2 viral load distribution as a function of patients’ age.

12 Oct 2022

Second patient receives landmark fetal surgery and stem cell procedure

At Michelle Johnson's 20-week ultrasound, she received the distressing news that her developing baby was diagnosed with myelomeningocele, also known as spina bifida.

11 Oct 2022

Future pandemic responses should consider ethnicity and social contact patterns, researchers say

Findings from a disease model developed by a research team at Iowa State University may help public health officials evaluate and improve strategies for the next pandemic.

7 Oct 2022

Extended-release nifedipine could help treat women with severe preeclampsia during labor and delivery

Women with severe preeclampsia (severe high blood pressure) during pregnancy may be treated with extended-release nifedipine, a blood pressure-lowering medicine, daily during the labor and delivery process, according to new research published today in Hypertension, an American Heart Association journal.

3 Oct 2022

Pregnancy-specific anxiety associated with shorter gestation times and earlier births

A new UCLA study has found anxiety specific to pregnancy and childbirth is associated with shorter gestation times and earlier births.

26 Sep 2022

Anxiety during pregnancy associated with earlier births

Women who experience anxiety about their pregnancies give birth earlier on average than those who don't, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

26 Sep 2022

The impact of sleep fragmentation on the clonal diversity of immune cells and the genetic aging of the hematopoietic system

A new study shows that sleep does much more, regulating the normal production of blood cells. This finding underlines how essential a healthy sleep routine is for a normal life.

26 Sep 2022

Viruses exploit ability to sense the environment to maximize their infective yield

New UMBC-led research in Frontiers in Microbiology suggests that viruses are using information from their environment to "decide" when to sit tight inside their hosts and when to multiply and burst out, killing the host cell. The work has implications for antiviral drug development.

23 Sep 2022

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Social protection program shows promise in helping poor households deal with natural disasters

What are the implications of microbial ecosystems for female reproductive health?

Research helps to improve the understanding of virtual romance

Employers are concerned about covering workers’ mental health needs, survey finds

Hospitals said they lost money on Medicare patients. Some made millions, a state report finds.

Single-earner families may experience more depressive symptoms than parents in dual-earner families

5 things to know about Montana’s ‘born alive’ ballot initiative

Medically tailored meals could result in net cost savings of $13.6 billion each year

Newly identified process keeps some immune cells on their toes

Researchers develop a causal model to assess the dependence of viral loads of patients infected with COVID-19 on age

Second patient receives landmark fetal surgery and stem cell procedure

Future pandemic responses should consider ethnicity and social contact patterns, researchers say

Extended-release nifedipine could help treat women with severe preeclampsia during labor and delivery

Pregnancy-specific anxiety associated with shorter gestation times and earlier births

Anxiety during pregnancy associated with earlier births

The impact of sleep fragmentation on the clonal diversity of immune cells and the genetic aging of the hematopoietic system

Viruses exploit ability to sense the environment to maximize their infective yield

Small, autonomous device can be adhered to the skin to measure the changing size of tumors

Engineers create a small, non-invasive device that measures changes in tumor size

Deep learning tool highly effective at detecting pancreatic cancer on CT

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