By Tara Haelle on September 10, 2021 Credit: Amanda Montañez; Source: “Cancer in General Responders Participating in World Trade Center Health Programs, 2003–2013,” by Moshe Z. Shapiro et al., in JNCI Cancer Spectrum, Vol. 4, No. 1; February 2020 John Feal, now 54 years old, was a supervisor at a demolition company when terrorists hijacked two planes that brought...
When the two messenger RNA vaccines for COVID-19 first became readily available, many people talked about side effects, everything from headaches to chills to feeling exhausted for a couple days. Yet plenty of others seemed to take the shots in stride, barely registering much beyond a sore arm. It was popular to assume that feeling...
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER School-aged children who spend more time in front of screens are only slightly more likely to have attention disorders, disturbed sleep or lower grades and are no more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety, finds one of the largest studies to date to explore how screen time impacts youth....
by University of Maine Credit: Wikipedia / CC-BY-SA-3.0-de Yogurt consumption can help lower blood pressure in older adults with elevated levels, according to a new study led by an international team, including researchers at the University of Maine. The study, a new finding in the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS), was conducted by researchers Alexandra Wade of...
by University of Birmingham Credit: Alexis Brown/Unsplash A guide to help young people talk to their GP about self-harm and suicidal experiences has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham in partnership with a group of youth advisors. Launched on World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September), the aim of the guide is to provide support...
by Dennis Thompson (HealthDay)—Until now, folks suffering from hearing loss typically have had to fork out thousands of dollars for a device that could be adjusted only by a professional audiologist. No wonder that only one-quarter of the nearly 29 million U.S. adults who could benefit from a hearing aid have actually tried one, according to the...
While researchers have found that adding a shelter cat to the family can help lower stress and anxiety for children with autism, a new study at the University of Missouri shows that joining a family does wonders for the felines, too. “It’s not only important to examine how families of children with autism may benefit from these...
by American Heart Association Credit: CC0 Public Domain Asian men and women living in Japan who ate peanuts (on average 4-5 peanuts/day) had a lower risk of having an ischemic stroke or a cardiovascular disease event compared to those who did not eat peanuts, according to new research published today in Stroke, a journal of the American Stroke Association,...
by University of Geneva Example of ‘skeleton’ extraction using OpenPose on an image extracted from the recording of a social scene: (A) OpenPose keypoints overlaid on the video recording (B). OpenPose keypoints over a black background, preserving the bare minimum of scene features necessary to identify the social interaction. Credit: Kojovic, Natraj, Mohanty, Maillart, Schaer Individuals...
by Hong Kong Baptist University Professor Ken Yung Kin-lam (right) and Dr Fu Pengfei, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Department of Biology of HKBU, find a strong association between PM2.5 and a wide range of neurological disorders. Credit: Hong Kong Baptist University A comprehensive, systematic meta-analysis conducted by HKBU scientists found a significant association between exposure to PM2.5,...
