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Medical Xpress / Choosing safer personal care products can help lower exposures to risky chemicals

Women who selectively purchase personal care products based on their ingredients were successfully able to lower their exposures to several chemicals associated with health risks. The peer-reviewed findings from a study of ...

7 hours ago in Health
Tech Xplore / How 4 key infrastructure projects centered in Italy will reshape the European travel map

Workers will begin drilling and blasting open the first tunnel connecting Austria to Italy under the Brenner Pass through the Alps on Thursday, marking a major milestone in a series of ambitious European Union projects that ...

2 hours ago in Engineering
Medical Xpress / Aspirin halves the risk of recurrence in patients with colorectal cancer, clinical trial finds

A Swedish-led research team at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital has shown in a new randomized clinical trial that a low dose of the well-known medicine aspirin halves the risk of recurrence after surgery ...

18 hours ago in Medications
Medical Xpress / LGBTQ-friendly states led US in mpox vaccination uptake, study shows

U.S. states with stronger LGBTQ+ equality laws saw significantly higher mpox vaccination rates during the 2022–2023 epidemic compared to states with weaker protections, according to a study by CUNY SPH researchers published ...

2 hours ago in Vaccination
Medical Xpress / Food reform led by residents can provide real health benefits

Community engagement enables co-creation of change-making research with people who are traditionally "hard to reach," according to food and health researchers at the University of Reading.

8 hours ago in Health
Medical Xpress / Lymph nodes found to be key to successful cancer immunotherapy

A team of researchers, led by the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute), explored the cellular and molecular interactions revealing how lymph nodes play a crucial role in the fight against ...

23 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Increasing 'healthy competition' between menu options can nudge patients towards healthier choices

New research has shown hospital patients could reduce the carbon footprint and saturated fat content of their selected meals by up to almost a third—if the weekly menu featuring the same dishes is cleverly reorganized.

8 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Some small asteroids can abruptly explode

Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report published in Nature Astronomy by an international team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Auriane Egal of the Montreal Planetarium in Canada. The team ...

19 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / Deliveroo CEO to step down following DoorDash takeover

Will Shu, founder of food delivery app Deliveroo, will step down as its chief executive once US rival DoorDash completes a takeover of the British group, a statement said Thursday.

2 hours ago in Business
Tech Xplore / Sodium-based battery design maintains performance at room and subzero temperatures

All-solid-state batteries are safe, powerful ways to power EVs and electronics and store electricity from the energy grid, but the lithium used to build them is rare, expensive and can be environmentally devastating to extract.

18 hours ago in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / An incredible comeback: Chicago River fish populations show signs of recovery as 24 species spawn

A research paper authored by a researcher at Shedd Aquarium and published in Journal of Great Lakes Research assesses the fish species that spawn in the Chicago River to sustain and support resilient, biodiverse fish populations. ...

19 hours ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / An HIV outbreak in Maine shows the risk of Trump's crackdown on homelessness and drug use

Penobscot County, Maine, is grappling with the largest HIV outbreak in the state's history. Home to Bangor, a city of roughly 32,000, the county has identified 28 new cases over nearly two years. That's seven times the typical ...

2 hours ago in HIV & AIDS