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Medical Xpress / What would bring nurses back? How hospitals can reverse nursing workforce losses
Most registered nurses who recently left hospital employment are motivated to return to health care work—and safe nurse staffing levels are the top factor that would bring them back, according to new research from the University ...
Medical Xpress / Wastewater study finds illicit tobacco use in Australia rose 150% since 2017
A study of wastewater samples has revealed that illicit tobacco use has increased by 150% in Australia. University of Queensland researchers used samples taken across Australia and found that while general tobacco use has ...
Medical Xpress / Ultrasound detects abdominal fat linked to metabolic diseases
The distribution of body fat, and particularly fat accumulated around the abdomen, is a determining factor in the risk of developing metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. However, not all abdominal fat has the same impact ...
Medical Xpress / Legalization of cannabis and retail sales linked to rise in its use and co-use of tobacco
The legalization of cannabis and the start of retail sales of the drug in the US are linked to both a rise in its recreational use and concurrent use of tobacco, as well as a fall in sole tobacco use, finds an analysis of ...
Medical Xpress / AI model can accelerate antibody drug production
As instigators of immunity, monoclonal antibodies are marvels of modern medicine, lab-made proteins that can treat cancers, autoimmune diseases, and many other conditions. With the market for these therapies forecast to double ...
Medical Xpress / How diet may worsen endometriosis: What the AGE-RAGE pathway suggests
Researchers have been studying how the chemistry of cooking food includes similarities to the molecular process of endometriosis lesions. When these lesions form, the presence of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) appears ...
Medical Xpress / Physicians are not 'providers': New paper says names in health care have ethical significance
A new ethics policy paper from the American College of Physicians (ACP) says the term "provider" should not be used to describe physicians, and using the blanket term undermines physicians' ethical responsibility, clinical ...
Phys.org / Fentanyl or phony? Machine learning algorithm learns to pick out opioid signatures
New forms of fentanyl are created every day. For law enforcement, that poses a challenge: How do you identify a chemical you've never seen before? Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) aim to answer ...
Phys.org / Improving predictions for 'tailor-made' wheat with AI and big data
Climate change and evolving growing conditions present new challenges for breeding. It is important to take local environmental conditions into account. An international team led by the IPK Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics ...
Medical Xpress / Pandemic-era childhood obesity gains persist; young children most affected
The Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health at IU Indianapolis has released updated findings on childhood obesity trends through 2024. The new report shows that while the sharp pandemic-era increase in obesity ...
Tech Xplore / Low-temperature, sinterless silica glass developed using 3D printing techniques
A research team has used advanced 3D printing techniques to develop low-temperature, "sinterless" silica glass. They converted 3D-printed objects into silica glass structures at significantly lower temperatures than traditional ...
Medical Xpress / California mushroom poisonings are on the rise: What's being done to curb exposure?
David Yturralde arrived at the mushroom talk in Newport Beach recently armed with a pen and paper and a host of questions. The goal, he said, was to demystify those fascinating fungi that popped up on his grass after heavy ...
