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Medical Xpress / New research shows primary care training improves dementia detection
As Alzheimer's disease and other dementias continue to rise nationwide, new research shows that equipping primary care providers with focused dementia training and embedding clinical decision-support tools directly into the ...
Medical Xpress / Most severe obesity still goes untreated as GLP-1 use climbs and surgery slips
Drawing on electronic health records from nearly 20 million patients with severe obesity, researchers from University of California San Diego find that GLP-1 prescriptions have grown exponentially—from less than 4,600 prescriptions ...
Medical Xpress / Minor federal fines offer little deterrence to insurers for Medicare Advantage violations, study finds
A new study from health policy researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health suggests that while regulators have several tools at their disposal to penalize insurance plans that break the rules, they rely mostly ...
Phys.org / New publishing tool detects duplicate peer reviews in push against reviewer fraud
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has developed a machine-learning powered tool to help detect duplicate peer review reports, addressing a growing threat to research integrity in scholarly publishing.
Phys.org / Saving chocolate while restoring rainforests? Rock dust boosts soil nutrition and supports farmers
Chocolate is the food of the gods. The name of the tree from which the confection originates, Theobroma cacao, combines the Greek words for god (theós) and food (brôma). This small evergreen tree grows in tropical forests ...
Medical Xpress / Metabolic and bariatric surgery after GLP-1 treatment significantly boosts weight loss, research finds
People who begin obesity treatment with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1s) and then undergo metabolic and bariatric surgery achieve substantially greater weight loss than with the medications alone, according ...
Medical Xpress / Bariatric surgery procedures fall below 200,000, first time since 2020, new research finds
The number of metabolic and bariatric surgery procedures in the United States dropped below 200,000 in 2024 for the first time since 2020, a more than 20% decline from the prior year, according to new research presented at ...
Medical Xpress / Bariatric surgery slashes risk of kidney failure, heart attack and death, new data show
Metabolic and bariatric surgery, also known as weight-loss surgery, dramatically improves outcomes for patients with obesity and chronic kidney disease (CKD), significantly reducing the risk of kidney failure, major cardiovascular ...
Phys.org / How the timing of corporate donations shapes consumer trust
Whether a company donates $1,000 a week for 52 weeks or gives $52,000 all at once, the total amount donated is the same. However, recent research by Alexander Park, an assistant professor of marketing at Indiana University ...
Medical Xpress / Why risk perception matters for quitting smoking
Cigarettes are one of the deadliest products on the market—but the risks of alternatives are not always clearly understood. That disconnect came into sharp focus in 2019, when headlines warned of a mysterious and sometimes ...
Phys.org / Physicists have measured 'negative time' in the lab
As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island. We can imagine that his wife, Penelope, would ...
Tech Xplore / After a 40-year wait, technology finally enables three-sided zipper design
In 1985, the Innovative Design Fund placed an ad in Scientific American offering up to $10,000 to support clever prototypes for clothing, home decor, and textiles. William Freeman Ph.D., then an electrical engineer at Polaroid ...
