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Medical Xpress / Exposure to wildfire smoke may be linked to increased risk of developing several cancers
Exposure to wildfire smoke was associated with a significantly increased risk of lung, colorectal, breast, bladder, and blood cancer, according to results from a study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research ...
Phys.org / Small-scale and backyard egg producers in New England invited to participate in survey
As more families and small enterprises enter the egg market and more consumers buy local food, the stakes around backyard egg safety are growing. A single outbreak linked to small producers could pose a setback to public ...
Phys.org / Telling people they might lose motivates more than telling them they might win, research shows
Athletes say they hate to lose more than they love to win. New research finds the same sentiment is shared in organizations. A Virginia Tech researcher and his colleagues discovered that when managers frame work problems ...
Medical Xpress / The NRL has just taken a giant step forward with brain injury prevention
In a significant development in the battle against brain injury in sport, teams from the National Rugby League (NRL) and the National Rugby League for Women (NRLW) are now required to restrict the amount of body contact during ...
Medical Xpress / High-resolution brain atlas expands with 18 tasks across 11 repeatedly scanned volunteers
The Individual Brain Charting (IBC) project has released its fifth and largest update of high-resolution fMRI data, adding a new set of cognitive tasks to one of the most detailed brain-mapping datasets available today. The ...
Phys.org / When managers 'walk around,' employee voice may shrink, paper warns
A new paper by two Idaho State University professors says a popular management technique may cause more harm than good. Published in the American Journal of Management, the study by Tyler Burch, professor of management, and ...
Medical Xpress / Early myocarditis onset after immunotherapy may predict treatment-related fatality
Patients who developed myocarditis within the first month of receiving immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy were more likely to die of myocarditis, and myocarditis-specific fatality was more common in patients who experienced ...
Medical Xpress / Lockdown ended, but for many patients the real damage to blood sugar control was only beginning
The COVID-19 lockdowns were difficult for everyone. Many people were stuck at home all day every day dealing with their uncertainty for the future, and some found it hard to avoid frequent eating and snacking habits during ...
Medical Xpress / Malaria lights up under magnets and polarized light, opening the door to faster, smarter blood testing
Researchers have developed a new microscopy method that uses a magnetic field and polarized light to provide quantitative measurements that could enable faster and more objective detection of malaria in blood. Malaria, caused ...
Phys.org / Mapping the hidden structure of the universe
The universe has a hidden structure, and a University of Virginia professor is mapping it in 3D, using 46 million galaxies and quasars and 19 million stars. Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, an assistant professor in the Department ...
Medical Xpress / Are your staffing metrics enough? New research on patient falls says maybe not
A new study from Penn Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) published in Nursing Outlook finds that nurses' assessments of their staffing adequacy is a more accurate predictor of patient safety ...
Medical Xpress / Bullying and adverse social climate take measurable toll on mental health of gender-diverse youth: Study
Gender-diverse adolescents who experience bullying and live in states with persistently unsupportive gender identity laws are significantly more likely to suffer escalating psychological distress compared to their peers, ...
