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Medical Xpress / Even at low concentrations, fine particle pollution is tied to increased hospitalizations for kidney disease
A study published in the journal Scientific Reports has shown a strong correlation between the concentration of particulate matter in the air of São Paulo, Brazil—primarily emitted by vehicle fuel combustion—and kidney disease. ...
Medical Xpress / Genetic link between cannabis use and psychosis could help to identify those most at risk
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has highlighted the distinct and shared molecular pathways linking cannabis use disorder (CUD) and psychosis, offering ...
Phys.org / To create change, new leaders should read the room
When Ted Lasso became the coach of last-place AFC Richmond on a popular television show, he jumped in with a can-do coaching style that ignited a team ready for change. Like Lasso, new leaders are more likely than their predecessors ...
Medical Xpress / Blood pressure drug can reduce arterial stiffening
Obesity is closely intertwined with high blood pressure and diabetes, often putting patients at greater risk for either of these health conditions. It's also associated with arterial stiffening—when the walls of the artery ...
Medical Xpress / Study validates accuracy of depression screening for people with chronic pain
A new study has found that a widely used depression screening questionnaire is accurate for people with and without chronic pain, debunking a common misconception that the screening inflates depression scores for people with ...
Medical Xpress / Routine scans may reveal tumor aggressiveness in head and neck cancer—without additional tests
Medical imaging routinely used in cancer care may hold far more biological information than previously thought. An international study involving Umeå University guest professor Lukas Kenner shows that PET/CT scans can capture ...
Phys.org / Bottom trawling is scraping oceans of wildlife
Bottom trawlers extract one-quarter of the world's fisheries catches by weight and raise significant ecological, economic and social concerns. Given that, you'd think there would be an answer to basic questions in fisheries: ...
Medical Xpress / Pregnancy shows no rise in serious myasthenia gravis flare-ups, registry data suggest
For females with myasthenia gravis, pregnancy is not associated with an increased risk of serious flare-ups of the disease, or new or worsening symptoms, according to a study published in Neurology. For a small percentage ...
Medical Xpress / Future cancer therapy could use immunity to clean up damaged DNA by modulating AUF1
Researchers have identified a pathway that triggers an immune response in cells with defective DNA repair. In particular, the authors of a new paper demonstrated how the downregulation of AUF1 impairs DNA repair, followed ...
Medical Xpress / Patients with congenital heart defects are more likely to suffer a heart attack at an earlier age
Patients born with heart defects experience their first acute heart attack at a significantly earlier age than others. This is shown by a new national study from Lund University in Sweden. However, despite this earlier onset ...
Phys.org / Largest-ever survey of physicists puts Standard Model of cosmology under scrutiny
The largest-ever survey of physicists from around the world—released today—shows a distinct lack of consensus across many of physics's most important questions, from the nature of black holes and dark matter, to the still-incomplete ...
Medical Xpress / Teen depression linked with higher substance use rates
Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adolescents experienced depression between 2021 and 2023, and those teens were significantly more likely to use substances such as alcohol, marijuana and opioids, according to a new national study.
