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Medical Xpress / First trial confirms swimming reduces disability from chronic back pain
Australian research has shown for the first time that a swimming program can be clinically effective at reducing disability caused by chronic low back pain. Published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the EduSwim ...
Phys.org / How community-led health and livelihood programs helped protect rainforests during the pandemic
As COVID-19 disrupted rural economies, communities living near protected rainforests faced rising uncertainty about jobs, health and basic needs. A new study in The Lancet Planetary Health shows that when communities were ...
Phys.org / A new stellar census strengthens the case for a 13.8-billion-year-old universe
Astronomers have used the ages of more than 155,000 stars in the Milky Way to independently estimate the age of the universe, and their findings may be good news for the standard cosmological model. The new research was reported ...
Phys.org / New geopolitical-economic order framework shows firm strategies vary under two types of state-market order
A new paper published in Global Strategy Journal develops a geopolitical-economic order framework suggesting that the extent of geopolitical competition incentivizes states to create one of two types of economic order: a ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers examine the invisible hearing struggle of veteran students
Two university faculty members, both certified audiologists, are the first to study how tinnitus affects student veterans as they navigate college classrooms. Hearing loss and tinnitus are the two most common service-related ...
Medical Xpress / Doctors develop guiding principles for future of AI in health care
A UVA Health emergency medicine doctor and a colleague at Clemson University have developed a framework to help hospitals integrate artificial intelligence to not only increase efficiency and cut costs but also ensure high-quality ...
Phys.org / Students' emotional resources in high school linked to college completion
Academic achievement in high school has long been viewed as one of the strongest predictors of college success. But a new study from Penn State researchers suggests that students' emotional resources—including their motivation, ...
Phys.org / Quantum entanglement without transport: Leaky qubits offer route around noisy channels
The inevitable leakage of energy and information from a quantum system into its surrounding environment is the enemy of quantum technology. Now, researchers have demonstrated that it can be exploited to generate entanglement—the ...
Medical Xpress / New body index aims to move beyond BMI and works for babies too
Body Mass Index (BMI) has long been used in public health and clinical settings as a simple tool to classify an individual's physical status based on their height and weight. Originally developed in the 1830s by Belgian mathematician ...
Medical Xpress / Building a blueprint to manipulate the immune system
Why do some vaccines protect for a lifetime, while threats like tumors and viruses present such an ongoing challenge? The answer lies in the immune system's memory and how invading pathogens hack the system.
Medical Xpress / Social media use during adolescence not linked to later mental ill-health
The amount of time Swedish teenagers spent on social media could not be linked to symptoms of depression or anxiety five years later, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the Journal of Adolescent ...
Medical Xpress / Charting children's eyes to head off global myopia epidemic
An international study co-led by The University of Western Australia has created the equivalent of infant growth curve charts for children's eyes to help clinicians identify warning signs of myopia.
