Focusing on diet and exercise to curb childhood obesity may be counterproductive and lead to missing other root causes of becoming overweight, according to a newly released report from Vanderbilt University researchers. “Reframing Childhood Obesity: Cultural Insights on Nutrition, Weight, and Food Systems,” from the Vanderbilt Cultural Contexts of Health and Wellbeing Initiative, finds that focusing on a child’s individual […]

Several scientific studies have indicated a connection between obstructive sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease. According to Elizabeth Muxfeldt, MD, PhD, cardiologist and professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Estácio de Sá University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea among individuals with drug-resistant hypertension is around 80%. Leonardo Siqueira, MD, electrophysiologist at […]

The average life expectancy for a Black person in the United States is 76 years, according to a 2017 study that finds that Whites are expected to live until the age of 79. The infant mortality rate is 2.3 times higher for Blacks than Whites, per the study. It found that the infant mortality rate for Black and American Indian […]

Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages lead to a 15% decline in sugary drink purchasing and increased prices of targeted drinks, as indicated by a tax pass-through of 82%, a meta-analysis and systematic review suggest. There was a –1.59 price elasticity of demand, reported Tatiana Andreyeva, PhD, of the University of Connecticut in Hartford, and colleagues. These data were published online June […]

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TULSA, Okla., (Reuters) – A gunman, who fatally shot five people including himself at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, medical building after buying an assault-style rifle the same day, had gone to there to kill a doctor who he blamed for back pain he felt after surgery, authorities said on Thursday. The suspect, identified as Michael Lewis, entered a building on the St. […]

A team of researchers from the College of Design and Engineering, the N.1 Institute for Health and the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore at the National University of Singapore has recently engineered in vitro tumor models to better understand the crosstalk between liver cancer cells and their microenvironment. Using lab-grown mini liver tumors co-cultured with endothelial cells—these are cells that […]

As prices for genetic testing go down and awareness of what these tests can do goes up, more and more people are choosing to have their DNA analyzed. One limitation to these tests is that even when they are conducted with guidance from a doctor, genetic variants may be detected whose roles in disease risk are not fully understood. In […]

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers assessed the impact of modern causal inference methods in estimating the effect of corticosteroids against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related mortality. Study: Corticosteroids in COVID-19: Optimizing Observational Research through Target Trial Emulations. Image Credit: luchschenF/Shutterstock Observational research has provided great opportunities to understand the causal effects in the absence of […]

Aromatherapy reduces post-surgical opioid use by half in hip replacement patients anxious before their operation, according to a new preliminary study being presented at the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) in Milan, Italy (4-6 June). Previous research has shown that anxiety, depression and catastrophizing (patients who believe they are going to die during […]