The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that around 60% of childhood hearing loss could be avoided through prevention measures. Preventable childhood hearing loss also disproportionately affects underserved populations and has lifelong consequences for language development, school achievement, and future employment opportunities. Samantha Robler, AuD, Ph.D., from Norton Sound Health Corporation and Susan D. Emmett, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Head […]

When the bacterium Helicobacter pylori infects the stomach, it causes gastric inflammation and increases the risk of stomach cancer. A team of researchers from Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) have been able to elucidate characteristic changes which occur inside the gastric glands during an H. pylori infection. The researchers discovered a novel mechanism which, […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has made two things abundantly clear: While prevention and management techniques are well-intentioned and successful, social distancing strategies can have severe consequences for older persons who are already at risk for the disease; and university students have had fewer opportunities to learn in traditional settings. Bridging those two paradigms is a collaboration between the University of Houston […]

Residential exposure to ambient air pollutants is linked to an elevated risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, an observational study of young adults in Stockholm, Sweden shows. The study was conducted by researchers from Karolinska Institutet and is published in JAMA Network Open. Since pollutants in outdoor air can increase the risk of respiratory infections such as influenza and SARS, the COVID-19 […]

In a new thesis, Rickard Strandberg, Ph.D. student at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, lays the foundations for a new natural history model for breast cancer. By taking advantage of available detailed screening cohorts, Rickard’s work includes three diverse applications of this model. The thesis includes four studies, starting with the development of the statistical framework for the […]

Lately, I’m not above any attempt to make all the everything of this past year feel a little less stressful. I long to be the type of person who can keep plants alive, have a flawless self-care morning ritual and not fall into negative stress spirals despite living through a global pandemic where medical guidance is deemed optional by so […]

Eating a Mediterranean diet during pregnancy may cut odds of getting pre-eclampsia by 20%, study finds Researchers studied eating habits of 8,500 pregnant women over two decades Those who closely followed diet were 22% less likely to develop pre-eclampsia Kim Kardashian suffered from condition, which affects one in 17 pregnancies Pregnant women who follow a Mediterranean diet are a fifth […]

Jane Seymour says she was 'honest' about cosmetic surgery We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info When she turned 70 last February, Jane Seymour simply said “I […]

A recent randomized controlled trial published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that an online decision aid may help older adults decide whether and when to stop driving. Compared with older adults who viewed an educational web site, those who viewed the decision aid—called Healthwise DDA—had lower decisional conflict and higher knowledge about whether to stop or […]

Inhaled nanoparticles – human-made specks so minuscule they can't be seen in conventional microscopes, found in thousands of common products – can cross a natural, protective barrier that normally protects fetuses, according to Rutgers University scientists studying factors that produce low-birth-weight babies. The scientists reported in the medical journal Placenta they were able to track the movement of nanoparticles made […]