Electronic cigarettes — or vapes — can release puffs of vapor in aromatic clouds. The health risks of breathing in this secondhand or passive vapor aren’t fully understood. So, researchers reporting in…
Nearly half of federal health surveillance databases either stopped or delayed routine updates last year, with potentially dire consequences to public health, according to researchers. A newly-released audit of nearly 1,400 public records from the Centers for Disease…
A new Central Data Repository (CDR) launched by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) aims to strengthen how public health data is integrated, analysed and used across the…
Decades-long U.S. study suggests prevention and screening should start earlier in adulthood Men reached 5% cardiovascular disease risk about seven years earlier than women Coronary heart disease drove most of the gap…
Because treatment of the whole prostate can lead to long-term side effects in patients with prostate cancer, interest in minimally invasive, focal treatment options has been growing for certain patients. A clinical…
Dispensaries in one of the first US states to legalize recreational cannabis sales continue to disregard a law aimed at reducing the risk of consuming alcohol and cannabis simultaneously. Polysubstance use can…
Findings could help pave the way for new brain-machine interfaces and other non-opioid therapies A neural circuit hidden in an understudied region of the brain plays a critical role in turning temporary…
Artificial intelligence has crossed a tipping point in behavioral health, moving from experimentation to expectation, according to new survey findings released today by Kipu Health, the leading behavioral healthcare technology provider and…
Salk Institute’s new atlas reveals inherited and environmental epigenetic changes play distinct roles in regulating immune cells; findings could inspire new personalized treatments for infectious diseases The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous…
A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, the findings could redefine…
