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Newswise: Tracking Mental Health Over the COVID-19 Pandemic
Released: 26-Oct-2022 5:15 PM EDT
Tracking Mental Health Over the COVID-19 Pandemic
 Elsevier

When the world shut down in March of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, people the world over experienced profound psychological stress to varying degrees.

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Released: 26-Oct-2022 1:25 PM EDT
Multistate study examines mRNA vaccine effectiveness for immunocompromised adults during Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 predominance
 Regenstrief Institute

A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s VISION Network presents and analyzes some of the first real-world data on mRNA COVID vaccine effectiveness during Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 predominance for immunocompromised adults.

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Newswise: Updated Policy Regarding Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems
Released: 26-Oct-2022 11:20 AM EDT
Updated Policy Regarding Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems
 Yale Cancer Center/Smilow Cancer Hospital

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) have issued an updated policy, regarding the use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, is corresponding author on the statement published today in both Clinical Cancer Research and the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

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Released: 26-Oct-2022 11:05 AM EDT
Power of the Pocketbook: An Ethicist Weighs in on Ethical Consumption
 Binghamton University, State University of New York

Binghamton University Philosophy Professor Nicole Hassoun considers the global health responsibilities of pharmaceutical companies, and makes the case for a new kind of ethical investment in public health.

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Newswise: Vitamin D deficiency linked to premature death
Released: 26-Oct-2022 7:40 AM EDT
Vitamin D deficiency linked to premature death
 University of South Australia

Now, new research from the University of South Australia gives strong evidence that vitamin D deficiency is associated with premature death, prompting calls for people to follow healthy vitamin D level guidelines.

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Released: 25-Oct-2022 5:15 PM EDT
Do Financial Incentives Increase Adult Vaccinations? A View of Lessons Learned
 Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health

Cash transfers had limited outcomes for increasing vaccination efforts among adults, according to research led by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits).

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Released: 25-Oct-2022 2:10 PM EDT
The latest news in Opioids, Drug Abuse, and Addiction
 Newswise

Here are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Drugs and drug abuse channel.

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Newswise: COVID-Causing Virus in Air Detected with High-Tech Bubbles
Released: 25-Oct-2022 1:50 PM EDT
COVID-Causing Virus in Air Detected with High-Tech Bubbles
 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Scientists can detect the virus that causes COVID-19 by using a bubble that spills its contents like a piñata when encountering the virus.

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Released: 25-Oct-2022 10:55 AM EDT
Best Evidence Yet That Lowering Blood Pressure Can Prevent Dementia
 George Institute for Global Health

A global study of over 28,000 people has provided the strongest evidence to date that lowering blood pressure in later life can cut the risk of dementia.

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Released: 25-Oct-2022 10:00 AM EDT
Rutgers Expert Available to Discuss RSV, COVID and Influenza / Respiratory Virus Season
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

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Released: 24-Oct-2022 5:25 PM EDT
Anxiety disorders had no effect on vaccine hesitancy
 University of Waterloo

Individuals who deal with anxiety are no less hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine compared to those without anxiety, according to new research.

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18-Oct-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Vitamin D Deficiency Associated with Increased Mortality Risk
American College of Physicians (ACP)

A study of more than 300,000 adults in the United Kingdom has found support for a causal relationship between vitamin D deficiency and mortality. These findings suggest a need for public health strategies to maintain healthy levels of vitamin D in the population. The study is published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

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18-Oct-2022 2:05 PM EDT
ACP says policies needed to improve environmental health
 American College of Physicians (ACP)

Environmental pollutants can seriously harm human health, says the American College of Physicians (ACP) in a new position paper published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Environmental Health: A Position Paper From the American College of Physicians.

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Newswise: November Is Lung Cancer Awareness Month - What You Need to Know About Screenings
Released: 24-Oct-2022 3:30 PM EDT
November Is Lung Cancer Awareness Month - What You Need to Know About Screenings
 Mount Auburn Hospital

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Newswise: Low-Income California Residents Experience Higher Temperature and Unhealthy Air Quality Days, Worsened by Wildfires
Released: 24-Oct-2022 3:10 PM EDT
Low-Income California Residents Experience Higher Temperature and Unhealthy Air Quality Days, Worsened by Wildfires
University of California, Irvine

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Newswise: Wendy Purcell Joins the Rutgers School of Public Health
Released: 24-Oct-2022 12:05 PM EDT
Wendy Purcell Joins the Rutgers School of Public Health
 Rutgers School of Public Health

Wendy Purcell, PhD, FRSA, has joined the Rutgers School of Public Health as a professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice.

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Newswise: Study: Concerns over COVID-19 vaccine’s effectiveness, not general medical mistrust, slowed early uptake in Black, Latinx communities
Released: 24-Oct-2022 12:05 PM EDT
Study: Concerns over COVID-19 vaccine’s effectiveness, not general medical mistrust, slowed early uptake in Black, Latinx communities
 DePaul University

New research on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Black, Latinx communities could help shape more persuasive messages to boost uptake.

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11-Oct-2022 12:00 PM EDT
Regular use of common cholesterol-lowering drug linked to reduction of COVID-19 severity, risk of death
 American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

Commonly used cholesterol-lowering statins may reduce the risk of death and severity of COVID-19 disease, suggests a study of more than 38,000 patients being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2022 annual meeting.

Released: 21-Oct-2022 9:30 AM EDT
Neither Pfizer nor the government ever claimed to have conducted studies on the vaccine's effect on transmission in its original clinical trials
 Newswise

Pfizer didn’t claim to have tested its COVID-19 vaccine’s ability to prevent transmission, and this information was clearly available in press releases published by the European Medicines Agency as well as the published study containing results from Pfizer’s clinical trials.

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Released: 21-Oct-2022 8:45 AM EDT
Potential therapy derived from a banana protein works against SARS-CoV-2
 Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

A paper in Cell Reports Medicine details the efficacy of H84T-BanLec against all known human-infecting coronaviruses, including MERS, the original SARS, and SARS-CoV2, including the omicron variant.

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