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Released: 11-Jul-2022 11:05 AM EDT
Drinking Alone Foreshadows Future Alcohol Problems
Carnegie Mellon University

A new study has found that drinking alone as an adolescent and young adult can increase the risk of alcohol use disorder later in life, especially for women.

Newswise: Iodine status varies across Canada, raising deficiency risk in some regions
Released: 11-Jul-2022 11:05 AM EDT
Iodine status varies across Canada, raising deficiency risk in some regions
McMaster University

Iodine deficiency, a public health concern resolved decades ago, may be making a comeback due to changing eating habits, according to new findings by McMaster University researchers.

Released: 11-Jul-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Mayo Clinic Laboratories Launches Monkeypox Test to Increase Access, Availability
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic Laboratories can now test for monkeypox, a rare viral infection, using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) orthopoxvirus test kit.

Released: 11-Jul-2022 8:40 AM EDT
Abe assassination is a rare act of gun violence in Japan
Newswise

The assassination of Shinzo Abe in Japan, where guns are strictly regulated, is not proof that gun laws have failed to prevent gun violence.

Released: 8-Jul-2022 3:35 PM EDT
VUMC and Roivant Social Ventures announce collaboration to develop therapies for underserved populations
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Roivant Social Ventures (RSV) this week announced an intention to collaborate in developing therapies for traditionally underserved populations and diseases. RSV is a not-for-profit social impact organization founded by executives from Roivant Sciences that is focused on improving health equity.

Released: 8-Jul-2022 1:05 PM EDT
New Study Explores Link Between Job Losses and the Health of Young Adults During the Great Recession
Dickinson College

A new study published in the journal Health Economics is the first to comprehensively examine the impact of job losses during the U.S. Great Recession of 2008-09 on the mental health, physical health and the health behavior of young adults.

Released: 8-Jul-2022 12:40 PM EDT
Sweetened Beverage Taxes Produce Net Economic Benefits for Lower-Income Communities
University of Washington

New research led by University of Washington professors James Krieger and Melissa Knox found that sweetened beverage taxes redistributed dollars from higher- to lower-income households.

   
Newswise: Scientists Develop Tools for Early Detection of SARS-COV-2 Variants in Wastewater
Released: 7-Jul-2022 3:10 PM EDT
Scientists Develop Tools for Early Detection of SARS-COV-2 Variants in Wastewater
Scripps Research Institute

New tools developed at Scripps Research and UC San Diego are helping public health officials around the world get vital information about pathogen variants from wastewater.

Newswise: Awash in Potential: Wastewater Provides Early Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Virus
6-Jul-2022 5:10 PM EDT
Awash in Potential: Wastewater Provides Early Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Virus
UC San Diego Health

Scientists and physicians at UC San Diego and Scripps Research describe how wastewater sequencing provided dramatic new insights into levels and variants of SARS-CoV-2 on campus and in the broader community — a key step to public health interventions in advance of COVID-19 case surges.

   
Released: 6-Jul-2022 5:05 PM EDT
‘One Health’ Approach Is Necessary to Address Rising Environmental Causes of Childhood Cancers
Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO)

A multi-disciplinary, “One Health” approach to cancer research is necessary to guide society in reduction of toxic substances, as well as regulation of chemical impacts on the environment and public health, according to an editorial published recently in Issue II of Annals of Research in Oncology.

Released: 6-Jul-2022 1:35 PM EDT
Vitamin D Supplement ‘Overdosing’ Is Possible and Harmful, Warn Doctors
BMJ

‘Overdosing’ on vitamin D supplements is both possible and harmful, warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports after they treated a man who needed hospital admission for his excessive vitamin D intake.

Newswise: Nanoparticle Vaccine Protects Against a Spectrum of COVID-19-Causing Variants and Related Viruses
Released: 5-Jul-2022 2:45 PM EDT
Nanoparticle Vaccine Protects Against a Spectrum of COVID-19-Causing Variants and Related Viruses
California Institute of Technology

A new type of vaccine provides protection against a variety of SARS-like betacoronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2 variants, in mice and monkeys, according to a study led by researchers in the laboratory of Caltech's Pamela Bjorkman, the David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Bioengineering.

Released: 5-Jul-2022 2:05 PM EDT
To Reduce Smoking Rates in Prisons, Cessation Programs Must Be Expanded and Extended
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers researchers find that for programs in prison to effectively curb smoking, at least four weeks of direct intervention is required, followed by months of substance dependence group counseling.

Released: 5-Jul-2022 1:25 PM EDT
Study Reveals Why Highly Infectious Cholera Variant Mysteriously Died Out
University of Cambridge

A new study reveals why a highly infectious variant of the cholera bug, which caused large disease outbreaks in the early 1990s, did not cause the eighth cholera pandemic as feared – but instead unexpectedly disappeared.

Released: 5-Jul-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Age May Rival Politics in COVID-19 Vaccine Debate
University of Georgia

New research from the University of Georgia suggests age and risk perception may have as much of an effect on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance as party affiliation.

   
Released: 5-Jul-2022 9:45 AM EDT
South Asian Communities in GTA disproportionately hit by COVID-19
McMaster University

A COVID CommUNITY – South Asian study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) Open has found that South Asian communities living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) suffered disproportionately from COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic.

Released: 5-Jul-2022 9:45 AM EDT
Columbia University & CDC Partner With Zambian Scientists to Prevent Pandemics
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health

Columbia University’s Global Alliance for Preventing Pandemics announces an agreement with the University of Zambia’s School of Veterinary Medicine and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention to train Zambian public health professionals to better identify and contain pathogen outbreaks.

   
28-Jun-2022 2:25 PM EDT
Interventions Based on Social Needs May Reduce Hospitalizations, Health Care Use
American College of Physicians (ACP)

A randomized study of adult Medicaid patients suggests that social program-based interventions for housing, food security, and transportation may reduce inpatient admission rates by 11 percent and emergency department visits by 4 percent. However, health care savings based on these interventions may not cover the cost of social the social programs. The findings are published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Newswise: Disease in Conflict: UCI-led study found COVID-19 exacerbated link between global conflict and existing respiratory illnesses
Released: 1-Jul-2022 7:05 PM EDT
Disease in Conflict: UCI-led study found COVID-19 exacerbated link between global conflict and existing respiratory illnesses
University of California, Irvine

PhD in Public Health student examined disease trends and potential impacts of COVID-19 in northern Syria, underscores the need for enhanced infectious disease surveillance in areas facing humanitarian crisis to reduce the global spread of disease. Parts of the world facing conflict and humanitarian disaster tend to experience a high burden of disease, but their disease monitoring systems remain largely understudied.

   


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