Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Paramedics in England are experiencing wide-ranging challenges in responding to the increasing number of end-of-life care patients they are being called out to, according to a…
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New study adds to evidence of stroke and heart attack risk with some hormonal contraceptives
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Certain hormonal contraceptives are associated with a higher stroke and heart attack risk, finds a large study from Denmark in The BMJ that draws on prescription…
Innovative protein hydrogel shows potential for targeted drug delivery
Credit: Journal of Controlled Release (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2024.12.026 A research team, affiliated with UNIST has unveiled soft self-standing protein hydrogels that selectively deliver drugs, thereby enhancing medicinal effects while minimizing…
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with actual hearts in mind, says dietitian
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Valentine’s Day is a celebration of the heart. But some of the cliched approaches to commemorate it—a big red box of candy and a decadent dinner…
Older people in England are happier now than before the COVID pandemic, national study suggests
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Older people have greater general happiness, life satisfaction and sense of purpose than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s according to a new study which…
Professor discusses using light to ‘hear’ viruses
Tracking of acoustic spectra for tethered (A) from untethered (B) gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2420428122 Elad Harel is used to shining…
Brain-inspired neural networks reveal insights into biological basis of relational learning
Diagram of plastic neural network. These networks are similar to traditional neural networks, but include plastic connections (in red) which can change as a result of a plasticity signal (red…
Mental health is key contributor
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Around one in five UK medical students consider dropping out of medical school, with mental health issues a key contributor to their intention to abandon medicine,…
Study fails to show that youth vaping causes future smoking
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of public health researchers has found “very low-certainty evidence” to support a commonly held belief that nicotine vaping is a gateway to cigarette smoking…
Modernizing the management of health records
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The U.S. health-care system exchanges tens of millions of patient records a day. Thanks to recent technological advances, the ability to analyze such large amounts of…
