Credit: CC0 Public Domain Wear and tear on plastic products releases small to nearly invisible plastic particles, which could impact people’s health when consumed or inhaled. To make these particles…
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Handheld electro-shockers can pose risk for individuals with cardiac implants, study finds
Findings reported in Heart Rhythm detail the interaction between handheld electro-shockers commonly used for self defense and cardiac implantable electronic devices. This image depicts the study’s main results. Credit: Heart…
Study finds 20% of women in Spain with menstrual pain have never been to a gynecologist
Themes related to menstrual discomforts identified during the qualitative analysis. Credit: Frontiers in Public Health (2025). DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1517302 A new study indicates that 70.9% of women in Spain experience menstrual…
People who are easily distracted by smartphones are more physiologically reactive, less attuned to their bodies: Study
Credit: Image created using ChatGPT-4.5. Haruki et al., 2025. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Over the past few decades, some studies have raised important questions about the psychological implications of…
Public housing smoking ban can reduce heart attacks and strokes
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A paper, “Evaluation of Federally Mandated Smoke-Free Housing Policy and Health Outcomes Among Adults Over the Age of 50 in Low-Income, Public Housing in New York…
Advances in the treatment of type 1 diabetes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Recent decades have seen a lot of progress in diabetes treatment. In a new study, Per-Ola Carlsson, Professor of Medical Cell Biology, has obtained promising results.…
Viability of hospital-based emergency care in US faces peril, report suggests
Credit: Pixabay from Pexels The viability of hospital-based emergency care in the U.S. is at risk, threatened by issues such as patients with increasingly complex needs and falling payments for…
Local access to abortion services expanded with mifepristone in community pharmacies, Canadian study finds
Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File Before 2017, abortions were generally performed as procedures in fewer than 100 hospitals and clinics mostly in urban centers, leading to delayed care, particularly for…
Getting ahead of head and neck cancer
Credit: Picas Joe from Pexels Many symptoms of head and neck cancer are hard to miss—a lump in the neck, persistent hoarseness, a mouth sore that doesn’t heal—which is good…
Young females face higher social anxiety from smartphone use, study finds
Credit: picjumbo.com from Pexels A new study presented today at the European Psychiatric Association Congress 2025 reveals that gender plays a significant role in excessive and problematic (psychological or behavioral…
