Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Genetic counseling is essential when dealing with individuals who are affected by, or at risk of, inherited disease. Although it is known to be useful in…
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Scientists get closer to a better PSA test
The most common screening test for prostate cancer so often returns a false positive result that it’s no longer recommended for men older than 70, and it’s offered as a…
How COVID lockdowns distorted our sense of time—new research
Credit: Brian A Jackson/Shutterstock The perception of time is a psychological phenomenon, meaning external factors can modify the way we experience it. For example, time may seem to fly by…
Blood biomarkers plus genomics shown to predict common disease risk more accurately than genomic information alone
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Identifying people at high risk of chronic disease means that they can be targeted with prevention measures before they become sick. Polygenic risk scores, where genomic…
The use of AI in eye scans may help improve diagnosis of inherited disease of the retina
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), single-gene disorders affecting the retina, are very difficult to diagnose since they are uncommon and involve changes in one of many candidate…
Poll finds Americans rate cigarettes as most unsafe, addictive substance among options surveyed
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a new national poll, Americans widely agreed that cigarettes are unsafe (84%) and addictive (87%), and yet a fifth (21%) reported smoking every day. The…
New high-tech helmets may protect American football players from debilitating concussions
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Millions of people in the US are concussed every year playing sports. Players of games like American football are at particularly high risk for injuries that…
Confidence in vaccines has plummeted in Africa since the pandemic, shows eight-country study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Public confidence in vaccines has plunged across sub-Saharan Africa since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study of 17,000 people, across eight countries, published today in…
Trial finds chatbots have mixed effectiveness in increasing COVID-19 vaccine confidence in Asia
Flow diagram of the randomized controlled trial in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Flowchart presenting the number of participants assessed, enrolled, randomized, lost to follow-up, and analyzed in each child…
One-month of COVID-19 lockdown cost heart attack patients up to two years of life
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Patients who had heart attacks during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK and Spain are predicted to live 1.5 and 2 years less, respectively, than…
