Understaffed hospitals have higher rates of infection, study says

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Inadequate infection prevention and control staffing levels are associated with higher rates of health care-associated infections, according to a new study published in the American Journal…

Do people with MS have an increased risk of cancer?

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study has found some cancers to be slightly more frequent in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) than in people without MS. The study is published…

Frequent social media use harmful for high school students, study finds

Frequent social media use is potentially harmful for adolescent mental health among U.S. high school students, according to research published in a supplement to the Oct. 10 issue of the…

Heat stress impacts infant growth rates up to age of 2, new analysis suggests

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Exposure to high levels of heat may both impact the growth of fetuses during pregnancy and infants up to the age of 2, a new analysis…

A study on Indigenous healing and Western client experiences

Dayak women are taking a rest during the ritual. Credit: Radmila Lorencova A recent study published in the Explore journal sheds light on an emerging trend in mental health care:…

Employers opt to give workers an allowance for coverage

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Dave Lantz is no stranger to emergency department or doctor bills. With three kids in their teens and early 20s, “when someone gets sick or breaks…

Study finds common breast cancer treatments may speed aging process

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study led by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has revealed that common breast cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery,…

Harnessing natural killer T cells to advance cancer immunotherapy for solid tumors

CAR-NKT cells target tumor cells in vitro. a, Representative flow cytometry plots illustrating the purity of NKT cells isolated from the spleen of iVα14-Jα18 transgenic mice, n = 12 with similar results.…

Machine learning model can diagnose Meniere disease

A machine learning model based on pure-tone audiometry features can diagnose Meniere disease (MD) and predict endolymphatic hydrops (EH), according to a study published online Aug. 28 in Otolaryngology-Head and…

Rwanda will deploy Marburg vaccine under trial as death toll rises to 12

In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo, a medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man…