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…
Category: Health & Medicine
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…
Opioid prescriptions in the ED linked to small increases in future opioid use, hospitalizations
Credit: Pixabay from Pexels Opioid prescriptions in the emergency department (ED) were associated with small increases in later opioid prescriptions and hospital admissions, found new research published in the Canadian…
What is botulism? How this ‘nerve-paralyzing illness’ can be linked to dodgy botox
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The news last week that three people in Sydney were hospitalized with botulism after receiving botox injections has raised questions about the regulation of the cosmetic…
Scientists deplore sharp US cut in medical research funding
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The US agency overseeing medical research has announced a major cut in funding to universities and research centers, a move strongly condemned by scientists and academics…
A spine-zapping implant helped 3 people with a muscle-wasting disease walk better
This image from video provided by UPMC and University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences shows Doug McCullough, who has spinal muscular atrophy, during tests of experimental spinal cord stimulation to improve…
