Summary: New research indicates a strong link between high social media use and psychiatric disorders involving delusions, such as narcissism and body dysmorphia. Conditions like narcissistic personality disorder, anorexia, and…
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Proposed legislation would provide crucial funding for endometriosis research
Credit: Sora Shimazaki from Pexels The Endometriosis CARE Act, which was introduced in 2022, seeks to deliver $50 million annually to advance research and expand access to treatment for this…
5 years of COVID-19 underscore value of coordinated efforts to manage disease – while CDC, NIH and WHO face threats to their ability to respond to a crisis
Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a global pandemic. The novel coronavirus, dubbed SARS-CoV-2, began as a “cluster of severe…
From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health
Federal datasets began disappearing from public view on Jan. 31, 2025, in response to executive orders from President Donald Trump. Among those were the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s…
Higher income is linked to both greater life satisfaction and more stress, study finds
Stress and life satisfaction trade-off with income. Trends against annual household income of (a) predicted life satisfaction for the respondents (NOverall = 2,038,169) who experienced prior-day (ES) and those who…
New test helps doctors predict a dangerous side effect of cancer treatment
Among the proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid, the researchers identified biomarkers that can accurately predict the development of ICANS. Specifically, two characteristic proteins, C1RL and FUCA2, were combined for highly…
Prenatal Stress Timing Shapes Infant Stress Response
Summary: New research reveals that the timing of stress during pregnancy has gender-specific effects on infants, altering how boys and girls respond to stress differently. Scientists found mid-pregnancy stress has…
Whether we imagine navigation or navigate in real life, our brainwaves look the same
Experimental paradigm. Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02119-3 Physical and imagined movement through real-world environments may use the same neural mechanism in the brain, suggests a Nature Human Behaviour…
