An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby…
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Philly’s street fentanyl contains an industrial chemical called BTMPS that’s an ingredient in plastic
As much as half of the fentanyl sold on Philly’s streets contains an industrial chemical used in plastics manufacturing. That’s according to our November 2024 testing of fentanyl samples collected…
Breast cancer death rates have stopped going down, study reveals
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A paper in the Journal of Breast Imaging indicates that breast cancer mortality rates have stopped declining in women older than age 74, and reconfirms that…
Cases of Parkinson’s disease set to reach 25 million worldwide by 2050, study suggests
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain By 2050, there will be 25.2 million people living with Parkinson’s disease worldwide (a 112% increase from 2021), largely due to population aging, suggests a modeling…
Study challenges conventional thought on nurse continuity in ICUs
Credit: Laura James from Pexels A new Penn Nursing study published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society challenges conventional thought regarding the benefits of continuity in nursing care…
Psychological “Noise” May Reveal More About Human Thought Than Expected
Summary: New studies challenge the idea that variability in human behavior, often seen as “noise,” is simply an error to be minimized. Researchers argue that noise provides valuable insights into…
Anxiety and Apathy Affect Decision-Making in Opposite Ways
Summary: A new study reveals that anxiety and apathy lead to fundamentally different patterns in decision-making under uncertainty. Anxious individuals perceive their environment as highly volatile, leading them to explore…
COVID-19 is the latest epidemic to show biomedical breakthroughs aren’t enough to eliminate a disease
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed over the past five years from a catastrophic threat that has killed over 7 million people to what most people regard today as a tolerable annoyance…
Lead and toxic chemicals found in synthetic braiding hair
by I. Edwards Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Some popular synthetic hair products used for braids, twists and extensions may contain cancer-causing chemicals and high levels of lead, according to a…
Better semen quality is linked to men living longer
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Men’s semen quality is associated with how long they live, according to a study of nearly 80,000 men, published in Human Reproduction. The study followed the…
