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…
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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…
First Bronze Age settlement in Africa’s Maghreb region discovered
University of Barcelona archaeologists have discovered the Maghreb region’s first known Bronze Age settlement. While the historical narrative credits the Phoenicians as the first complex culture to settle the region…
Brain waves measured during sleep predict cognitive impairment years before symptoms appear, study finds
Predicting cognitive impairment risk with features from univariate and multivariate EEG analyses. A) Layout of the full night low-density EEG set-up. B) Univariate (relative power) and multivariate EEG analyses (total…
Many more Denver teens have experienced homelessness than official counts show
Denver saw an increase in youth homelessness from 10% to 25% between 2017 and 2021, according to our study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal “Pediatrics.” We are two physicians…
