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…
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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…
Firefighters face a higher brain cancer risk associated with gene mutations caused by chemical exposure, study suggests
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Gene mutations caused by exposure to certain chemical compounds have been linked to the development of gliomas, the most common type of malignant brain tumor. New…
