Single women in Australian aged care need more funding as new data show widows living longer

Temporal plots of average lengths of stay at an aged care across various covariates: uncensored data over 2008–2018. a Year. b Sex. c Age. d State. e Preferred language. f…

Fewer bees and other pollinating insects lead to shrinking crops

Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping in…

How high school athletes can safely prepare for the start of practice, and the warning signs of heat illness

High school sports teams start practices soon in what has been an extremely hot summer in much of the country. Now, before they hit the field, is the time for…

Warning signs of heat illness and how high school athletes can safely prepare for the start of team practices

High school sports teams start practices soon in what has been an extremely hot summer in much of the country. Now, before they hit the field, is the time for…

Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettling

Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread disability affecting the health and quality of life of millions of people across the globe and costing economies…

Time-lapse imaging for embryo selection in IVF does not improve the odds of live birth, large study finds

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A randomized controlled trial looked at in-vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes in the UK and Hong Kong. The results, published in The Lancet, provide much-needed evidence that…

Rising antimicrobial resistance in certain Salmonella serovars isolated from retail chicken meat

Scanning electron micrograph of Salmonella Typhimurium invading a human epithelial cell. S. Typhimurium has been decreasing in prevalence due to vaccinations by the poultry industry. Credit: National Institute of Allergy…

Mental health apps may help those waiting for care, study finds

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The recent surge in people seeking mental health care across the country has led to long wait times for first appointments with therapists and psychiatrists. Now,…

Late bedtimes and not enough sleep can harm developing brains – and poorer kids are more at risk

Shorter sleep and later bedtimes are linked to potentially harmful functional changes to parts of the brain important for coping with stress and controlling negative emotions, our recently published research…

Research shows young infants use their mother’s scent to perceive faces

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Humans see the world through the five senses, but how and when the ability to integrate across the senses arises is debated. Research shows that humans…