Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Public confidence in vaccines has plunged across sub-Saharan Africa since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study of 17,000 people, across eight countries, published today in…
Tag: Health informatics
Breastfeeding for longer may be linked to better exam results in later life
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Children who are breastfed for longer appear to be more likely to gain slightly better results in their school GSCEs at age 16 compared with non-breastfed…
Want to know how processed your food is? There’s an algorithm for that
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Northeastern researchers have been busy trying to better understand the links between “ultra-processed foods” and human health through the university-sponsored Foodome project. As part of that…
Balancing economic and epidemiological interventions in the early stages of pathogen emergence
Flow diagram of the epidemiological components of the model described in Results.We have modified the basic SEIR formulation by dividing the exposed (E) and infectious (I) classes into two sequential…
Social vulnerability tied to higher assault-related firearm death rates for youth
States with restrictive gun laws have lower rates of assault-related firearm deaths among youths, but youths from socially vulnerable communities are disproportionately impacted across the spectrum of state gun laws,…
Study finds that eight factors put Black adults at greater risk of early death
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Black adults who live in the United States have a 59% higher risk of premature death than White adults. A new study from Tulane University published…
AI tool outperforms human emergency call handlers in identifying stroke, new study shows
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers from Denmark has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) framework to address the number of strokes that go unrecognized by human emergency…
A lifetime of racism makes Alzheimer’s more prevalent in Black Americans
Photographs of mother and daughter, Constance and Jessica Guthrie, decorate a bedroom, in Fredericksburg, Va., on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. While some risk factors for Alzheimer’s may differ by race,…
Study estimates that over 800 million people globally will be living with back pain by 2050
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Analysis of over 30 years of data has shown the number of cases of low back pain is growing, with modeling suggesting by 2050, 843 million…
A proposed new metric to quantify genetic dissimilarities between an individual and a training population
Illustration of population-level versus individual-level PGS accuracy. a, Discrete labeling of GIA with PCA-based clustering. Each dot represents an individual. The circles represent arbitrary boundaries imposed on the genetic ancestry…
