Correcting misinformation after it has gone viral is a common way of informing the public that what they’ve encountered may be inaccurate, lack context, be unproven, or be demonstrably false. But repeating a misconception when…
Category: 6. Health
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Associated factors for birth-related post-traumatic stress symptoms using a birth-specific measurement: a cross-sectional study | BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
MATERNAL NEWBORN, CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH AND, AGEING [Internet]. World Health Organization. 2023 [cited 20230109]. Available from:
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Study links higher glycemic index diets with increased lung cancer risk
Background: In this study, researchers examined whether people who follow higher-GI or higher-GL diets have different risks of developing lung cancer. They used data from 101,732 adults in the U.S. National Cancer Institute’s…
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Inequalities in the use of three-dose of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine among women in Sierra Leone, 2008–2019 | Malaria Journal
Ayub AO, Ibrahim A, Abdulkareem SB. Poverty, HIV/AIDS and malaria: a triple burden of disease in Nigeria. Kogi J Sociol. 2024;4:1–15.
Makenga G, Menon S, Baraka V, Minja DTR, Nakato S,…
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Short bursts of oxygen deprivation could help treat depression, Chinese study concludes
Brief, controlled bouts of oxygen deprivation – essentially moments of safe suffocation – can alleviate severe depression as effectively as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and ketamine, two of the most powerful treatments known to psychiatry,…
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Evaluation of geriatric head and neck trauma cases in a German highest-level trauma centre from 2018 to 2024 | BMC Geriatrics
Grabbe C. Vulnerable Groups – Agisra e.V. 2020;:12 Seiten. https://doi.org/10.17169/REFUBIUM-26554.
Rolnitsky A, Kirtsman M, Goldberg HR, Dunn M, Bell CM. The representation of vulnerable populations in quality improvement studies. Int J Qual Health…
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Study reveals metabolic benefits of reducing ultra-processed foods in older adults
A controlled feeding study out of South Dakota State University shows that older adults who ate fewer ultra-processed foods naturally consumed fewer calories, lost weight and abdominal fat, and showed improvements in insulin,…
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New research questions reliability of macaque models for TIGIT-targeted cancer treatments
A new study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center finds that TIGIT, an immune checkpoint receptor targeted by cancer immunotherapy drugs, triggers a different response in rhesus…
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Top oncologist shares 5 foods that can help starve cancer and lower risk
Dr. Dawn Mussallem calls purple sweet potatoes her favorite food and emphasizes their unique ability to modulate gene activity. “They can turn off genes that promote cancer and turn on tumor-suppressor genes — it’s like giving your body a…
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