Category: 6. Health

Patient consent

This study was approved by the Columbia University Irving Medical Center Institutional Review Board, with a waiver of informed consent. This study was approved through the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects at UTHealth,…

This study identified significant disparities in the burden of IBD across five East Asian countries, with a distinct correlation between these variations and each country’s socioeconomic development level (SDI) level. Through comparative…

Researchers found that patients with stage III or IV cancer who quit smoking gained nearly a full year of additional life over their counterparts who continued, highlighting the important role of smoking cessation support…

Study participants

Study design

Participants for this cross-sectional study were chosen among the attendees at a physical examination center in Shanghai using convenience sampling from July to December 2023. In order to protect patient privacy,…

Hospital stay duration

Fourteen studies [10, 19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29, 31, 32] were included to assess the effect of EOF versus TOF on the length of hospital stay (Fig. 2). A random-effects model showed a statistically significant…

Study design and population

Study design and methods of UK Biobank have been reported in detail previously [17]. For this analysis, we excluded participants who did not complete the 24-hour food recall questionnaire (n = 291,290), those…

The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is undergoing more scrutiny by the Trump administration in their ongoing reassessment of vaccines despite the worst measles outbreak in decades.

Jim O’Neill, the deputy secretary of the US Department…

Stevia – the natural sugar substitute – may help boost hair loss treatment, suggests a new study in mice. Scientists developed a dissolving patch that contained a sweetener derived from the Stevia plant, which helped improve the efficacy of…

• Grants Bio-Techne expanded commercial rights to develop a portfolio of genetics products beyond the recently launched AmplideX® Nanopore Carrier Plus Kit
• Establishes a…