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Released: 9-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
The secret to better rural healthcare: Pay doctors to travel from urban to rural areas
American Marketing Association (AMA)

Researchers from University of Oxford, Arizona State University, and University of Iowa published a new Journal of Marketing study that examines how paying doctors to visit rural areas is a cost-effective way to provide reasonable access and effective care to most rural communities.

Newswise: UC Study: Thirdhand smoke may harm children
Released: 9-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
UC Study: Thirdhand smoke may harm children
University of Cincinnati

It’s long been established that secondhand smoke is a detriment to health and linked to cancer.

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5-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
What’s in Your Bottled Water? Study Suggests There May Be Hundreds of Thousands of Tiny Plastic Bits
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

A breakthrough microscopic technique that can detect minute particles of plastic in bottled water that can pass into human blood, cells and the placenta with unknown health effects has been developed by a team of researchers from Rutgers and Columbia universities.

Released: 8-Jan-2024 7:05 AM EST
Appalachia acutely suffers from opioid addiction and substance abuse disorders. An accredited online curriculum aids frontline prescribers in combating the crisis
The Rothman Orthopaedic Institute Foundation for Opioid Research and Education

A Philadelphia-based non-profit foundation is combating the opioid addiction epidemic at the source by educating frontline allied health professionals on various aspects of the nation's opioid crisis, specifically in Pennsylvania and the Appalachian region.

Newswise: Some mosquitoes like it hot
8-Jan-2024 1:05 AM EST
Some mosquitoes like it hot
Washington University in St. Louis

Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis. .

Newswise: About 22 high school age adolescents died each week from overdoses in 2022, driven by fentanyl-laced prescription pills
5-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
About 22 high school age adolescents died each week from overdoses in 2022, driven by fentanyl-laced prescription pills
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Embargoed research finds an average of 22 adolescents 14 to 18 years of age died in the U.S. each week in 2022 from drug overdoses, raising the death rate for this group to 5.2 per 100,000-- driven by fentanyl in counterfeit pills. The researchers also found 19 "hotspot" counties with particularly high overdose deaths.

Released: 5-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST
UofL study shows nicotine in e-cigarettes may not be harmless, as some claim
University of Louisville

With the start of a new year, smokers and vapers may have resolved to quit or cut back on the habit to improve their health.

Released: 5-Jan-2024 3:05 PM EST
After COP28 “insider” climate activists will become increasingly important, study suggests.
University of Exeter

Climate campaigners will increasingly adopt “insider activist” roles, working to change or challenge their organisations from the inside rather than the outside, a new study says.

   
Released: 4-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
Check Your Carbon Monoxide Detectors Ahead of Winter Weather
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Poison Control Experts give safety tips ahead of winter storm.

Released: 4-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
New population risk prediction model for likelihood of ICU admission and survival
Regenstrief Institute

A significant obstacle to improving care and outcomes for intensive care unit (ICU) patients is the unexpected nature of becoming seriously ill. Which groups of patients are likely to become severely ill and will they survive their ICU stay?

Released: 4-Jan-2024 2:00 PM EST
Starting a family with the help of science: The latest research in Fertility
Newswise

Find the latest research and features on fertility in the Fertility News Source on Newswise.

       
Newswise: Study Finds Paxlovid Treatment Does Not Reduce Risk of Long COVID
4-Jan-2024 10:10 AM EST
Study Finds Paxlovid Treatment Does Not Reduce Risk of Long COVID
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

A team of researchers from UC San Francisco has found that Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir) did not reduce the risk of developing long COVID for vaccinated, non-hospitalized individuals during their first COVID-19 infection.

Newswise: Fitness with no age limit
Released: 4-Jan-2024 5:05 AM EST
Fitness with no age limit
University of Missouri, Columbia

For nearly 20 years, Stephen Ball has been a man on a mission: helping older Missourians stay healthy and get stronger through physical activity.

Newswise: New Study: Is There a Link Between COVID-19 Vaccination and POTS?
Released: 4-Jan-2024 12:05 AM EST
New Study: Is There a Link Between COVID-19 Vaccination and POTS?
Cedars-Sinai

A new research study from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai aimed to understand the possible connection between COVID-19 vaccination and a difficult-to-diagnose heart condition called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS.

Released: 2-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST
The ‘tripledemic’ surge
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Study examines the impact of flu, RSV and COVID-19 hitting pediatric emergency departments



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