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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona) Spain is among the five countries in the world with the highest levels of social acceptance of LGBTIQ+ people and rights, and was the third country in the world to legalize same-sex...

(University of Waterloo) Bans on menthol cigarettes across Canada from 2016 to 2017 led to a significant increase in the number of smokers who attempted to quit, smokers who quit successfully, and lower rates of relapse ...

(New York University) Breast cancer survivors with a higher risk of cancer recurrence based on genomic testing may experience greater fear of their cancer returning, according to a new study led by researchers at NYU Ror...

(American Gastroenterological Association) After a detailed review of available literature, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) has released new clinical guidelines recommending the use of intragastric bal...

(University of California - San Francisco) Cells from individuals with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) were found to have higher than expected rates of methylation at specific sites on their DNA, when compared to cells f...

(University of British Columbia) New research shows aquatic species contain distinct and complementary sets of micronutrients--while animals offered similar amounts of protein, they varied greatly in concentrations of mi...

(McMaster University) People need to rethink what they stock in their home cabinets as allergy medicines, what hospitals keep on formulary, and what policymakers recommend. There are new modern second generation antihist...

(Duke University) A male baboon's social dominance requires constant physical defense and leaves its mark on his genes. Tracing the activity of 500 methylation sites on the baboon genome, a team of researchers working wi...

(American Thoracic Society) A new commentary published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society provides an exhaustive examination of published research that discusses whether air pollution may be linked to ...

(The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture) Researchers studying the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on food production among smallholder bean farmers in 11 countries ...

(American Heart Association) Cardiometabolic diseases including heart disease, obesity, hypertension and type 2 diabetes, are at the crest of an impending tsunami of chronic health conditions as a result of the SARS-CoV-...

(American Geriatrics Society) The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) celebrates Ellen Flaherty, PhD, APRN, AGSF, an Assistant Professor at the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and director of the Dartmouth Centers for ...

(Henry Ford Health System) A retrospective study by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit finds that workers in the manufacturing and construction industries have higher incidence of common hand, wrist injuries t...

(eLife ) Battling other male baboons to achieve high social status comes with physiological costs that accelerate aging, according to study published today in eLife.

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) As the toll of COVID-19 continues to climb, newly released poll data suggest an opportunity to use the pandemic as a prompt for discussing and documenting older adults' wishes...

(Earth Institute at Columbia University) The first multi-year air-quality data on the cities of Kinshasa and Brazzaville document rampant levels of sooty particles.

(Washington University School of Medicine) Nursing mothers who receive a COVID-19 vaccine may pass protective antibodies to their babies through breast milk for at least 80 days following vaccination, suggests new resear...

(University of Tsukuba) A University of Tsukuba study created a mathematical model to justify the cost-effectiveness of dietician-led behavior modification interventions for treating chronic kidney disease (CKD). As such...

(PLOS) During the early phase of the pandemic, approximately 40% of the COVID-19 literature was shared as preprints - freely available manuscripts that are shared prior to peer-review. In a study published in the open ac...

(Harvard Medical School) Curing cancer has been the dream of countless doctors and researchers over the decades. Yet some types of cancer, whether because they affect relatively few people or lack influential advocates, ...

(University of Southern California) Mothers in several African countries are more than 100 times more likely to have had a child die than mothers in many Asian and European countries. The study estimates the prevalence o...