Irrespective of gender, bullying is a considerably greater risk factor than overweight for developing depressive symptoms. Depressive symptoms are more common in teenage girls than in their male peers. However, boys’ mental health appears to ...
Quality care is a critical issue for mothers and newborn health. More women globally give birth in health facilities than ever before, but this has not always translated into dramatic gains in survival rates for ...
Most people who consume double the recommended 5g of daily salt intake are putting themselves at greater risk of heart diseases and strokes that kill an estimated 3 million people each year. Today, the World ...
Fully investing in midwives by 2035 would avert roughly two-thirds of maternal, newborn deaths and stillbirths, saving 4.3 million lives per year. Millions of lives of women and newborns are lost, and millions more experience ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Federal Republic of Germany will establish a new global hub for pandemic and epidemic intelligence, data, surveillance and analytics innovation. The Hub, based in Berlin and working with ...
WHO’s latest global survey on the implementation of national infection prevention and control programmes highlights the urgent need to reduce inequalities in the availability of good hand hygiene and other infection prevention and control measures ...
Volunteer firefighters — who comprise more than 65 percent of the U.S. fire service — have higher levels of “forever chemicals,” per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), in their bodies than the general public, according to ...
Yale researchers have shown that developmental abnormalities, including those that lead to pregnancy loss and autism, are controlled by the genetics of the fetus and placenta — and not the mother’s intrauterine environment. The findings ...
A Wyss Institute-led collaboration spanning four research labs and hundreds of miles has used the Institute’s human organ-on-a-chip (Organ Chip) technology to identify the antimalarial drug amodiaquine as a potent inhibitor of infection with SARS-CoV-2, ...
In a paper published this week in Nature Machine Intelligence, the researchers introduced REDIAL-2020, an open-source online suite of computational models that will help scientists rapidly screen small molecules for their potential COVID-fighting properties. A year ...
The Food Safety Information Council warned that good handwashing rather than using hand sanitiser was more effective in reducing the risk of catching the gastro causing norovirus. Cathy Moir, Council Chair, said not all viruses ...
Scientists are developing a completely new ‘brain stress test’ tool for evaluating the mental status of patients with Parkinson’s disease, the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease worldwide. It involves awakening the ‘ghosts’ hidden in specific ...
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