Burnt out and fed up: when hard work backfires
A record number of New Zealanders are experiencing burnout, with a combination of job insecurity, tight economic times…
Skin symptoms may forewarn mental health risks
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists have discovered that mental health patients who have skin conditions may be more…
Living in an unequal society impacts the structure of children’s brains, study finds
Alterations in the thickness of the cortex in several regions of the brain—darker colors indicate a greater reduction…
GLP-1 drugs may delay alcohol’s effects in the bloodstream
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC researchers found that after a cocktail, participants in a small, pilot study…
Fish oil supplements may not work for certain cancer patients
Credit: Justine Ross, Michigan Medicine About 19 million American adults consume dietary fish oil supplements. These supplements, which…
What supplement labels say, versus what consumers think they mean
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Consumers read common supplement label phrases as promises of disease prevention or treatment, according…
Individuals with these two genetic conditions are seeing increased, but unequal, life expectancies
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research from the Arnold School’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics has found disparities…
Childhood stress strongly linked to chronic disease in adulthood, researchers report
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Research published by Duke University researchers has found a strong link between higher stress…
Govt recognises opioid danger to our elderly
Comment: Opioids often make headlines usually for the wrong reasons, linked to words such as epidemic, addiction, dependence,…
The algorithm will see you now—but only if you’re the perfect patient
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the morning, before you even open your eyes, your wearable device has already…
How quickly mRNA degrades is linked to autoimmune disease risk
Experimental support for asRS variants. Schematic illustration of MapUTR design. Credit: Nature Genetics (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02326-8 A pizza shop…
Extensive sequencing study finds few links between cancer and microbiome
DNA, which has a double-helix structure, can have many genetic mutations and variations. Credit: NIH About a dozen…