Experts highlight the impact of unregulated health and AI apps for substance use reduction
Jon-Patrick Allem, a member of the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies, an associate professor at the Rutgers School…
New model uses social media patterns to predict disease outbreaks
Vaccination rates are falling in many communities due to widespread misinformation and previously eliminated or controlled illnesses like…
Relationships among mediterranean diet adherence, sustainable food literacy, and depression in healthcare professionals | BMC Health Services Research
Comparisons of participants’ Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS) scores, sustainable food literacy subdimensions (knowledge I and II, food…
Countries used to test drugs often don’t see the approved medicines, study finds
Numerous medicines are not accessible in many of the countries where they were tested before approval by the…
Sports gambling is a public health crisis for young men
When the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on sports betting in 2018, Americans legally wagered less…
Genome sequencing for prevention of health-care-associated bacterial infections
WHO Team Infection Prevention and Control (IPC). Global report on infection prevention and control. WHO https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240051164 (2022). Warren,…
Breakthroughs in theranostic nanomaterials for traumatic brain injury management
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains one of the most pressing public health challenges, leaving millions with lasting disabilities…
Not protecting children from preventable disease violates their rights
We are doctors who trained continents apart: one of us in Sweden (Peterson) and one in India (Pai).…
The 90th anniversary of Angiostrongylus cantonensis: from local discovery to global endemic | Infectious Diseases of Poverty
China’s history with A. cantonensis serves as a powerful microcosm of the global challenge posed by this emerging…
The 24, 2 hours initiative: a game changer in malaria mortality reduction | Malaria Journal
The Global Technical Strategy for Malaria calls for at least a 75% reduction by 2025 compared with 2015…
Awareness of gestational diabetes mellitus among pregnant women in the Mopani district of Limpopo Province in South Africa: a quantitative study | BMC Public Health
Participants socio-demographics Of the 386 pregnant women who agreed to participate in the study, most (79%) of the…
Midlife blood test may reveal Alzheimer’s disease risk in advance
A simple blood test for platelet activity at middle age could one day help identify people at risk…