Mifepristone: US Supreme Court rejects ban on abortion drug
The US Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a case to restrict access to the abortion…
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Increasing prevalence of type 1 diabetes in older age may be a good sign
The increasing burden of a chronic disease is usually a bad sign for both health…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about abortion pill access, employer coverage of GLP-1 drugs and more
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
Low-sodium alternatives can lead to major health gains in Indonesia
Excess sodium intake and a lack of potassium are major contributing factors towards high blood…
AI can help doctors make better decisions and save lives
A recent study found that hospitalized patients were 43 percent more likely to have their…
Does exercise in greenspace boost the individual health benefits of each?
Research suggests exercising in a park or other natural setting is more beneficial than exercising…
New insights into the brain regions involved in paranoia
The capacity to adjust beliefs about one’s actions and their consequences in a constantly changing…
Sweaty cattle may boost food security in a warming world
Climate change is making it more difficult to raise cattle — growth and reproduction are…
Making ferromagnets ready for ultra-fast communication and computation technology
Researchers have made a significant breakthrough in how to enable and exploit ultra-fast spin behavior…
Lab achieves major gains in perovskite solar cell stability
Researchers have developed new chemistry to achieve commercially relevant stability and performance for perovskite solar…
“I wasn’t alone after all”—how modelling vulnerability can support staff wellbeing
I was a couple of months into my paediatric training when I experienced the death…
Disclosure programmes in the US—an inadequate response to medical error
It’s widely accepted that communicating openly with patients after a medical error is a moral…
Gordon Angus Clark
bmj;385/jun14_6/q1311/FAF1faAngus was a Broomhill man through and through. It was here that he was born,…
Malcolm Ian Mitchell
bmj;385/jun14_5/q1304/FAF1faMalcolm Ian Mitchell graduated from Newcastle University in 1972 where he met his wife Lynne,…
Kylasa Somasundaram
bmj;385/jun14_4/q1302/FAF1faKylasa Somasundaram was born on 27 October 1933. He graduated from the University of Ceylon…
Anne Johnstone Fingland
bmj;385/jun14_3/q1308/FAF1faAfter graduating Anne undertook house jobs in Durham followed by GP training in the north…
Bryan Lawrence Whitty
bmj;385/jun14_2/q1310/FAF1faBryan was born on 28 March 1940 in the West End of Glasgow. He was…
Michael G Dash
bmj;385/jun14_1/q1306/FAF1faMichael Dash, a highly respected general practitioner, died peacefully at North Devon District Hospital in…
As whooping cough rates rise, we urgently need to increase maternal vaccination rates
The UK is experiencing a sharp increase in rates of whooping cough (pertussis), with confirmed…
Sixty seconds on . . . bad acronyms
BRB (Be right back . . .)Hear me out. Researchers have developed computer software that…
A severe case of bags under the eyes
This woman in her 70s presented with a 20 year history of progressive bilateral palpebral…
Statins, blood glucose, . . . and other stories
Statins and diabetesA meta-analysis by the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists’ Collaboration using individual level data from…
Shortness of breath after in vitro fertilisation
A woman in her 30s presented to the emergency department with a three day history…
Is it time to stop PSA testing? … and other research
Back to the drawing board on prostate cancer screeningProstate cancer screening is currently based on…
Prenatal family income, but not parental education, is associated with resting brain activity in 1-month-old infants … – Nature.com
Prenatal family income, but not parental education, is associated with resting brain activity in 1-month-old…
New fabric makes urban heat islands more bearable
Researchers detail a new wearable fabric that can help urban residents survive the worst impacts…
A conservation market could incentivize global ocean protection
Thirty-by-thirty: protect 30% of the planet by 2030. While conservation is popular in principle, the…
Can engineered plants help make baby formula as nutritious as breast milk?
New research may help close the nutrition gap between infant formula and human breast milk….
Are mixed emotions real? New research says yes
Neuroscientists found that brains display distinct neural activity when experiencing emotions such as bitter-sweetness. The…
The rotation of Earth’s inner core has slowed, new study confirms
The new study provides unambiguous evidence that the inner core began to decrease its speed…
Only one in 20 therapies tested in animals reach approval for human use
An analysis of reviews of translational biomedical research reveals that just 5% of therapies tested…
Paleontology: New fossil fish genus discovered
Paleontologists have identified a new genus of fossil goby, revealing evolutionary secrets of a lineage…
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Short-term loneliness associated with physical health problems
Loneliness may be harmful to our daily health, according to a new study focused on…
Mysterious mini-Neptunes
This study discovered mini-Neptunes around four red dwarfs using observations from a global network of…
6,000 years ago, men and women had equal access to resources
Using isotope geochemistry, scientists have uncovered new information about the Barmaz necropolis in Valais (Switzerland):…
Ancient ocean slowdown warns of future climate chaos
When it comes to the ocean’s response to global warming, we’re not in entirely uncharted…
Younger workers feel stressed, lonely and undervalued
Younger workers are struggling with feelings of loneliness and a lack of appreciation at work…
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New way to spot beetle-killed spruce can help forest, wildfire managers
A new machine-learning system can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations…
Pacific coast gray whales have gotten 13% shorter in the past 20-30 years, Oregon State study finds
Gray whales that spend their summers feeding in the shallow waters off the Pacific Northwest…
Western agricultural communities need water conservation strategies to adapt to future shortages
The Western U.S. is heavily reliant on mountain snowpacks and their gradual melt for water…
Does having a child with low birth weight increase a person’s risk of dementia?
People who give birth to infants less than 5.5 pounds may be more likely to…
Depressive symptoms in young adults linked to thinking, memory problems in midlife
People who experience prolonged depressive symptoms starting in young adulthood may have worse thinking and…
Exposure to heat and cold in early life may affect development of white matter in the brain
Brain scans of more than 2,000 preadolescents suggests that early life exposure to heat and…
NASA’s Roman mission gets cosmic ‘sneak peek’ from supercomputers
Researchers used supercomputers to create nearly 4 million simulated images depicting the cosmos. Read Original…
Swimming microrobots deliver cancer-fighting drugs to metastatic lung tumors in mice
Engineers have developed microscopic robots, known as microrobots, capable of swimming through the lungs to…
Mobile monitoring for an airborne carcinogen in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
Louisiana’s southeastern corridor is sometimes known colloquially as ‘Cancer Alley’ for its high cancer incidence…
Senators slam the FDA’s new vape enforcement plan: ‘What in the hell have you been waiting for?’
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Justice claim they’re getting…
What the geologic record reveals about how oceans were oxygenated 2.3 billion years ago
Geochemists used thallium isotopes to track the rise and fall of free oxygen on Earth…
No bones about it: 100-million-year-old bones reveal new species of pterosaur
New research has identified 100-million-year-old fossilized bones discovered in western Queensland as belonging to a…
AI-powered simulation training improves human performance in robotic exoskeletons
Researchers have demonstrated a new method that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and computer simulations to…