38+ min ago  (586+ words) Access to healthcare and insurance coverage strongly influence whether women take recommended amounts of folic acid to help prevent serious birth defects, according to University of California, Irvine researchers using the National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program…...

57+ min ago  (150+ words) Researchers found postoperative delirium was strongly associated with long-term cognitive decline and the effect was not explained by rehospitalizations, highlighting the long-term impact of delirium on brain health. Tammy T. Hshieh, MD MPH, first author, geriatrician, Division of Aging, Mass General…...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago  (228+ words) Funded by the Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking, a new "15. 3 million project coordinated by Institut Pasteur brings together seven partners across four continents to advance clinical trials and prepare for the manufacturing of a chikungunya vaccine in Africa. The project will…...

1+ hour, 44+ min ago  (366+ words) Mitch Kanter, Ph D, Principal, Mitch Kanter Health & Nutrition Insights and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, first author on the paper and primary organizer of the workshop For most of the 11 propositions examined, experts concluded that full acceptance was…...

4+ hour, 11+ min ago  (142+ words) Our aim was to adjust immunosuppression not only according to fixed drug levels, but to align it more closely with the patients' actual immunological status. The study shows that TTV-guided adjustment of the dose of the immunosuppressive drug tacrolimus was…...

4+ hour, 50+ min ago  (451+ words) Antibiotics continue to drive resistance to bacteria, even after they are broken down in wastewater treatment plants and discharged into rivers and seas, new research published on World Oceans Day has shown for the first time. When we take antibiotics,…...

4+ hour, 47+ min ago  (339+ words) A new study led by researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso found that use of weight loss drugs like Ozempic and other GLP-1s is associated with a lower risk of developing alcohol, opioid, nicotine and cocaine use…...

4+ hour, 36+ min ago  (269+ words) Children who spend more time playing outdoors between the ages of two and four may be less likely to develop emotional and behavioural difficulties later in childhood. That's according to new research led by the University of Exeter, published in…...

7+ hour, 47+ min ago  (402+ words) People with epilepsy living in rural America were more likely to die in hospital, arrive with severe seizures, and miss key diagnostic testing, highlighting persistent healthcare gaps that may be driven more by access to care than geography alone." A…...

9+ hour, 43+ min ago  (659+ words) One of the most complicated transitions in drug development is moving a molecule from discovery to candidate nomination and GMP manufacturing. The difference between smooth progression and costly delays is often determined not by science itself, but by how well…...