Aspirin May Help Protect the Brain From Pollution’s Toll, Study Suggests

Long-term exposure to air pollution has many health consequences, including accelerating brain aging and increasing the risk for dementia. Now new research suggests that short-term exposure to polluted air, even at levels generally considered “acceptable,” may impair mental ability in the elderly. Scientists studied 954 men, average age 69, living in the greater Boston area.…

Civil commitment for substance use disorder treatment — what do addiction medicine specialists think?

May 17, 2021 – Amid the rising toll of opioid overdoses and deaths in the U.S., several states are considering laws enabling civil commitment for involuntary treatment of patients with substance use disorders (SUDs). Most addiction medicine physicians support civil commitment for SUD treatment – but others strongly oppose this approach, reports a survey study…

Alemi & Roess receive funding for project on digital health solutions for COVID-19

Alemi & Roess Receive Funding For Project On Digital Health Solutions For COVID-19 Farrokh Alemi, Professor, Health Administration and Policy, and Amira Roess, Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, are evaluating the effectiveness of at-home testing with symptom screening to demonstrate that symptom screening with a predictive algorithm combined with at-home testing is more effective…

CSHL Press begins 2021 with new and expanded transformational publishing agreements

17 May 2021 – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, a nonprofit publisher of leading research journals in molecular biology, genetics, and related fields, is pleased to announce its first set of transformational publishing agreements, effective from January 1, 2021. “A sustainable path to open publication of biomedical research is a long-sought objective at Cold Spring…