IMAGE: Researchers analyzed almost 30,000 RT-PCR tests on swabs from 4,269 players in 2020: 11.7% turned out positive. The rate was the same as among front-line health workers… view more Credit: Bruno Gualano By Karina Toledo | Agência FAPESP* – A study conducted at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil shows that the incidence…
DetailsIMAGE: Millions of Americans lack adequate access to healthy food. Expanding SNAP benefits and eligibility could eliminate food insecurity in the United States, suggests University of Illinois professor Craig Gundersen. view more Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. – Food insecurity is a major problem in the U.S., and it worsened during the…
DetailsIMAGE: Choroid plexus of mouse neonates. Blue: cell nuclei, green: phalloidin-actin, red: fluorochrome. view more Credit: Biology of Infection Unit, Institut Pasteur Meningitis is associated with high mortality and frequently causes severe sequelae. Newborn infants are particularly susceptible to this type of infection; they develop meningitis 30 times more often than the general population. Group B…
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The Delta variant was detected for the first time in India in October 2020 and has since spread throughout the world. It is now dominant in many countries and regions (India, the UK, Portugal, Russia, etc.) and is predicted to be the most prevalent variant in Europe within weeks or months. Epidemiological studies have shown…
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A survey offered to transgender and nonbinary people across six continents and in thirteen languages shows that during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, many faced reduced access to gender-affirming resources, and this reduction was linked to poorer mental health. Brooke Jarrett of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, and…
DetailsIMAGE: Artistic rendering of dying cells protecting their neighbors to maintain tissue integrity. Holes in epithelium created by uncoordinated cell death are shown in purple. view more Credit: © Institut Pasteur / Le?o Valon et Romain Levayer To enable tissue renewal, human tissues constantly eliminate millions of cells, without jeopardizing tissue integrity, form and connectivity. The…
DetailsIMAGE: multi-institution team led by University of Arizona electrical and computer engineering professor Janet Roveda is building a future in which wearable devices will allow clinicians to gather patient data remotely… view more Credit: University of Arizona The last two decades have seen an uptick in people choosing to monitor their health using wearable technologies such…
DetailsIMAGE: Conceptual model depicting the relationship between policing and population health. view more Credit: University of Washington A specific police action, an arrest or a shooting, has an immediate and direct effect on the individuals involved, but how far and wide do the reverberations of that action spread through the community? What are the health consequences…
DetailsIMAGE: Using brain scans from children across the United States, researchers developed normalized growth charts for how healthy brains should grow during the first 18 years of life. Image: view more Credit: humonia/Image compilation: College of Engineering In the United States, nearly every pediatric doctor’s visit begins with three measurements: weight, height and head circumference. Compared…
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Growth impairment, a common complication of Crohn’s disease in children, occurs more often in males than females, but the reasons are unclear. Now, a physician-scientist from Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian and colleagues at eight other centers have found that factors associated with statural growth differ by sex. Their recent publication, identified as the “Editor’s…
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