News headlines often compress complex science into a simple storyline: If two things are happening at the same time, one must ...

Certain social determinants and psychological factors may elevate a person’s risk for new persistent opioid use after surgery, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.Enrollment in Medicaid ...

USDA’s Food Safety Under Secretary addresses allegations that the current U.S. meat inspection system needs to be reformed.

Older adults lose their ability to hear concrete sounds first, and with this loss come the more difficult aspects of hearing: the fuzzy edges of speech. As your hearing deteriorates, you are likely ...

A pair of Harvard-led studies released in recent months found that people living closer to operational nuclear power plants ...

A peer-reviewed study of 64,988 U.S. college students has drawn a sharp line between heavy social media use and loneliness, ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza A new study shows that gut microbiome signatures, analyzed through advanced machine learning, can help identify individuals with more severe insulin resistance, offering ...

Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the fossilized bones. But new research into some of dinosaurs' living relatives ...

The reduction in depression and anxiety symptoms 3 months after completing ten AMHSP sessions indicates a slow but meaningful benefit of the programme and supports the potential of a low-intensity, ...

A US study published in PLOS Medicine looks at air pollution as a risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease. Prof Matt Loxham, Professor of Respiratory Biology & Toxicology, University of Southampton, said: ...

Primary and secondary outcome measures Children’s mental health was assessed using the Mental Health Test; parental anxiety and depression were measured with the Generalised Anx ...