Electronic nudge letters do not improve guideline-directed medical therapy in CKD

Doctors' decisions to prescribe antibiotics are strongly influenced by their own use of and attitudes toward antibiotics—and even more so by their beliefs about their peers' behavior. A new study published in Kyklos shows that Swedish doctors who perceive their colleagues as being restrictive about antibiotic prescriptions are more likely to refrain from prescribing the medication themselves.

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that chronic exposure to artificial light at night (LAN) can trigger depression-like behaviors by activating a specific neural pathway in the brain.

Many people with mental health or substance use disorders experience stigma and perceived biases when seeking medical care—not directly related to their mental health—in a hospital emergency department (ED/ER), according to research by the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Digital inhalers may help predict impending acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a new study published in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation.

In 2023, 48 states and the District of Columbia reported 2,770 human arboviral disease cases, with West Nile Virus (WNV) being the most common, according to research published in the June 12 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Following the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022) decision, 42% of surveyed clinicians who provided abortions in states banning abortion relocated to another state, almost all to states not banning abortion, according to a research letter published online June 11 in JAMA Network Open.

A research team led by Prof. Li Hai from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a new computational model that can accurately predict lung motion caused by breathing, offering safer and more precise options for lung biopsies and radiotherapy. The findings were published in Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics.

You wouldn't microwave fish around your worst enemy—the smell lingers both in kitchen and memory. It is one few of us like, let alone have positive associations with. But what makes our brains decide a smell is stinky?

AI is making its way into women's health in unusual ways, from a sanitary napkin that can predict ovarian cancer to an algorithm trained to detect patterns of endometriosis years before traditional diagnostic methods.

Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have helped uncover how ticks mount a defense against a deadly virus increasingly found in parts of East Asia, a discovery that could help disrupt disease transmission.

A highly cited trial from 2007 used by international health agencies to support the use of medication for adolescents with depression has been critically reviewed by a team from the University of Adelaide.

Antimicrobial resistance is still spreading in the environment despite a reduction in the amounts of antibiotic drugs prescribed, according to a new study led by the University of Bath. Researchers warn that multiple approaches will be required to tackle the increasing threat of antimicrobial resistance to public health.

Diabetes during pregnancy—whether pre-existing or gestational—may lead to increased fat accumulation around the fetal heart, according to a new meta-analysis published in Biomolecules and Biomedicine. The findings suggest a possible early marker for future cardiometabolic disorders in children born to mothers with diabetes.

There may be hopeful news ahead for families with a history of breast and ovarian cancer.

A new ICES study has found that 1.74 million patients in Ontario are attached to family physicians aged 65 or older, and that many of those patients are elderly and have complex medical needs.

Six out of 10 people with type 2 diabetes had fatty liver in a new study from Linköping University. Of these, only a small percentage had developed more severe liver disease.

A new Concordia study suggests that aquatic therapy for individuals with chronic low back pain can do more than strengthen the muscles around the spine. It can also have a beneficial impact on the negative psychological factors that are often associated with the disabling disease.

The kidney, a critical organ for waste filtration and fluid regulation, is the subject of a molecular mapping project that could reshape our understanding of renal health. Despite advances in transcriptomics and proteomics, lipids—key structural and signaling molecules—have remained relatively unexplored in the context of kidney function.