For Kids With Sickle Cell Disease Prescribed Opioids, No Patterns of Misuse Emerged
No patterns of long-term or increasing use of opioids were identified within 3 years among opioid-naive children with sickle cell disease (SCD) who were prescribed the drugs for an acute pain episode, according to a retrospective cohort study. In the cohort of 725 children, mean days’ supply of opioids over 3 years was 30, despite […]
Experts Warn of the Extreme Public Health Threats From Heat
As record-breaking heat waves from climate change transform weather patterns and ecosystems, healthcare will also need to shift to contend with these new realities. During SciLine’s “Extreme Heat Update” presentation for media, experts highlighted the current hotspots for extreme, human-caused heat changes and their health implications. Andrew Pershing, PhD, vice president for science at Climate […]
Irregular sleep patterns associated with harmful gut bacteria
New research has found irregular sleep patterns are associated with harmful bacteria in your gut. The study, published today in The European Journal of Nutrition, by researchers from King’s College London and ZOE, the personalised nutrition company, is the first to find multiple associations between social jet lag — the shift in your internal body […]
Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk Varies by Molecular Subtype
Different molecular subtypes of breast cancer had varying rates and patterns of recurrence following surgery for early-stage disease, a large retrospective cohort study showed. Overall, the 10-year freedom from ipsilateral, regional, and contralateral recurrence was 95.9%, 96.1%, and 96.5%, respectively. Using hormone receptor (HR)-positive (+)/HER2-negative (-) tumors as the reference, HR-/HER2+ breast cancer had the […]
Can Functional MRI Read Your Mind?
An individually trained semantic decoder translated brain patterns on functional MRI (fMRI) into continuous streams of text, a small study showed. The customized decoder used fMRI responses to generate text describing an individual’s imagined stories, the contents of podcasts they listened to, and silent videos they watched, reported Alexander Huth, PhD, of the University of […]
Lousy Sleep Compounds Genetic Risk for Asthma in Adults
Poor sleep patterns and high genetic susceptibility together doubled the risk of asthma development in adults, a prospective study using U.K. Biobank data found. Individuals in the study who had the highest polygenic risk score (PRS) or were poor sleepers had a 47-55% higher risk for asthma over a median 8 years of follow-up compared […]
Autopsies Show Relationship Between Alzheimer’s Pathology and Diet in Older Adults
Healthy, plant-based dietary patterns were linked with less postmortem Alzheimer’s disease pathology, primarily beta-amyloid load, in older adults. Both MIND diet scores (β -0.022, P=0.035; standardized beta -2.0) and Mediterranean diet scores (β -0.007, P=0.039; standardized beta -2.3) were significantly associated with lower global Alzheimer’s pathology, reported Puja Agarwal, PhD, of Rush University in Chicago, […]
Emotional patterns a factor in children’s food choices
The emotional context in which eating occurs has been thought to influence eating patterns and diet, with studies finding negative emotions predict excessive calorie intake and poor diet quality. A research article featured in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, published by Elsevier, discusses how children’s unhealthy food choices, especially over weekends, are related […]
Will climate change increase the risk of aflatoxin in U.S. corn?
As climate change continues to alter weather patterns around the planet including the Midwest, researchers at Michigan State University are modeling the impact on crops such as corn. “The United States is the largest exporter and donor of field corn around the world,” said Felicia Wu, a John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor and an international […]
What Is the Purpose of Psychoanalysis? Goals & Uses
Psychoanalysis aims to promote awareness of unconscious patterns of emotion and behavior to help a person address the root causes of their issues Psychoanalysis aims to promote awareness of unconscious and recurrent patterns of emotion and behavior in order to help a person address the root causes of their psychological issues. By releasing repressed thoughts […]