Background Socioeconomic exposures related to anaemia in Peruvian children have been modelled assuming additive or log-additive relationships, yet such approaches overlook the fact that illness ...

Using longitudinal data on more than 370 000 older Japanese adults, we found that living in constituencies represented by pro-tobacco legislators was associated with higher smoking prevalence. The ...

US-wide study of 2000–2018 data estimates 115,000 excess cancer deaths. The study is the first in the 21st century to assess ...

A few glasses of alcohol are enough to start fragmenting the way the brain works, leading to more localized information processing and reduced brain-wide communication, a new study has discovered.

Heat stress is widely recognized as a critical risk factor in livestock systems. Rising temperatures and humidity levels can ...

Patient-reported outcome measures and clinical scales were ineffective in predicting responses to full-agonist opioids for chronic pain.

A new study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology showed that macrolide treatment probably improves ...

Radiation therapy is a cornerstone of lung cancer treatment. But even when delivered with precision, radiation can damage healthy lung tissue. "Try as we might, when we deliver radiation to a cancer, ...

AI & Society, states that algorithmic systems often construct competing but equally valid “model-worlds,” offering empirical support for a philosophical claim that evidence alone cannot uniquely ...

USA: A large meta-analysis published in Alzheimer's & Dementia has found that elevated tau accumulation in the temporal lobes predicts more rapid cognitive decline in women than in men, highlighting ...