Lifetime Smoking Rivals Poverty in Eroding Quality of Life for Older Americans
A comprehensive lifetime smoking exposure index shows the quality-of-life burden of cigarette smoke in older US adults rivals that of ...
Tag: chronic disease
Decades-Old Smallpox Shots Leave Fading Immunity, With Chronic Illness Weakening the Shield
A large study of historically smallpox-vaccinated individuals finds residual but uneven immunity, with chronic disease and cancer linked to lower ...
Genes Linked to Smoking May Shape Health Even in People Who Never Smoked
A study of older Americans finds that genetic scores for smoking predict worse health even among people who never smoked, ...
Sickle Cell Anemia Drives Heaviest Burden Among Hospitalized Children in Angola
A retrospective study at a Luanda tertiary hospital found sickle cell anemia was the leading chronic disease among hospitalized children, ...
Hibernating Squirrels Hold Clues to Diabetes and Muscle Loss in New NIH-Funded Study
Monell Center investigator Neeraj Lal has received a $3.8 million NIH Director's New Innovator Award to study how Arctic ground ...
Colorado Bets $4.9 Million on Rural Pharmacies to Close Its Widening Healthcare Gap
A $4.94 million first-year federal award launches Colorado STREAM, a five-year, nearly $25 million initiative connecting rural pharmacies with treatment ...
Believing You Control Your Health May Shape How Well People Manage Diabetes
A new cross-sectional study of 413 adults with diabetes in Riyadh finds that internal and chance health locus of control ...
Women With High Blood Pressure Face Twice the Odds of Suicidal Thoughts, Three-Country Study Finds
A pooled analysis of WHO STEPS survey data from Malawi, Zambia, and Cabo Verde finds that hypertensive women report roughly ...
Beyond the Injection: Why GLP-1 Drugs Alone Cannot Fix Obesity
A new JAMA Perspective argues that GLP-1 therapies must be embedded in multimodal obesity care combining screening, early management, and ...
When Health Advice Doesn’t Land: Low Health Literacy Undermines Hypertension Self-Care
A qualitative study in Vietnam finds that people with hypertension and low health literacy struggle to engage with self-management education, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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