Text Messages After the ER Help Patients Quit Risky Habits, Trial Finds
A Hong Kong randomized controlled trial found that a brief phone-based intervention plus six months of WhatsApp or WeChat messages ...
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How GDPR Fails Indigenous Data: Sámi Scholars Offer a Fix
A new PLOS Medicine Perspective argues that the GDPR's individual-focused framework leaves collective Indigenous rights unprotected and shows how Sámi ...
Checkout Rules That Work: California City’s Healthy Register Policy Reshapes Snack Aisles
A natural experiment in Perris, California, shows a mandatory healthy checkout ordinance significantly increased compliant products near registers, though candy ...
HIV Self-Testing: A Decade of Delay Leaves Millions Unaware of Their Status
A new PLOS Medicine analysis argues that HIV self-testing was deployed at only about 3 percent of estimated need for ...
Your Wrist Knows How You Sleep—and It Predicts Which Diseases You May Face
A UK Biobank study of 95,559 adults used wrist accelerometers and a deep-learning algorithm to link real-world sleep stages and ...
Blood Test Trends Outperform Single Abnormalities in Flagging Hidden Cancer After Weight Loss
A large UK cohort study finds that tracking blood test trends over time, once adjusted for age and sex, discriminates ...
Rare Disease Patients Turn Lived Experience Into a Blueprint for Better Research
Two women living with the rare skin condition Congenital Melanocytic Naevus argue in PLOS Medicine that patient partnership must shape ...
Simple Health Check Program Linked to Lower Diabetes Risk in Older Adults
A Swedish population-based study found that a low-intensity health assessment and counseling program for 70-year-olds was associated with a 24 ...
Epidemics Drive Global Losses of Health Workers, Hitting Poorest Nations Hardest
A three-decade modeling study finds that epidemic disasters are associated with significant annual losses of health workers worldwide, with the ...
Viet Nam’s Private-Sector TB Bridge Added Thousands of Cases to National Notifications
A large quasi-experimental evaluation in Viet Nam found that an intermediary-facilitated public–private mix intervention was associated with roughly 3,206 additional ...
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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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