Japanese Activity Questionnaire Passes Its Biggest Test Against Wearable Sensors
A validation study of 266 Japanese adults found that the WHO's Global Physical Activity Questionnaire shows weak to moderate accuracy ...
Tag: public health surveillance
Electronic Health Records Reveal Heat Wave Toll in Near-Real Time
A new Nature Health study shows that electronic health records can quantify heat wave emergency department impacts within days, enabling ...
AI Scans Chinese Social Media to Reveal Hidden Eating Disorder Struggles
Researchers trained a convolutional neural network to detect and characterize eating disorder discourse on Weibo, uncovering five major themes in ...
Beyond the Cane Fields: Kidney Disease in Nicaragua Strikes Adolescents and Young Women Too
A new Boston University study finds that kidney disease risk in Nicaragua extends beyond heat-exposed male sugarcane workers to adolescents ...
Hepatitis E Clusters in Shanghai Map to Dense Urban Neighborhoods Near Rivers
A six-year surveillance study of 4,668 hepatitis E cases in Shanghai identified significant spatial-temporal clusters concentrated in dense, commercially active ...
Sierra Leone finds outbreak response, not detection, is where precious days are lost
A national analysis of 33 public health events in Sierra Leone shows that while detection and notification mostly met the ...
HIV Testing at Japan’s Public Health Centers May Not Prevent Late AIDS Diagnoses, Study Finds
A nationwide prefecture-level study found that the apparent link between public-health-center HIV screening and fewer AIDS-stage diagnoses in Japan largely ...
Congenital Syphilis in England: A Decade of Preventable Stillbirths and Missed Diagnoses
A decade of national surveillance in England reveals that congenital syphilis continues to cause stillbirths and neonatal deaths despite near-universal ...
Delphy Brings Near-Real-Time Bayesian Phylogenetics to Outbreak Response
A new Nature study presents Delphy, a GPU-accelerated Bayesian phylogenetics platform that delivers dated, uncertainty-aware viral trees from outbreak-scale datasets ...
Not All TCBS Agar Is Equal: Study Reveals Hidden Variability in Cholera and Vibrio Detection
A systematic comparison of seven commercial TCBS agar formulations reveals significant variability in the recovery of Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio ...
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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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