Archive: 06/10/2016

Global Burden of Disease study 2015 assesses the state of the world's health

Today, The Lancet publishes the most up-to-date analysis on the state of the world's health to equip governments and donors with evidence to identify national health challenges and priorities for intervention. This massive ...

Oct 6, 2016

What Twitter behavior accompanies mental health crises?

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association indicates that there were two specific types of heightened Twitter discussions in 2014 related to mental health: expected increases in response ...

Oct 6, 2016

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The science, drugs and tech pushing our brains to new limits

A recent explosion of neuroscience techniques is driving substantial advances in our understanding of the brain. Combined with developments in engineering, machine learning and computing this flowering has helped us enhance ...

Oct 6, 2016

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Kind and sensitive caregiving in children's residential facilities is important for emotional and mental health

Nurturing caregiving from a few consistent individuals helps to minimize the potential emotional and mental-health development issues that can arise from spending the early years of a child's life in an institution. Within ...

Oct 6, 2016

Improving participation in cancer screening should be a priority

Early diagnosis of cancer is linked to better survival rates. Unfortunately, participation rates for cancer screening worldwide are low even when screening programmes are free. The ESMO 2016 Congress is showcasing five studies ...

Oct 6, 2016

More than 10% of the US population has high concentrations of 10 or more persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

A study led by researchers at the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has analysed the number of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) detected at high concentrations ...

Oct 6, 2016