Handbasins help prevent infections in hospitals but new research from Flinders University warns that contaminated basins in health care might put patients at risk and have implications for outbreaks of superbugs.
Oct 22, 2026
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Nearly one in five young adults in the United States reported feeling anxious every day in 2024, up from 15% in 2020. Over the same period, the odds of receiving an anxiety diagnosis as well as use of prescription anxiety ...
Oct 22, 2026
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Patients who depend on long-term intravenous catheters for chemotherapy, hemodialysis, intravenous nutrition and other essential therapies face an ongoing risk of catheter-related bloodstream infections, a potentially life-threatening ...
Oct 22, 2026
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Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are known to increase the risk of substance use problems later in life. New research from George Mason University's College of Public Health suggests that the specific types of adversity ...
Oct 22, 2026
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Stomach pain and other gastrointestinal complaints are common among children and adolescents. When symptoms recur over a long period, the cause may be a form of DGBI (disorders of gut-brain interaction), in which communication ...
Oct 22, 2026
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Admission to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) can have lasting psychological effects on both children receiving treatment and their parents. To investigate the effects of psychosocial interventions on parents' emotional ...
Oct 22, 2026
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Fitting a hormonal intrauterine device (IUD) during surgery to help manage heavy menstrual bleeding reduces a woman's risk of needing a hysterectomy in the following two years by more than half, according to a new open-label ...
Oct 22, 2026
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For a long time, the Pap smear has been a lifesaving screening tool for cervical cancer.
Oct 22, 2026
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Researchers from the University of California San Diego have found that adding emotion management skills to family-based behavioral weight management may help adolescents maintain weight loss after treatment ends.
Oct 22, 2026
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Devices that link human minds to computers are progressing rapidly. Already, these brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are allowing patients with severe paralysis to communicate, use digital devices or control smart homes with ...
Oct 22, 2026
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