STI rates plunged by a third in England last year as people had less casual sex during Covid lockdowns, official data shows 317,901 people tested positive for an STI in 2020, down from 467,096 in 2019 Public Health England said drop is due to a ‘change in behaviour’ during Covid Officials warn people to be […]
The epidemiology of sports-related concussions (SRCs) and closed head injuries (CHIs) in high school females remains largely undefined at the national level, especially for unorganized sports and recreational activities such as equestrian and snow-related sports. A new study presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) took a closer […]
With a new school year three weeks away and cases of COVID-19 on the rise again, vaccination rates in the households of school-age children will play an important role in how school districts weigh their options for returning to the classroom. A new University of Michigan survey finds that only about one-third (34 percent) of […]
Cancer deaths were lower in the five states and District of Columbia that expanded Medicaid early-on as part of the Affordable Care Act, compared to states that did not expand the federal insurance, according to a study lead by Duke Cancer Institute. Publishing in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI), the researchers found […]
Over the last 10 years, melanoma skin cancer among men in the UK has increased by almost 50%. Though rates for women have risen by 30% during the same time period, skin cancer is more common in men. Men are also more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage than women, and skin cancers […]
(HealthDay)—Hand hygiene compliance rates exceeded 90 percent during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, but declined thereafter, according to a research letter published online April 26 in JAMA internal Medicine. Sonya Makhni, M.D., from the University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences Division, and colleagues describe changes in hand hygiene compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic […]
A large study of brain MRI scans from 11,679 nine- and ten-year-old children reviewed by UC San Francisco neuroradiologists identified potentially life-threatening conditions in 1 in 500 children, and more minor but possibly clinically significant brain abnormalities in 1 out of 25 children. The results provide the best estimates to date of the true incidence […]
Does higher income for family households lead to lower youth obesity rates? A new study by a Penn State researcher suggests the answer is no. Molly Martin, associate professor of sociology and demography, recently published the findings of her study in the Social Science & Medicine journal. According to the researchers, obesity rates are higher […]
The COVID-19 infection rate among pregnant women was estimated to be 70% higher than in similarly aged adults in Washington state, according to a new study published today in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Other key findings include: The study also showed that the number of COVID-19 infections in pregnant patients from nearly all […]
A new aggressive surgery approach by the UCD Gynecological Oncology Group has helped improve the survival rates for women with ovarian cancer in Ireland. A study, published in the Annals of Surgical Oncology Journal, showed how the use of multidisciplinary (MDT) surgical teams at the Mater and St Vincent’s University hospitals resulted in significantly improved […]
