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New research from Case Western Reserve University examined the impact of virtual training on the mental-health and suicide-prevention skills of more than 33,000 middle-school educators. The researchers found, overwhelmingly, that those who completed the training had 'higher levels of preparedness' in identifying suicide warning signs than participants at the pre-test evaluation.

More isn't always better. That's what researchers say when it comes to transparency in the US healthcare system. This research, forthcoming in the INFORMS journal Operations Research, finds that in the short-term, patients who know more about hospital quality is positive, but in the long-term, the benefits may not be what you might think.

The authors urge consumer researchers to break their self-imposed boundaries in order to broaden their impact, lest they become irrelevant to non-academic marketing stakeholders and cede influence to non-marketing academic disciplines.

Children who participated in a citizen science project called MammalWeb, where they used camera traps to detect wildlife visiting their schools, were able to identify twice the number of UK mammals by the end of the project. The preliminary results are presented today at the British Ecological Society's annual meeting in Belfast.

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) & the Central Food Technological Research Institute in India are studying the effect of probiotic yeast in preventing fungal infections.

Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, Ph.D., Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has discovered unique patterns of genetic activity that may lead to the development of blinding retinal diseases.

ISGlobal team studies the role of five different lifestyle habits in the development of childhood overweight and obesity

A new study found that water births are no more risky than land births, and that women in the water group sustain fewer first and second-degree tears.

They work in a bubble of 80-hour work weeks, and 24-hour shifts. The constant stress wears on their mental health. But for first-year doctors who started their careers in the past few years, a new study shows that certain political events pierced that bubble of intense training. In fact, some political events affected their mood just as much as the intense first weeks of their training had.