News by Subject Medicine & Health

Public Release: 14-Dec-2018

NIH scientists find that breast cancer protection from pregnancy starts decades later

NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

In general, women who have had children have a lower risk of breast cancer compared to women who have never given birth. However, new research has found that moms don't experience this breast cancer protection until many years later and may face elevated risk for more than 20 years after their last pregnancy.

Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH/National Cancer Institute, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

Public Release: 13-Dec-2018

Megacity traffic soot contributes to global warming

Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)

Soot from road traffic in emerging countries can reach high altitudes, where it can be transported over long distances and thus contributes to global warming. The reduction of pollutants from road traffic such as soot particles from diesel cars should therefore have high priority in order to both protect the health of the population in the growing conurbations of emerging countries and reduce global warming, wrote a an international research team in Atmospheric Environment.

Journal: Atmospheric Environment
Funder: European Union within the framework of the H2020 programme, German Federal Environment Agency, IRD France, Swedish Funding Agency FORMAS, Swedish Funding Agency STINT

Public Release: 13-Dec-2018

The parable of universal health cover for people on the move

University of the Witwatersrand

Research published in The Lancet on December 5 revealed that harmful and unfounded myths about migration and health have become accepted and that these are used to justify policies of exclusion.

Journal: Lancet
Meeting: UN Intergovernmental Conference to adopt the Global Compact
Funder: Wellcome Trust, Rockefeller Foundation, UK National Institute for Health Research, University College London Grand Challenges in Global Health, Health Programme of the European Union

Public Release: 13-Dec-2018

An energy-efficient way to stay warm: Sew high-tech heating patches to your clothes

Rutgers University

What if, instead of turning up the thermostat, you could warm up with high-tech, flexible patches sewn into your clothes -- while significantly reducing your electric bill and carbon footprint? Engineers at Rutgers and Oregon State University have found a cost-effective way to make thin, durable heating patches by using intense pulses of light to fuse tiny silver wires with polyester. Their heating performance is nearly 70 percent higher than similar patches created by other researchers, according to a study in Scientific Reports.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: National Science Foundation, Walmart US Manufacturing Innovation Fund, Defense Acquisition Program Administration and Agency for Defense Development

Public Release: 13-Dec-2018

Scientists create most accurate tool yet developed to predict asthma in young children

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have created and tested a decision tool that appears to be the most accurate, non-invasive method yet developed to predict asthma in young children.

Journal: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Funder: National Institutes of Health

Public Release: 12-Dec-2018

Pesticide exposure raises risk for cardiovascular disease among Latino workers

University of Illinois at Chicago

Latinos who are exposed to pesticides in their workplaces are twice as likely to have cardiovascular disease compared with Latinos who are not exposed to pesticides at work, according to a new study published in the journal Heart.

Journal: Heart
Funder: NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Public Release: 12-Dec-2018

Buzz! Slap! Ow! Taking the virus out of a mosquito's bite

University of Missouri-Columbia

They approach with the telltale sign -- a high-pitched whine. It's a warning that you are a mosquito's next meal. But that mosquito might carry a virus, and now the virus is in you. Now, with the help of state-of-the-art technology, researchers at the University of Missouri can see how a virus moves within a mosquito's body, which could lead to the prevention of mosquitoes transmitting diseases.

Journal: Viruses

Public Release: 12-Dec-2018

DNA study shows stethoscopes loaded with bacteria, including staphylococcus

Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

Stethoscopes carried by health care practitioners are loaded with diverse bacteria, including some that can cause healthcare-associated infections, according to a study published today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. The research also reviewed the effectiveness of cleaning methods, finding a standardized approach to be superior for removing bacteria compared with various approaches employed by health care practitioners.

Journal: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Public Release: 12-Dec-2018

Excess body weight responsible for nearly 4 percent of cancers worldwide

American Cancer Society

Excess body weight accounted for approximately 3.9 percent of all cancers worldwide in 2012, a figure that is expected to rise in the coming decades given current trends.

Journal: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Public Release: 11-Dec-2018

Pregnant women, young children most likely to use bed nets to prevent malaria

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

When households in sub-Saharan Africa don't have an adequate number of insecticide-treated bed nets, pregnant women and children under five are the most likely family members to sleep under the ones they have, leaving men and school-aged children more exposed to malaria, new Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) research suggests.

Journal: Malaria Journal

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