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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 29-Apr-2025 06:08 ET (29-Apr-2025 10:08 GMT/UTC)

Exposure to stress during early pregnancy affects offspring into adulthood

Deutsches Primatenzentrum (DPZ)/German Primate Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Maternal stress hormone levels during early pregnancy can have a lasting effect on the stress system of the offspring. The results of a long-term study on wild Assamese macaques in Thailand indicate that maternal stress in the first half of pregnancy is particularly relevant. Elevated stress hormones later during pregnancy or after birth did not have the same effects. The long-term study conducted by the University of Göttingen and the German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research provides important insights into the influence of early life stages on the development of the stress system under natural environmental conditions.

Survey: While most Americans use a device to monitor their heart, few share that data with their doctor

Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Reports and Proceedings

A new national survey commissioned by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center found that while many Americans use a device to monitor their heart, few share that data with their doctor.

Enhancing patient activation: A controlled implementation study of an interprofessional evidence-based counseling program for complementary and integrative healthcare in cancer patients ('CCC-Integrativ')

Higher Education Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Complementary and integrative healthcare (CIH) is a significant aspect of cancer care, with many patients seeking these approaches to manage symptoms and side effects of treatment. A controlled implementation study, titled 'CCC-Integrativ', was conducted to evaluate the effects of an interprofessional evidence-based counseling program for CIH in enhancing patient activation among cancer patients. The study was a prospective controlled non-randomized implementation study with a focus on the micro-, meso-, and macro-level outcomes, accompanied by a mixed-methods process evaluation and health economic analysis. The primary objective was to assess the impact of the program on patient activation, measured by the Patient Activation Measure questionnaire (PAM-13) at baseline, post-intervention, and at a 6-month follow-up.

Journal: Frontiers of Medicine

Here’s what’s causing the Great Salt Lake to shrink, according to PSU study

Portland State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, reached historic low levels in 2022, raising economic, ecological and public health concerns for Utah. New research from Portland State is believed to be the first peer-reviewed study that quantifies the contributing factors to the record low water volume levels, which the researchers say is important for anticipating and managing future lake changes.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

Recommendations for studying the impact of AI on young people's mental health  proposed by Oxford researchers

University of Oxford
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new peer-reviewed paper from experts at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, highlights the need for a clear framework when it comes to AI research, given the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence by children and adolescents using digital devices to access the internet and social media.

Journal: The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Childhood poverty and/or parental mental illness may double teens’ risk of violence and police contact

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Living with persistent poverty and/or parental mental illness throughout childhood may double the risk of carrying and/or using a weapon and getting on the wrong side of the law by the age of 17, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

Journal: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Funder: NIHR Public Health Policy Research Unit (PH-PRU)

Fizzy water might aid weight loss by boosting glucose uptake and metabolism

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Fizzy water might aid weight loss by boosting blood glucose uptake and metabolism—the rate at which the body uses and converts energy—but the effects are so small, drinking it can’t be relied on alone to shed the pounds, concludes a brief analysis published in the open access journal BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health.

Journal: BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health