An interdisciplinary study correlates diabetic markers and psychological variables, concluding that self-efficacy, understood as the belief in one's ability to achieve results, generates changes in behavior that improve glycemic control among adolescent patients with type I diabetes

Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), discusses her groundbreaking work in addiction neuroscience and brain imaging in a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview. Dr. Volkow reveals how personal experiences shaped her mission to destigmatize addiction and advance evidence-based treatments, while exploring promising developments in treatment and recovery.

Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) populations often experience poor mental health due to social stigmatization, discrimination and inequitable treatment. To improve the inclusivity of current sexual orientation measurements and examine associated mental health outcomes, researchers analyzed the difference in responses between two national population-based health surveys in the U.S. Their findings suggest that the current sexual orientation measures are inefficient in identifying all sexual minority groups, thus underestimating mental health outcomes.

By analyzing all live births in Canada over a six-year period and following children for more than two decades, researchers found that preterm births and the related cognitive, development and physical health impacts of prematurity are associated with lower income, employment and university enrollment

Individuals born before 37 weeks of gestation, considered to be preterm infants, have, on average, lower employment income, university enrollment and educational attainment through age 28, according to a new study publishing November 6, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Petros Pechlivanoglou of The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.