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Nurse practitioner workforce grew 10% yearly, outpacing physicians and PAs from 2016 to 20

New Columbia University School of Nursing research reveals nurse practitioner (NP) workforce growth outpaced prior projections while physician and physician associate (PA) growth remained steady between 2016 and 2023. During this period, the NP workforce expanded at an average an

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Dry mRNA vaccine patches reveal design rules for room-temperature storage

New research could help make future mRNA vaccines easier to store and distribute. The study, involving RMIT University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School, identified conditions that help protect the particles that carry mRNA in dry vaccine patch

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Is porn actually addictive? The science isn't straightforward

Porn is a topic we tend to avoid talking about—whether it be at school, work or around the dinner table. But in Australia, roughly three-quarters of men (76%) and more than one-third of women (41%) report to have looked at pornographic material in the past year.

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Health apps and feeds reshape doctor visits, surveys of US adults show

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine recently published two new studies in JAMA Network Open and JAMA that offer new insights into how people interact with wearable devices and health-related content on social media.

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Race and ethnicity modify the association between US socioeconomic status and metabolic di

Higher socioeconomic status is not associated with equal reductions in rates of type 2 diabetes and obesity across all racial and ethnic groups in the United States, according to a new study published July 8, 2026, in the open-access journal PLOS One by Sara Cromer of Harvard Med

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Gut bacteria linked to malnutrition may pass to younger generations

A study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that an intestinal disorder linked to malnutrition and stunted growth may be transmitted from one generation to the next via the small intestinal microbiome. Analyzing mouse models of the

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Current substance misuse prevention misses scale, argues paper; schools and digital tools

A new analysis published in the journal Prevention Science calls for a major shift in how the United States approaches substance misuse prevention strategies and programs. The findings argue that the current strategy for providing prevention services may not be reaching enough pe

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Kids received mental health treatment in record numbers after pandemic, records show

When schools closed in the spring of 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of children and adolescents receiving mental health treatment in the United States fell by more than half. By 2022, that number had not only rebounded, it exceeded pre-pandemic levels, acc

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Cancer evolution study reveals biology of glioma progression

A form of glioma, a type of brain cancer, tends to progress toward greater malignancy due to an increasing tendency of glioma cells to transform into immature, stem cell-like states, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, the New York Genome Center,

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Primary care, specialists and hospitals: Bridging the gaps in communication and coordinati

In the recently published article, "Primary Care, Specialists, and Hospitals: Bridging the Gaps in Communication and Coordination" in Medical Clinics of North America, Dawn M. Bravata, M.D., a research scientist at Regenstrief Institute, professor of neurology at Indiana Universi

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How studying oral inflammatory diseases can help researchers understand other human diseas

A team of researchers from VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, the VCU School of Dentistry and the University of Pennsylvania recently published a study in Nature Communications examining why some oral inflammatory diseases progress much more rapidly than others.

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Study finds obesity 'fuels' leukemia, but a combo using popular weight-loss drugs may stop

Obesity can act as fuel for leukemia, according to a study led by Indiana University School of Medicine scientists. To help patients facing aggressive blood cancers overcome this metabolic risk, researchers identified a potential treatment strategy that combines popular weight-lo

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