Pregnant women who sleep less than 7 hours a night may have children with developmental delays
Pregnant women who do not get enough sleep may be at higher risk of having children with neurodevelopmental delays, according to new research published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of…
Large variation in how girls grow after their first period
There is unexpectedly large variation in height growth in girls after their first period. Every second girl grows either more or less in length than the 6-8 centimeters that is…
Automatic speech recognition learned to understand people with Parkinson’ s disease by listening to them
As Mark Hasegawa-Johnson combed through data from his latest project, he was pleasantly surprised to uncover a recipe for Eggs Florentine. Sifting through hundreds of hours of recorded speech will…
Estrogens play a hidden role in cancers, inhibiting a key immune cell
Estrogens are known to drive tumor growth in breast cancer cells that carry its receptors, but a new study by Duke Cancer Institute researchers unexpectedly finds that estrogens play a…
Asthma rates lower in children who received only breast milk at birth hospital #AAP2024 #AmerAcadPeds
Infants who were exclusively fed breast milk during their hospitalization at birth were 22% less likely to develop asthma in early childhood, according to research presented during the American Academy…
Social media used to facilitate sexual assault in children: new research
About 7% of more than 1,000 teens who disclosed sexual abuse at a California hospital reported that social media was used to facilitate the assault, according to research presented during…
MRSA: Superbugs spread to family members of recently hospitalized patients
Family members of patients recently discharged from the hospital may have a higher risk of getting an antibiotic-resistant infection, often called a superbug, even if the patient was not diagnosed…
Gynaecological Cancers: Immunotherapy and Novel Targeted Drug Appear Beneficial in Group of Women with Early-Stage Disease #ESMO24
Studies reported at ESMO 2024 reveal new groups of women with early-stage endometrial (1) and cervical cancers (2) who gain clinically meaningful benefit from adding immunotherapy to current standard treatments,…
First evidence that Breastfeeding after Breast Cancer is safe #ESMO24 in Barcelona
According to two international studies presented at the ESMO Congress 2024 in Barcelona, women who breastfeed after receiving treatment for breast cancer, including those with a germline BRCA mutation (an…
Air pollution linked to higher risk of infertility in men
Long term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution is linked to a higher risk of infertility in men, whereas road traffic noise is linked to a higher risk…