Warning that drinking ANY amount of alcohol may raise risk of 60 diseases
Oxford University researchers, who looked at data on half a million men in China, found that drinking alcohol can raise the chances of developing gout, cataracts and fractures. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Quitting smoking can improve mental health
A new study has shown that quitting smoking can improve mental health outcomes for people with and without mental health disorders. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that smoking abstinence, particularly between weeks nine and 24, was associated with significant improvements in anxiety and depression scores. The findings published in JAMA Network Open have... Read moreThe post Quitting smoking can improve mental health appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - June 8, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Carolyn Scott Tags: Addiction and mental health Respiratory Smoking cessation Source Type: news
Fertility rates plunge to decade low as researchers find biggest dip in female graduates
Women of all backgrounds had fewer children over the past decade and did so later in life than in previous years, according to Oxford University researchers. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sleeping apart due to snoring could improve relationships, scientist says
Move into separate rooms can mark a new beginning as couple are well rested and happier, claims expertSleeping in separate rooms due to a snoring partner could improve people ’s relationships rather than marking the end, a leading sleep scientist has said.Couples moving into separate rooms can enter the “beginning of a new relationship”, where they are well rested and, ideally, happier, according to Russell Foster, a professor of circadian neuroscience at the University of Oxford and director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 5, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Mabel Banfield-Nwachi Tags: Sleep Relationships Marriage Health Society Hay festival UK news World news & wellbeing Family Life and style Science Source Type: news
World's most polluted countries REVEALED - and the worst might surprise you…
Residents in Nepal are exposed to 99.73 micrograms per cubic metre (μg) of fine particulate matter, on average, throughout the year, according to Oxford University's data platform. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sustained Smoking Cessation Tied to Improved Mental Health
THURSDAY, June 1, 2023 -- Smoking cessation sustained for at least 15 weeks is associated with improved mental health outcomes, according to a study published online May 31 in JAMA Network Open.
Angela Difeng Wu, from the University of Oxford in the... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - June 1, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
TREMFYA ® (guselkumab) Provides Sustained Improvements Across All Minimal Disease Activity Domains for Adults Living with Active Psoriatic Arthritis in Phase 3b Trial
SPRING HOUSE, PENNSYLVANIA, May 31, 2023 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced new data from the Phase 3b COSMOS clinical trial showing that treatment with TREMFYA® (guselkumab) provided sustainable improvements in all minimal disease activity (MDA)a domains through week 48 in adults living with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) who previously had an inadequate response to one to two tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi-IR).[1] In a separate post-hoc analysis of the Phase 3 DISCOVER-1 and DISCOVER-2b clinical trial findings, TREMFYA was shown to be associated with prompt and su...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - May 31, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Artificial intelligence holds huge promise – and peril. Let’s choose the right path | Michael Osborne
AI can fight the climate crisis and fuel a renewable-energy revolution. It could also kill countless jobs or incite nuclear warThe last few months have been by far the most exciting of my 17 years working on artificial intelligence. Among many other advances, OpenAI ’s ChatGPT – a type of AI known as a large language model – smashed records in January to become the fastest-growing consumer application of all time,achieving 100 million users in two months.No one knows for certain what ’s going to happen next with AI. There’s too much going on, on too many fronts, behind too many closed doors. However, we do know t...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 20, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Michael Osborne Tags: Artificial intelligence (AI) Technology Science Computing Source Type: news
Britain's Oxford University cuts ties with Sackler family over opioid links
The University of Oxford has cut ties with the Sackler family, whose wealth derives from opioid drugs, removing their name form a number of positions and buildings, including two galleries in the Ashmolean Museum. Britain's University of Oxford cut ties with key benefactor the Sackler family,…#universityofoxford #ashmoleanmuseum #irenetracey #britishmuseum #victoriaalbert #purduepharma #oxycontin #oxforduniversity #university #clarendonarch (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Overhaul UK fertility law to keep up with advancements, expert says
Exclusive: IVF in Britain ‘is the most successful and the safest it has ever been’, says Tim ChildA leading fertility expert has said the law should be overhauled so that rapid advancements in reproductive science do not stall.Prof Tim Child of the University of Oxford said IVF in the UK was “the most successful and the safest that it has ever been”, and noted that the chance of having a baby from a single embryo was rising and the likelihood of having multiple births dropping.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: IVF Fertility problems Science Law Health Society UK news Pregnancy Source Type: news
Call for psychosis treatment overhaul after evidence of autoimmune trigger
Patients to be treated with medicines used for arthritis and lupus in relaunch of pioneering UK trialOne of the UK ’s leading psychiatrists is calling for an overhaul of the diagnosis and treatment of psychotic disorders following evidence that a small but significant fraction of cases could be triggered by an autoimmune response.Speaking before the relaunch of a groundbreaking trial in which psychosis patients are being treated with medicines normally reserved for autoimmune conditions such as arthritis and lupus, Prof Belinda Lennox, the head of psychiatry at the University of Oxford, said she hoped the work would pave...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 12, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Hannah Devlin Science correspondent Tags: Mental health Psychiatry Society Medical research Science UK news Source Type: news
Introducing Cochrane Person-Centred Care, Health Systems and Public Health
Characterised by close collaboration and cross-disciplinary expertise, Cochrane ’s newPerson-Centred Care, Health Systems and Public Health Thematic Group is led by Rebecca Ryan (CCC, La Trobe University Australia), Luke Wolfenden (CPH, University of Newcastle, Australia), Simon Lewin (EPOC, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Sasha Shepperd (EPOC, University of Oxford), the new Group has its sights set on bringing quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods expertise to evidence applied across diverse clinical areas, populations and contexts. ‘We know the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) high...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - May 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common
When neuropsychologist Bernhard Sabel put his new fake-paper detector to work, he was “shocked” by what it found. After screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%. Both numbers, which he and colleagues report
in a medRxiv preprint
posted on 8 May, are well above levels they calculated for 2010—and far larger than the 2% baseline estimated in
a 2022 publishers’ group report
.
“It is just too hard to believe” at first, says Sabel of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg a...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 9, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Most antidepressants prescribed for chronic pain lack reliable evidence of efficacy or safety, scientists warn
Largest ever investigation into antidepressants used for chronic pain shows insufficient evidence to determine how effective or harmful they may be.Study reviewed commonly prescribed medications including amitriptyline, duloxetine, fluoxetine, citalopram, paroxetine, and sertraline.One third of people globally are living with long-term pain with many prescribed antidepressants to relieve symptoms.Most antidepressants used for chronic pain are being prescribed with “insufficient” evidence of their effectiveness, scientists have warned.A major investigation into medications used to manage long-term pain found that harms ...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - May 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
News at a glance: U.S. tallies old-growth forests, Canadian scientists march for higher pay, and condor poop reveals the birds ’ ancient history
FOREST ECOLOGY
U.S. boosts tally of old forests
Last year, President Joe Biden surprised forest scientists when he ordered an inventory of the government’s holdings of mature and old-growth forests by this Earth Day. It triggered a scramble by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to create a formal definition of what constitutes “mature” and “old-growth” forests and to apply those definitions across millions of hectares. Meeting the 22 April deadline last month,
the agencies released their findings in a report
, noting that of the nearly 72 million hectares of fo...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 4, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
