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STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays to encourage robust, good-faith discussion about difficult issues. Submit a Letter to the Editor here, or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay. “Medical students lose in the research arms race for residency slots,” by…
More than half of women who smoke before pregnancy quit while pregnant, according to research published in the May 2 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Lauren Kipling, Ph.D., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues used data from the 2021 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System…
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study co-authored by Sophie Janicke-Bowles, associate professor in Chapman University’s School of Communication, sheds light on the role that new and traditional media play in promoting and affecting character development, emotions, prosocial behavior and well-being (aka happiness) in youth. Her research and teaching focus on positive psychology, media and…
KFF Health News senior correspondent Samantha Young discussed Medicaid and climate change on KCBS Radio’s “On-Demand” podcast on April 29. Click here to hear Young on KCBS Read Young’s “AC, Power Banks, Mini Fridges: Oregon Equips Medicaid Patients for Climate Change” KFF Health News contributor Andy Miller discussed Medicaid unwinding on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health…
Lindsay Sabik, Ph.D., associate professor and vice chair for research in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and member of the Biobehavioral Cancer Control Program at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. Credit: Lindsay Sabik Insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were linked with an…
Current status of the NCC biobank. The inventories of the two major samples collected in the biobank are shown as of 31 October 2022. In addition to the 1) peripheral blood samples drawn for research purposes and 2) frozen cancer tissue samples, other left-over samples, such as FFPE blocks and plasma, are also used based…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the 1992 dystopian novel “Children of Men,” later adapted to film, humanity faces the chilling reality of a world without children, a global infertility crisis that threatens to extinguish the species. While this apocalyptic vision might seem far-fetched, today’s real world faces a quieter but equally alarming phenomenon: declining human…
Credit: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2024.02.018 In the field of biomedical research and genomics, the advancement of bioinformatics technologies and tools is opening new frontiers in the understanding of diseases and their diagnosis and treatment. In particular, differential gene expression analysis (DGE) is emerging as a crucial technique to investigate the molecular…
