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Methods to quit smoking effective regardless of mental health history

Methods to quit smoking effective regardless of mental health history

In a survey, researchers found that having a mental health condition affects which smoking cessation aids people are likely to choose, but not their effectiveness. Sarah Jackson and colleagues from University College London and King’s College London branches of the SPECTRUM Consortium conducted a survey to study how mental health relates to methods people use … Read more

Parents tend to suicide in first years after child’s cancer diagnosis

Parents tend to suicide in first years after child’s cancer diagnosis

However, parents are not more likely to die by suicide, finds study of parents in Denmark and Sweden Parents who have a child with cancer are more likely to attempt suicide during the first years after diagnosis, according to a new study conducted by Qianwei Liu of Southern Medical University, China, and colleagues, published January 16th in the open access journal PLOS … Read more

Few eligible patients get access to publicly funded weight management programs

Few eligible patients get access to publicly funded weight management programs

Primary care data on more than 1.8 million adults with overweight or obesity found that only about 3 percent were referred to weight management interventions. Of the more than 1.8 million adults in England with a recorded diagnosis of overweight or obesity, only 3 percent are referred to publicly funded weight management programs, according to … Read more

Mechanism underlying bacterial resistance to the antibiotic albicidin revealed

Mechanism underlying bacterial resistance to the antibiotic albicidin revealed

New study underscores the growing threat of antibiotic resistance in healthcare A new analysis shows that infectious bacteria exposed to the antibiotic albicidin rapidly develop up to a 1,000-fold increase in resistance via a gene amplification mechanism. Mareike Saathoff of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and colleagues present these findings August 10th in the open access journal PLOS Biology. Bacterial resistance … Read more

UK Biobank Study Reveals Modest Links Between Systemic Inflammation and Future Dementia Risk

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A study of data from about 500,000 people in the UK Biobank has uncovered small but statistically significant associations between signs of systemic inflammation and later risk of dementia. Dr. Krisztina Mekli of The University of Manchester, UK, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on July 19, 2023. Millions of people around … Read more

Non-native English speaker in science has hard time to thrive, study finds

Estimated disadvantages for non-native English speakers when conducting different scientific activities. Credit: Amano T et al., 2023, PLOS Biology, CC-BY 4.0

English serves as a convenient, common language for science. However, this practice poses insurmountable barriers to those whose first language is not English — the majority of people around the world. According to research published on July 18th in the open access journal PLOS Biology, led by Dr. Tatsuya Amano at the University of Queensland, Australia, the … Read more

US has an increasingly proportion of excess deaths compared to five European countries

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Excess death gap widens between US and Europe – A new analysis shows that, compared to similarly high-income European countries, the US continues to have substantially higher death rates at all but the oldest ages, resulting in more “excess deaths,” and this gap widened during the Covid-19 pandemic. Patrick Heuveline, of the University of California, … Read more