As the incidence of cancer among reproductive-age people continues to increase in the U.S., with approximately one out of every 1,000 pregnancies complicated by cancer, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) today issued its first evidence-based clinical guidance for diagnosing and treating cancer during pregnancy. 

New Stanford-led research traces a direct line from warmer, wetter weather to a mosquito-borne disease epidemic. The findings could help inform policy and interventions to blunt such outbreaks.

Three different anesthesia drugs all work by disrupting the brain’s balance between stability and excitability, MIT researchers find. The discovery of this common mechanism could make it easier to develop new technologies for monitoring patients undergoing anesthesia.

About The Study: In this mixed-methods cohort study of Australian women who inject drugs, violence against women was pervasive and severe, yet rates of seeking health care remained low likely due to intersecting structural and social barriers. Recognition of the burden of violence is a critical first step in ensuring tailored responses to violence that meet the needs of marginalized women.

In the journal Chaos, researchers use nonlinear dynamics to calculate the dose of medication required to treat eczema, exploring why flare-ups happen and how to improve treatment outcomes. They divided their mathematical approach into two regimes: suppressing an active flare-up and keeping the condition in remission. The. In the first phase, the amount of medication required — as determined by the skin’s permeability and the patient’s immune response — scales proportionally and predictably, but in the second phase, the relationship is highly nonlinear.

About The Study: In this cohort study of individuals living with hypertension, maintaining a healthy lifestyle was associated with lower risk of major cardiometabolic diseases independent of antihypertensive medication use, underscoring the value of adopting multiple healthy lifestyle behaviors. A healthy lifestyle was defined as eating a high-quality diet, not smoking, engaging in moderate-to-vigorous-intensity physical activity, no more than moderate alcohol consumption, and having a healthy body mass index.

A nationally representative survey explores which American adults have had thoughts of shooting others, and factors that might provide opportunities to reduce risk of thoughts becoming reality.

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