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Night workers face inequalities in pay, health, safety and dignity

University College London
Reports and Proceedings

A major new study by UCL researchers has revealed the challenges faced by London’s 1.3m night workers, including pay inequality, health problems, transport difficulties, safety concerns and a lack of workplace dignity.

Gender-specific supportive environment key to cutting female athletes’ injury risks

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Creating a safe, gender-specific, supportive environment—one that is free of body shaming and idealised female forms, for example—is key to minimising female athletes’ future risks of injury and protecting their health, emphasises the Female/woman/girl Athlete Injury pRevention (FAIR) Consensus Statement—the first of its kind—published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Journal: British Journal of Sports Medicine
Funder: International Olympic Committee

Overreliance on AI risks eroding new and future doctors’ critical thinking while reinforcing existing bias

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Overreliance on generative AI risks eroding new and future doctors’ critical thinking skills, while potentially reinforcing existing data bias and inequity, warns an editorial published in the online journal BMJ Evidence Based Medicine.

Eating disorders in mums-to-be linked to heightened risk of asthma and wheezing in their kids

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Eating disorders in mums-to-be are linked to a heightened risk of asthma and wheezing in their children, irrespective of the type of disorder, presence of co-existing depression/anxiety, or the timing of their child’s exposure, finds research published online in the journal Thorax.

Journal: Thorax
Funder: EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

Global study backs mandatory strength warm-ups for female athletes

La Trobe University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Routine strength exercise warm-ups should be mandated to reduce leg injuries in female athletes across all ages and levels of competitive sport, according to a new set of global recommendations co-led by La Trobe University, the University of Calgary and supported by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Journal: British Journal of Sports Medicine
Funder: International Olympic Committee

Global analysis: Nearly one in five child deaths linked to growth failure

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nearly one million children around the globe fail to reach their fifth birthday every year due to devastating health consequences linked to child growth failure, making it the third leading risk factor for mortality and morbidity in children under five.

Journal: The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Why do some lung transplant patients face higher rejection risk?

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About one third of lung transplant recipients have a genetic variant that makes them more likely to develop chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD), the primary cause of mortality after lung transplantation

A molecular ‘reset button’ for reading the brain through a blood test

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rice bioengineers have designed an erasable serum marker that could enable clinicians to detect problems or measure any changes in how a patient responds to treatment with greater precision, using simple, minimally-invasive testing.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Oregon’s first-in-the-nation hospital price cap cut costs without comprising care

Brown University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from scholars at Brown University’s Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research finds that Oregon's payment cap had a minimal impact on hospital finances, and through that, hospital operations and patient experience.

Journal: Health Affairs