[ad_1] City dwellers with high exposure to green space have a significantly lower risk of developing schizophrenia than their counterparts who live in areas with little green space, a new study shows. The investigators, led by Martine Rotenberg, MD, Center for Addiction and Mental Health and the University of Toronto, Canada, found individuals living in…
[ad_1] Using MammoRisk, a software tool used to estimate an individual’s 5-year risk of developing breast cancer, is feasible in community practices, according to a recent study. The assessment is based on a patient’s clinical data and breast density, with or without a polygenic risk score (PRS). Adding the latter criterion to the model led to…
[ad_1] France — Demand for gender reassignment surgery in children and adolescents has increased in the United States and Europe over the past few years. For its part, the French National Academy of Medicine has urged that caution be exercised when it comes to the therapies involved and advised that the psychological support phase be extended.…
[ad_1] Charlie O’Neill received part of her husband’s liver in a 2013 living donor transplant and has been taking drugs that suppress her immune system ever since to prevent her body from attacking the organ. “I frequently get infections,” she said. “Just being an immune-compromised person, you are faced with just every little cold and…
[ad_1] A California lawmaker is attempting to blunt efforts by other states to restrict gender-affirming care for youth with legislation that would protect from legal sanction transgender children who travel there for treatment and the clinicians who assist them. Sen. Scott Wiener A bill proposed by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) would bar enforcement of civil…
[ad_1] The study covered in this summary was published in researchsquare.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways Incomplete device endothelialization (IDE) is common in the 6 months after a successful left atrial appendage (LAA) closure procedure, especially in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), larger LAA ostial diameter, and larger…
[ad_1] Exposure to shift work appears to influence the timing of menopause onset in both directions, new data suggest. Among nearly 4000 Canadian women surveyed, one in five reported exposure to shift work — that is, outside of the usual daytime business hours — at some point in their lives. After adjustment for confounders, rotating…
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Russia has told its academics to avoid scientific conferences abroad this year, the science and higher education ministry said on Monday, as Moscow finds itself increasingly isolated over its military campaign in Ukraine. The ministry said it had also decided to suspend the indexation of work by Russian scholars in international databases…
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Some of Ukraine’s most vulnerable orphans have reached relative safety at a hospital in Kyiv where doctors hope to be able to provide care and perform life-saving surgeries. More than 70 children, including infants, who have spent the past two weeks cared for in bomb shelters in the besieged city of Sumy…
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Most children and adolescents do not have COVID-19 antibodies in their blood after recovering from a SARS-CoV-2 infection, new data has confirmed. Starting in October 2020, researchers in Texas recruited 218 subjects between the ages of 5 and 19 who had recovered from COVID infections at some point in the past. Each…