Use of controversial weedkiller, in particular glyphosate, inadvertently selects for drug-resistant bacteria that can spread to hospitals
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Use of controversial weedkiller inadvertently selects for drug-resistant bacteria that can spread to hospitals
Agricultural soils exposed to glyphosate may be unexpected breeding ground for hospital ‘superbugs’
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A study of hundreds of thousands of people across Finland has found that people who were treated in hospital for cystitis, pneumonia, or tooth decay were significantly more likely to develop dementia – including an early-onset form of the condition – within the next six years.
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New Scientist
Cystitis or tooth decay could trigger dementia just a few years later | New Scientist
Infections are increasingly being linked to a higher risk of dementia. In the latest research, scientists have found that being treated in hospital for a severe infection seems to raise the risk of developing the condition over the next five to six years
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Contrary to the rhetoric of anti-wind groups, there is no evidence that proximity to wind turbines leads to adverse health outcomes [Data: longitudinal health surveys of 120,000+ households and consumer spending records of people living near wind turbines].
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PNAS
Wind turbine proximity and health: Longitudinal evidence from US households
Rapid growth of wind energy plays a key role in global efforts to reduce carbon emissions, yet public concerns persist about its potential health e...
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Risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 'close to zero' after HPV vaccine rollout - Children vaccinated at age 12–13 against HPV (human papillomavirus) have close to zero risk of dying from cervical cancer before the age of 30, landmark new research reveals.
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Bbc
Risk of cervical cancer death before 30 'close to zero' after HPV vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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Many U.S. teens underestimate fentanyl’s deadly risk | Using the synthetic opioid once could be lethal, but many adolescents aren’t aware of the danger, researchers report in JAMA
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Science News
Many U.S. teens underestimate fentanyl’s deadly risk
A majority of 8th-graders and roughly a third of 10th- and 12th-graders do not see great risk in using fentanyl once or twice, a study reports.
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Wealth and air pollution emerge as top predictors of US state autism rates. Higher average wealth and education, combined with higher microscopic particle pollution, tend to align with higher rates of autism diagnoses across the United States.
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PsyPost
Wealth and air pollution emerge as top predictors of state autism rates
A new geographical psychology study reveals that a state's socioeconomic status and air pollution levels are the strongest predictors of its autism rates, explaining over half the geographic variance in diagnoses across the United States.
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People living within a 10-minute walk of improved urban woodlands are 10% less likely to use antidepressants and 6% less likely to use anti-anxiety medication, according to a 5-year UK study of 129,335 people
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The University of Edinburgh
Woodlands linked to reduced antidepressant use | News | The University of Edinburgh
Improving and maintaining woodlands in deprived communities is linked with reduced antidepressant and anti-anxiety medication use, research suggests.