Businesses must prepare for the wave of consumer concern around microplastics pollution amid the global push for increased regulation, disclosure and change.

Dr. Jeffrey Keller, Hibernia National Bank/Edward G. Schleider Endowed Chair at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, and Sara Seifert, president of Minnesota HealthSolutions, have received a new National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award to develop an innovative digital health platform that will help parents support teenagers with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as they learn to drive. Teen drivers with ADHD represent one of the highest risk groups for motor vehicle crashes.

The Phase I SBIR award of $353,306, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, supports the collaboration between Pennington Biomedical and Minnesota HealthSolutions. 

A new study led by Swansea University has laid bare the devastating impact that soaring infant formula milk prices are having on the health, finances, and mental wellbeing of UK parents and their children.

Pharmaceutical spending has become increasingly focused on highly novel drugs in the last decade, driven primarily by increased use of innovative medicines rather than high prices on a few treatments.

Healthcare leaders say generational differences about workplace flexibility, expectations of staying in the same job, burnout and transition to retirement are making it more difficult to retain doctors and nurses.

About the Study: What is the potential impact of expanding alcohol screening and brief interventions in primary care on premature mortality from major alcohol-related causes of death in US adults? In this decision analytical model and microsimulation study, expanding delivery of alcohol brief interventions to an additional 8 million interventions per year was projected to reduce annual alcohol-related potential years of life lost per 100 000 adults by −51.3 (95% credible interval [CrI], −73.2 to −32.8) in men and −34.1 (CrI, −54.5 to −16.1) in women by 2030 compared with the status quo. These findings suggest that substantially expanding alcohol screening and brief interventions in primary care may reduce premature mortality and help narrow the socioeconomic gap in alcohol-related mortality in the US.