Tobacco policy and communications expert Jim Thrasher believes the decision goes well beyond the individual. In a new $2.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, the health promotion, education, and behavior professor will investigate how social influences – particularly those through social media – impact teens’ decisions to smoke and use e-cigarettes.

The American Heart Association and Chicago Bears provided Hands-Only CPR education at high school girls’ flag football championship to improve cardiac emergency outcomes

A collaborative team of researchers led by Dale Zhou, who did his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, and Dani Bassett in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science looked at how nearly half a million people around the world use Wikipedia’s knowledge networks. They found stark differences in browsing habits between countries offering insights into cultural differences and potential drivers of curiosity and learning.

Depression can lead to poor outcomes during antiretroviral therapy, and current evidence suggests high rates of depression among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV), especially in low-and middle-income countries. This study was designed to investigate the sociodemographic factors associated with depression among PLHIV on antiretroviral therapy in a Nigerian cosmopolitan city.

A major international study involving 56,968 adults, aged 18 to 99, has found that levels of nature connectedness and nature exposure are associated with several socioeconomic and demographic factors.

Higher scores were significantly associated with being female, being older, having greater financial security, living in a rural location, being in a committed relationship, having a higher level of education, and being in a racial majority in that country.

The research, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, was led by Professor Viren Swami of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and involved over 250 academics from over 60 countries.