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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 5-May-2025 06:09 ET (5-May-2025 10:09 GMT/UTC)

Students who use dating apps take more risks with their sexual health

Frontiers
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the US looked for associations between the use of dating apps, sexual behavior, and a history of HIV/STIs among college students in North Texas. They showed that there was an association between risky sexual behavior and the use of dating apps. They propose that the two may be mutually reinforcing.

Journal: Frontiers in Reproductive Health

Depression research pioneer Dr. Philip Gold maps disease's full-body impact

Genomic Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a significant contribution to Brain Medicine's Seymour Reichlin Centenary Festschrift, renowned neuroendocrinologist Dr. Philip W. Gold synthesizes decades of research revealing depression's profound effects on both brain and body. His comprehensive analysis shows how neuroendocrine disruptions in depression can reduce life expectancy by 7-10 years, offering crucial insights for future therapeutic directions.

Journal: Brain Medicine

Age on the molecular level: showing changes through proteins

Osaka Metropolitan University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers analyzed all proteins and RNA in eight major tissues of young and old mice to construct a database that covers genes that change with age.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: Japan Science and Technology Agency

The Lancet: Without immediate action nearly 260 million people in the USA predicted to have overweight or obesity by 2050

The Lancet
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Over the past three decades, there has been a startling increase in the prevalence of obesity across the USA, at least doubling in adult men and women (aged 25 and older) and older female and male adolescents (aged 15-24 years) since 1990, with the number of people living with overweight and obesity reaching over 208 million in 2021—a trend set to continue in the coming decades without significant reform, according to a major new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study Collaborator Network, published in The Lancet.

Journal: The Lancet
Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

US over 40s could live extra 5 years if they were all as active as top 25% of population

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

If every American over the age of 40 was as physically active as the top 25% of the population, they could expect to live an extra 5 years, on average, suggest the findings of a modelling study published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Journal: British Journal of Sports Medicine

Fayetteville police positive about partnership with social workers

University of Arkansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

University of Arkansas researchers report that police officers value a new program in which social workers assist on calls with people suffering mental health crises.

Journal: Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
Funder: National Institute of Justice

UT Health San Antonio ranks at the top 5% globally among universities for clinical medicine research

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Business Announcement

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) ranks at the top 5% of universities in the world for clinical medicine, and in the top 12% of universities overall globally, according U.S. News & World Report.