A husband’s optimism and confidence may play a crucial, if often unseen, role in helping babies arrive healthy and on time, according to a study by University of California, Merced researchers. When married fathers reported higher levels of resilience, their partners showed lower levels of inflammation during pregnancy and carried their babies longer.

A three-year grant, totaling $1.3 million from the U.S. Department of Education, will fund the James Madison College Academy for Civic Education, or ACE, offering intensive seminars built around primary sources like the U.S. Constitution, Federalist Papers, works that inspired America’s founding principles and pivotal speeches that have shaped American democracy.

Young people in Scotland are experimenting with nicotine pouches and reporting adverse effects such as sickness and fainting, according to new research from the Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen) published today in the journal Addiction.

About The Study: In this case series, nonoptimal temperatures were critical environmental contributors associated with mortality burden, with differential vulnerability by geographic location, cause of death, and demographic factors. These findings highlight the need for urgent actions against temperature-related health burdens through tailored climate and public health strategies, considering the local context and demographic profiles. 

A new approach to identifying food deserts using grocery store purchase data suggests that store proximity is not the driver of nutritionally deficient diets – it is financial and social inequality.