There is little awareness, particularly among clinicians, of the medical and psychological complexities of ‘topical steroid withdrawal’—the body’s adverse response to the prolonged use of these powerful creams to treat inflammatory skin conditions when they are either tapered or suddenly stopped—warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports.

Legalized sports betting comes with a hidden public safety cost: a measurable rise in violent and impulsive crime on game days––even in states without gambling, according to new research led by the University of Michigan.

Researchers Rachel Ruttan and Katherine DeCelles of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management are anything but neutral on neutrality. The next time you're tempted to play it safe on a hot-button topic, their evidence-based advice is to consider saying what you really think.

 

That's because their recent research, based on more than a dozen experiments with thousands of participants, reveals that people take a dim view of others' professed neutrality on controversial issues, rating them just as morally suspect as those expressing an opposing viewpoint, if not worse.

By linking decades of weather and income data, University of Arizona economist Derek Lemoine shows how routine temperature shifts have already become an economic force.

A risk evaluation aimed at helping protect women from domestic violence is working but could be improved to help more victims, say researchers.

The Domestic Abuse, Stalking, Harassment and Honour-Based Violence (DASH) tool is used by police forces throughout the UK to assess risk of future domestic abuse.

But now research involving Cardiff and Swansea universities along with Dyfed-Powys police has been able to demonstrate that the DASH is an effective predictor of deadly domestic abuse although it could be improved to help victims and the frontline staff who use it.

Poor health is the primary reason why more than half of middle-aged workers in the United States retire earlier than planned, but state vocational rehabilitation agencies that provide career assistance to individuals with disabilities may be able to help potential retirees remain in the workforce longer, according to a study led by Allison Fleming, associate professor of education at Penn State.