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Social & Behavior

New study shows an increased prevalence of headaches in adolescents during COVID-19 pandemic

emotive
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The multicenter study analyzed 851 adolescents aged between 10 and 18, with 756 (89%) of children reporting headaches over the study period.

Meeting: 8th EAN Congress

Risk of premature death in patients with childhood immune-mediated inflammatory disease over 3 times greater, new study reveals

emotive
Reports and Proceedings

Patients with a paediatric onset immune-mediated inflammatory disease (pIMID) have a significantly higher risk of premature death, according to new research being presented today at the 54th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN).

Meeting: 54th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

Nanomaterials that provide imaging while delivering medication

University of Texas at Arlington
Grant and Award Announcement

biodegradable nanomaterials that will take pictures and deliver medicine to combat peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Kytai Nguyen, a UT Arlington bioengineering professor, is the principal investigator in the four-year, $2.1 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant.

Novel sewage treatment system removes up to 70% of nitrogen that would otherwise be discarded into nature

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Brazilian researchers have designed a new low-cost anaerobic reactor that uses a bacterial biofilm on a sheet of polyurethane foam. The goal is to enable more wastewater treatment plants in Brazil to achieve nitrogen removal and reduce water body contamination.

Journal: Environmental Technology
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

New data-driven simulation model projects national opioid crisis to worsen before it gets better

MIT Sloan School of Management
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Collaborating with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Mohammad Jalali and his research colleagues have created a data-driven simulation model that incorporates key behavioral feedbacks such as social influence and risk perceptions. Called SOURCE (Simulation of Opioid Use, Response, Consequences, and Effects), the model has projected three key strategies that could save more than 100,000 lives over the next ten years.

Journal: Science Advances

Theories on socio-political evolution put to the test

Complexity Science Hub Vienna
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team around Peter Turchin from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) tests various theories on what drove human socio-cultural evolution in the Holocene. The scientists analyze a vast body of data from Seshat: Global History Databank. They find the best explanation to be a combination of increasing agricultural productivity and the invention, or adoption, of military technologies (most notably, the invention of iron weapons and cavalry in the first millennium BCE).

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: John Templeton Foundation, Economic and Social Research Council, Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, European Research Council, Institute of Economics and Peace to develop a Historical Peace Index, Institute of Economics and Peace to develop a Historical Peace Index, Office of Naval Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG, V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation, Tricoastal Foundation

Specific environmental exposures may help predict increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mount Sinai study can lead to improved patient screening and preventive measures to limit adverse events

Journal: PLoS ONE
Funder: NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

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