Researchers have found a new approach to incorporating the larger web of relevant data for predictive modeling for individual and community health outcomes. While data on such «macro» factors is critical to tracking and predicting health outcomes for individuals and communities, analysts who apply machine-learning tools to health outcomes tend to rely on «micro» data…

Diagnostic tests developed in-house in hospital laboratories are not currently regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), unlike those sold by manufacturers. A new study suggests that temporary deviations from FDA policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic offer a look at what regulation of these tests by the agency might look like. Findings…

Reports of racial discrimination against Asians and Asian-Americans have increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, coinciding with an increase in reported negative health symptoms, according to researchers. That’s according to a new paper written by Washington State University researchers recently published in the journal Stigma and Health. «When COVID…

People over age 65 at the highest risk for severe COVID-19 have often been the least likely to receive monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) — a highly effective treatment for the disease — both across and within U.S. states, according to new research. The analysis will be published online February 4, 2022 in JAMA. «Monoclonal antibodies should…

Using data sets that only became available in recent years, researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York analyzed the wage impact of cognitive skills in South Africa. How much of those wage gains come from schooling, and how much from cognitive abilities developed long before the student sets foot in a classroom? Data…

A new systematic review of 65 studies from around the world involves a total of 97,333 health care workers and finds that one in five have experienced depression, anxiety, and/or PTSD during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has posed significant challenges for health care workers, with many fearing for their own safety while facing…

A new study questions conventional methods of calculating carbon emissions liability based on point source pollution by introducing new ‘bottleneck’ theory. Fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) emit carbon dioxide when burned, which scientists say is the greenhouse gas primarily responsible for global warming and climate change. Climate change causes numerous problems that economists…

India’s transition to clean cooking fuels may be hampered by users’ belief that using firewood is better for their families’ wellbeing than switching to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), a new study reveals. Women are considered primary family cooks in rural India and those featured in the study feel that both fuels support wellbeing. Understanding these…

With few additional targeted tests and non-invasive surveys, public health agencies can better estimate disease occurrence and trends, changes in transmission, rates of hospitalization and death and effectiveness of vaccines and other control measures. Currently, COVID-19 testing is primarily limited to self-selected individuals, many of whom are symptomatic or have had contact with someone who…

British newspapers are routinely glamorizing combat by creating a moral separation between combat and non-combat injuries, according to new research. Academics from Anglia Ruskin University’s Veterans and Families Institute for Military Social Research (VFI) examined the reporting of injuries sustained by British military personnel during the height of the UK’s war in Afghanistan in 2009,…