New Finnish Study Suggests That Clinical Gender Dysphoria Does Not Appear to Be Predictive of All-Cause nor Suicide Mortality When Psychiatric Treatment History Is Accounted For

US workers during the covid-19 pandemic: uneven risks, inadequate protections, and predictable consequences

How the commercial virtual care industry gathers, uses and values patient data: a Canadian qualitative study

Association of accelerometer-measured physical activity and its change with progression to chronic kidney disease in adults with type 2 diabetes and overweight/obesity

A new study has found that an online rehabilitation programme improves quality of life for adults with long COVID.

Covid-19: Negligence by Experts

Largest systematic review and meta-analysis finds there is no long term data on the effectiveness of tricyclic antidepressants, small short term benefits, increase in serious adverse effects…

Women with perinatal depression were associated with an increased risk of death in the first year after perinatal depression, and this association remained up to 18 years after start of follow up.

Energy drinks linked to poor sleep quality and insomnia among college students, according to a study (survey) conducted on 53,266 students aged 18–35 years in Norway

$14.2 million in undisclosed conflicts of interest in the “bible” of psychiatry

Predominantly plant-based or vegetarian diet linked to 39% lower odds of COVID-19

Comparison of the number of pedestrian and cyclist injuries captured in police data compared with health service utilisation data in Toronto, Canada 2016–2021

Cognitive task analysis of clinicians’ drug–drug interaction management during patient care and implications for alert design

Early menopause—before the age of 45—taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and having 4 or more children are among several hormonal and reproductive factors linked to a heightened risk of rheumatoid arthritis in women, according to a long-term study of over 223,000 women.

Female victims of gun violence in the US are less likely to die than their male counterparts, despite having similar injury severity, finds a 7-year analysis

ForePass endoscopic bypass device for obesity and insulin resistance—metabolic treatment in a swine model

Long-term risk of cervical cancer is higher in women undergoing active surveillance for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2

Child mask mandates for Covid-19: a systematic review

Walking at faster speeds is associated with a graded decrease in the risk of type 2 diabetes

New research shows air pollution from using fossil fuels in industry, power generation, and transportation accounts for 5.1 million extra deaths a year worldwide.

A review of 17,077 studies involving 1,431,534 adolescents (mean age 15 years) found that social media use is associated with adverse health risk behaviours in young people

New study suggests a strong association between covid-19 vaccination before infection and reduced risk of post-covid-19 condition (PCC)/ long COVID

Based on current trends (but excluding the COVID-19 pandemic), 4 types of animal-to-human (zoonotic) infections are set to kill 12 times more people in 2050 than in 2020, warn the researchers

Is the US's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System broken?

22 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous activity may provide an antidote to the ills of prolonged sitting

Increased consumption of carbohydrate from refined grains, starchy vegetables, and sugary drinks is associated with greater weight gain throughout midlife, while increased fibre and carbohydrate from whole grains, fruit, and non-starchy vegetables is linked to less weight gain.

Effectiveness of physical activity for improving depression, anxiety, distress

Global trends in incidence, death, burden and risk factors of early-onset cancer

Air pollution (including wildfires) linked to dementia even 10+ years later

Sword swallowing and its side effects (2006) [pdf]

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