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]

Women with childhood trauma may go on to have higher risks in pregnancy

Low dose radiation cancer 2x worse than predicted by LNT model

Faecal metabolome and its determinants in inflammatory bowel disease

Royal colleges in the UK have received more than £9 million in marketing payments from drug and medical devices companies since 2015, but do not always disclose the payments publicly…

People with bipolar disorder are 6 times more likely to die before their time from external causes, such as accidents, violence, and suicide, than those without the condition

Vit D supplementation and major cardiovascular events: D-Health randomised trial

Menopausal hormone therapy and dementia: nationwide, nested case-control study

An estimated 795,000 Americans become permanently disabled or die annually across care settings because dangerous diseases are misdiagnosed

Study suggests isometric exercises best for reducing blood pressure

Healing of acute ACL tear on MRI following non-surgical bracing protocol [pdf]

New research has found the average risk of dying from breast cancer in the five years after an early-stage diagnosis has fallen to five per cent from 14 per cent since the 1990s.

Moving for an hour a day can lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 74 per cent

The Bhopal gas explosion in 1984—one of India’s worst industrial disasters—may have heightened the risk of disability and cancer in later life among future generations, curbed their educational attainment, and prompted a fall in the proportion of male births the following year.

One in six people who had COVID-19 without first being vaccinated report still feeling health effects two years after the virus, according to Swiss research

Parachute use to prevent death, trauma when jumping from aircraft (2018) [pdf]

Physical & sexual abuse in childhood & adolescence could be associated with a greater risk of adult premature death

Medication use and comorbidities in an increasingly younger osteoarthritis population: an 18-year retrospective open-cohort study

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