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Patients who are members of the BDSM community are likely to have had negative healthcare experiences, and these experiences impact their communication with and trust in future medical encounters.

Can incidental physical activity offset the deleterious associations of sedentary behaviour with major adverse cardiovascular events

New Study Sheds Light on Ancient Protoribosome and its Role in Early Life Evolution

Effect of Covid-19 global lockdown on our Moon

Scholars have debated whether the Holodomor famine in Ukraine (1932–1933) was intentionally targeted towards Ukrainians or inadvertent

Fermentation Practices Select for Thermostable Endolysins in Phages

The use of circadian-informed lighting, where artificial lighting is synchronised to the natural biological rhythms or a person’s ‘body-clock’, significantly improves quality of sleep and work performance for night shift workers…

Expanding the list of cancers recognized to be caused by infectious agents

Association of COVID-19 Vaccination with Risk of Medically-Attended Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 During the Ancestral, Alpha, Delta, and Omicron Variant Eras [Note: Finds no protective effect of COVID19 vaccination against long covid]

Study finds that medications used to treat alcohol use disorders (naltrexone and acamprosate) are underutilised in Australia.

Soft cells and the geometry of seashells

Study suggests a significant association between Genital Gender-Affirming Surgery and reduced psychiatric comorbidities in individuals with Gender Incongruence

Winner of the 2024 Ig Nobel prize for Medicine goes to a Swiss, German and Belgian group for demonstrating that fake medicine that causes painful side-effects can be more effective in patients than fake medicine that does not cause painful side-effects (full-text link in comment).

A new study finds that fast-paced hyperventilation (breathwork) can induce brain states and experiences similar to psychedelics

DdrC, a unique DNA repair factor from D. radiodurans, senses and stabilizes DNA breaks through a novel lesion-recognition mechanism

2023 state of the climate Entering uncharted territory

Palaeontologists have described Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus, a new genus and species of large theropod dinosaur characterised by an extremely developed orbital brow on the postorbital, amongst other features, from the Callovian Balabansai Formation of Kyrgyzstan.

Women who begin relationships with (eventually) physically abusive men suffer large and significant earnings and employment falls immediately upon cohabiting with the abusive partner

Slavery and Jim Crow have persistently adverse effects on African Americans – Black families whose ancestors were enslaved until the Civil War have considerably lower education, income…

Most ChatGPT users think AI models may have 'conscious experiences', study finds

Trump's attacks on elections and voting-by-mail in the US has altered election attitudes among conservatives in other countries – Right-leaning individuals in Canada show greater distrust in voting-by-mail following Trump's false voter fraud claims about mail ballots.

Lizards wave their forelimbs in the air during male-male contests to signal their unwillingness to escalate and attenuate received aggression

Prospective evaluation of the relevance of Epstein–Barr virus antibodies for early detection of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Chinese adults

The Biology of Fatigue

Routine vitamin D testing and supplementation is not recommended for the general population

New study explored the effects of squirting on women’s sexual experiences, ranging from heightened arousal to feelings of humiliation and embarrassment

‘Space hairdryer’ uses shockwaves to regenerate heart cells post-surgery

Xylitol is prothrombotic and associated with cardiovascular risk | European Heart Journal

Strange metal state discovered in hydrogen-rich compound of lanthanum under pressure

Lower subjective social status is associated with increased adiposity and self-reported eating in the absence of hunger due to negative affect among children reporting teasing distress

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