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Study of over 40,000 people receiving methadone treatment for opioid use disorder found take-home dosing was associated with lower mortality and treatment discontinuation than no take-home dosing, with the greatest benefits when initiated within 5 to 24 weeks after induction.

A widely proposed pathway from hearing loss to cognitive decline, that poor hearing reduces social activity which in turn harms cognition, did not hold in a six-year study of 10,561 Mexican adults aged 50 and older once education and income were accounted for

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Study estimates only 7% of human rabies cases in the United States are diagnosed

Congo begins Ebola vaccinations to fight country’s worst outbreak in history, health minister says

Study finds alpha-gal syndrome can cause severe allergic reactions to blood transfusions for some

CDC: Persistent low-level transmission of clade IIb monkeypox virus (MPXV) in the United States suggests a likely transition toward endemic circulation.

'Natural Protection From Asthma And Allergies': Scientists Isolate Bacteria Behind The Immune System Farm Effect

Researchers probing the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study found young kids who drank 100% juices multiple times per day had a 25 percent higher risk of asthma compared to kids who consumed those beverages less than twice per week.

A single US measles outbreak can cost millions of dollars, study estimates

A Swedish study found autism diagnoses rose by around 800% from 2001 to 2020, while the proportion with intellectual disability fell from 55.8% to 6.7%, suggesting a substantial broadening of the diagnosed autistic phenotype

No link between MMR vaccination before age 2 and autism, large US study suggests

In a retrospective cohort of 107,505 preterm infants (median gestational age 30 weeks [IQR, 27-32]), probiotic-associated sepsis proved exceedingly rare

Same-day coadministration of COVID-19 and influenza vaccines was not associated with an increased risk for adverse events in 3 updated-formulation periods

Among Mexican-origin adults aged 74 and older, 5-year survival was higher in Mexico than in the United States at every level of illness, including 40.9% versus 36.6% among those with both diabetes and dementia and 77.5% versus 73.3% among those with neither

After lab study finds interspecies spread of CWD prions, experts debate significance for humans

New study tracking 1,600 individuals over 24 years finds frailty accelerates the onset of dementia by 2–3 years

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria increasingly leaving children vulnerable to common infections

Older Mexican Americans with both pain and depressive symptoms scored about 4 points lower on a 30-point cognitive test than those with pain alone, but their cognition did not decline any faster over six years…

Anxiety, depression, insomnia and substance use disorders became more common from 2014 to 2023 among more than 1 million people with chronic low back pain…

Newborns immunized against RSV also had a 36% lower risk of invasive pneumococcal disease.

Nitrate pollution of drinking water linked to preterm birth: new New Zealand study

Analysis of the 2026 MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak confirms 13 cases of Andes orthohantavirus (23% case fatality)

New modelling strongly suggests the first smallpox epidemic among Indigenous Australians originated from the British outpost in Sydney and might have killed as many as 220,000 Aboriginal people

Life expectancy at age 50 for US stroke survivors rose about 3 years between the late 1990s and late 2010s — nearly triple the gain in the general population — but survivors still live roughly 10 years less…

New research looking at 3,734 individuals over ten years in the US-based Health and Retirement Study estimates that roughly 1 in 5 dementia cases could potentially have been averted if everyone had stayed in the normal weight range.

New study finds central London's low-emission zones are linked to significant drops in emergency hospital admissions for adults, including a 9.3% reduction in yearly trends for cardiovascular disease

Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

Despite CDC and FDA warnings about overdose, fall, and fracture risk, the share of Medicare patients on long-term opioids also prescribed the nerve-pain drugs gabapentin or pregabalin held steady near 1 in 4 from 2017 to 2022…

Flu viruses spread most easily when air is either very dry or very humid, explaining why outbreaks surge during cold winters in the US but spike during rainy seasons in the tropics

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