Health and Nutrition
College students who use more cannabis are less willing to share it, and less likely to use it with friends
Cannabis is often a group activity in college, but the pattern looks different among heavier users. Students who used more often shared less in a hypothetical sharing task and wer…
Online meat-shaming may do little to change minds, new research suggests
Telling someone online that they eat meat because they don’t care about the planet tends to backfire into defensiveness rather than persuasion. The same moral criticism from a str…
How voters feel about trans rights and abortion access will soon be put to the test
How do voters feel about trans students participating in school sports teams? Or abortion access? The U.S. is about to find out.
STAT+: Dana-Farber, Beth Israel to begin construction of new $1.68 billion cancer hospital
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Lahey Health are starting work on a $1.68 billion cancer hospital in Boston, marking a new phase in their competition with Mass Genera…
Fridge or not? What’s the best way to store bread?
Our experts have some airtight advice on stopping your loaf from going stale – and even freshening it up again – but whatever you do, keep it out of the fridgeWhat’s the best way …
How chronic drinking masks the brain’s hidden scars from childhood trauma
Childhood trauma leaves a physical mark on the brain's structure, but heavy drinking might hide the evidence. A new brain imaging study reveals how alcohol use disorder can overwr…
They took a robot baby home for the weekend. By Monday, their testosterone responded differently
Childless couples who cared for a lifelike baby doll showed no testosterone change at first, but after a weekend with the doll at home, men’s and women’s levels fell by about 9 to…
UK government failures led to Covid spreading ‘like wildfire’ in care homes, inquiry finds
Inquiry chair says failure to advise care homes to isolate people discharged from hospital was ‘significant oversight’• UK politics live – latest updatesThe care sector was “an af…
STAT+: Launch prices for new medicines dipped slightly last year but remain high, analysis finds
The median net price for 202 newly launched medicines rose by 35%, to $257,000 last year from $173,000 in 2022.
A bigger paycheck tends to come with personality changes, according to a large-scale analysis of psychology research
A meta-analysis of 11 long-running studies covering up to 134,515 workers found that rising pay tended to precede small gains in conscientiousness and emotional stability, along w…
Opinion: Resident physicians may lose some of their most important work hour protections
“It is important to create barriers between high intensity shifts with physical, intellectual, and emotional burden to avoid burnout” in residents, writes Arifeen Rahman.
STAT+: The key health care ballot measures we’re watching in the midterms
State fights over issues like transgender rights and Medicaid offer clues to where Americans stand on contentious health matters.
Sami Tamimi’s recipes for lamb meatballs with spinach and chickpea stew, and red rice
Serve this warm and juicy meatball sabanekh with Iraqi tomato rice for a comforting meal that’s made to be sharedThis is the kind of meal I love for its generosity and simplicity.…
Public support for founding principles of NHS is falling across UK population
Rise in economic hardship and changes in attitudes towards migration could explain drop in support, experts sayPublic support for the NHS’s founding principles – that it is free t…
The Ebola crisis is far outpacing the response, Congo's IRC director says
Health workers battling the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo are hindered by lack of data, budget cuts and a fearful community.
New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests
System can estimate a person’s biological age and predict chances of cancer survival from a single photographDoctors have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can predic…
Are your bones brittle? If they were, how would you know? (To men: this goes for you too) | Ranjana Srivastava
Assessing osteoporosis risk requires more than a scan, which is why a thorough conversation with a doctor is essential“Doctor, how could I get a fracture from sliding on the floor…
People who are more considerate of others show less “me first” bias in quick decisions
People usually recognize their own belongings faster than someone else’s, even when the items are just pens and pencils. A study found this self-bias was weaker among people who w…
People with darker personalities tend to prefer partners like themselves, study suggests
Why are some people drawn to manipulative or even violent partners? In a study of 400 Brazilian adults, those with darker personality traits tended to rate similar traits as more …
Trump orders creation of NIH division, task force on women’s health
Melania Trump says a new research and policy initiative will set “a new standard for women’s health.”
Opinion: I was a Theranos whistleblower. In ‘You Can See Everything,’ Elizabeth Holmes is still lying
A more accurate name would be “You Can See Everything That We Chose To Point The Camera At,”Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz writes.
Funding social care is a collective responsibility | Letters
Roger Steer says the solution is to adopt the NHS model, Janet Dubé suggests an audit, while Sally Byers says language that respects people living with dementia is crucialPolly To…
Jim Churm obituary
My father, Jim Churm, who has died aged 102, was a D-day veteran and former Royal Navy medic; he later enjoyed a long career in nursing and physiotherapy.Jim joined the navy as an…
Your body’s state may shape whether your best ideas are verbal or visual
Not all creativity may draw on the same bodily state. In a study that tracked students’ hearts for five days, calmer physiological states went with more original drawings but less…