Heavy use of marijuana by United States teens and young adults with mood disorders – such as depression and bipolar disorder – is linked to an increased risk of...
October 28th, 2020The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has expanded how it defines a “close contact” with COVID-19 following new evidence, writes MedicalBrief....
Australian research has found higher consumption of cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts and cabbage, is associated with less extensive blood...Harm Reduction
Some smokers rationalise continuing to smoke because of lower body weight often associated with the habit. However, Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators...Research Issues
Results from the first studies designed to determine how widely the coronavirus has spread in communities have started to trickle in, drawing immense attention. Stat...
April 1st, 2020
A volunteer team centred at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has designed and prototyped a low-cost portable mechanical ventilator for use in mass casualty...
March 4th, 2020
The World Health Organisation has praised the "early and robust" control measures that appear to have curbed COVID-19 in China, writes MedicalBrief. But some experts...
Controversially, the World Health Organisation has decided that while the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo - with new cases this week in Uganda - does...
June 5th, 2019Extroversion in the workplace was found to be linked with a few key advantages, found a University of Toronto study.
"There's been much debate in popular culture...
