Is it time to redefine youth participation in sport?
Image credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Australian youth sport needs fundamental reform if it is to re-engage those who leave the sport and encourage effective participation and greater inclusion and diversity, say researchers at Flinders University. The study “(Re)defining youth sport…
Global machine learning competition advances wearable technology for Parkinson’s disease
Percent freezing time as a function of time-of-day model estimate using everyday data from freezer and non-freezer units. Credit: Nature communication (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49027-0 Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at TAU invited the international community of…
Ugandan women’s autonomy is key to safer sex, say researchers
Image credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Ugandan women’s ability to negotiate the terms and timing of sexual intercourse, such as refusing sex and asking their partner to use condoms, is key to avoiding several reproductive health outcomes, say experts at the…
Research improves assessment of stroke risk in women
Temporal trends of the continuous net reclassification index (Panel A), the category-based net reclassification index (Panel B), the integrated discrimination improvement (Panel C), and the C-statistic of the proportional hazards models (Panel D). Image credit: The Lancet Regional Health –…
There’s been a change in the potential sale of these Miami-area hospitals: What you should know
Image credit: CC0 Public Domain The possible sale of Palmetto General, North Shore Medical Center and other Florida hospitals has been postponed. Steward Health Care System has again pushed back the deadline and sale hearings for all of its hospitals…
Work-related stress can increase the risk of irregular heart rhythm
Image credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Work-related stress caused by workload and an imbalance between effort and reward received may increase the risk of atrial fibrillation, according to a new study published in Journal of the American Heart Association. Atrial fibrillation,…
Many doctors underestimate the pain of the IUD for women – the CDC wants to change that
Many women know that having an IUD inserted into their womb can be an extremely painful experience, but new government guidance published on Thursday could soon make the experience less painful for many. For the first time, updated recommendations from…
