Health

Study results published in Pediatrics showed that adverse social determinants of health (SDOH) were significantly associated with increased at-risk rates (ARRs) of pediatric asthma morbidity and that these ARRs varied widely across census tracts in Washington, DC. Researchers aimed to evaluate the associations between pediatric asthma morbidity and SDOH in the different census tracts using ...

Using CRC-specific mortality data from 3,036 U.S. counties from 1999 to 2019, researchers at the Lerner Research Institute and the Center for Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer at Cleveland Clinic categorized patients by age at diagnosis and adjusted for young-onset CRC risk factors and prognostic indicators. They identified new young-onset CRC mortality hot spots in the Midwest ...

Investigadores de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) detectaron la influencia del medio ambiente en la distribución de parasitosis intestinales y estimaron que un calentamiento global hará proliferar esa enfermedad y su dispersión. Para el estudio utilizan el Sistema de Información Geográfica y sensores remotos que les permiten monitorear a distancia el riesgo de ...

Because the yellow fever mosquito is the primary vector of human diseases like yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, figuring out how far the mosquito usually travels is an important data point for managing it. In a meta-analysis published May 31 in the Journal of Medical Entomology, researchers from the University of Arizona determined an ...