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Dating apps, loneliness and mental health
Research published earlier this year, drawing on data from more than 26,000 people across 23 studies, confirmed what many had already suspected: people who use dating apps consistently show worse mental health outcomes than those who do not. Higher rates of depression, anxiety, loneliness and psychological distress are all associated with regular dating app use. This does not mean that everyone who uses a dating app will struggle.
Complex Management of a Persistent Gastropleural Fistula With Necrotic Left Lower Lobe of the Lung Following Bariatric Surgery: A Case Report
Specialty Please choose I'm not a medical professional. Allergy and Immunology Anatomy Anesthesiology Biostatistics Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Cardiology Critical Care Dentistry Dermatology Diabetes and Endocrinology Emergency Medicine Epidemiology and Public Health Family Medicine Forensic Medicine Gastroenterology General Practice Genetics Geriatrics Health Policy Hematology HIV/AIDS Hospital-based Medicine I'm not a medical professional.
Interracial love: the untold truth
Perhaps you fell in love and didn't think twice about the cultural differences between you. Or perhaps you knew from the beginning that those differences would matter and chose love anyway. Either way, if you are reading this, chances are you've discovered that being in an interracial relationship comes with its own particular kind of emotional weight. Not because there's anything wrong with you or your relationship. But because the world and often the people closest to us don't always make it easy.
Menopause: breaking the silence across communities
Menopause Menopause is something many women will experience, yet no two journeys are ever quite the same. While it is often described in medical terms, menopause is not just a physical transition – it is deeply emotional, personal, and shaped by the cultural worlds we live in. For women from ethnic communities, this experience can carry additional layers of meaning. Culture, family expectations, and community beliefs can all influence how menopause is understood, expressed, and supported.
OMICmAge quantifies biological age by integrating multi-omics with electronic medical records - Nature Aging
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Abstract Biological aging reflects complex cellular and biochemical processes that can be measured across multiple omic layers. Using routine clinical laboratory data from ~31,000 participants in the Mass General Brigham Biobank, we developed EMRAge, a biomarker of mortality risk that can be broadly recapitulated across electronic medical records.
By Qingwen Chen, Varun B. Dwaraka, Natalia Carreras-Gallo, Jenel F. Armstrong, Raghav Sehgal, M. Austin Argentieri, Anne Richmond, Andrea Aparicio, Kevin Mendez, Yulu Chen, Sofina Begum, Priyadarshini Kachroo, Nicole Prince, Tao Guo, Hannah Went, Aaron E. Lin, Logan Turner, Su H Chu, Rachel Kelly, Scott Weiss, Vadim N. Gladyshev, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Craig Wheelock, Ewy Mathé, Amber Dahlin, Michael J. McGeachie, Riccardo E Marioni, Albert T. Higgins-Chen, Ryan Smith, Jessica Lasky-Su, Tavis Mendez, Nicholas J. W. Rattray
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Life after baby loss
Some readers may find the subject emotionally challenging, and this introduction is offered to help prepare for the personal and reflective material that follows. I encourage you to go gently and to be kind to yourself. If this article evokes some emotions, do reach out to someone for support, whether that is a loved one or someone in a professional setting. Lived experience of miscarriage My miscarriage was not only the loss of a pregnancy, but the loss of the life I had already begun to imagine.
Support, safety, and healing: Counselling and honour-based abuse
The terms “honour crime” or “Honour-Based Abuse” or “izzat” include a variety of crimes of violence (mainly but not exclusively against women), including assault, restrictions on freedom, and, in some cases, extreme violence, where the person is being punished by their family or their community. They are being punished for actually, or allegedly, undermining what the family or community believes to be the correct code of behaviour.
Understanding grief and loss: How counselling can support healing
Bereavement When grief changes everything Grief is something almost everyone will face, yet so many people feel unprepared when it arrives. It can show up in ways that are loud and clear, or in ways that are quiet, slow, or hard to name. Sometimes it settles into the body long before the mind catches up. What becomes clear again and again is this: grief isn’t only about what was lost – it’s about what that loss meant.
Network Analysis Reveals Protein Modules Associated with Childhood Respiratory Diseases
Abstract Background: The first year of life is a period of rapid immune development that can impact health trajectories and the risk of developing respiratory-related diseases, such as asthma, recurrent infections, and eczema. However, the biology underlying subsequent disease development remains unknown.
Metabolite signatures associated with microRNA miR-143-3p serve as drivers of poor lung function trajectories in childhood asthma
Summary Lung function trajectories (LFTs) have been shown to be an important measure of long-term health in asthma. While there is a growing body of metabolomic studies on asthma status and other phenotypes, there are no prospective studies of the relationship between metabolomics and LFTs or their genomic determinants.
Elevated third trimester corticosteroid levels are associated with fewer offspring infections - Scientific Reports
Abstract Respiratory infections are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in early life, and recurrent infections increase the risk of developing chronic diseases. The maternal environment during pregnancy can impact offspring health, but the factors leading to increased infection proneness have not been well characterized during this period. Steroids have been implicated in respiratory health outcomes and may similarly influence infection susceptibility.
Low-frequency maternal novel MYH7 mosaicism mutation in recurrent fetal-onset severe left ventricular noncompaction: a case report
1. Introduction Left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) is a rare inherited cardiomyopathy characterized morphologically by a severely thickened two-layered myocardium, excessive trabeculation of the left ventricle, and deep intertrabecular recesses leading to the left ventricular cavity (1). LVNC has a wide range of phenotypic expressions, ranging from severe prenatal manifestations to asymptomatic presentation in adulthood (2).
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