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Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. Although effective preventive treatments exist, these measures are often underutilized, in part because people don’t know they’re at risk of CAD until it’s too late.

The persuasive power of social networks is immense, but not limitless, according to Cornell research published in the journal Health Economics. “Social Connections and COVID-19 Vaccination” showed that vaccine preferences, based on the COVID experience in the United States, proved quite insensitive to persuasion, even through friendship networks.

Most people have never heard of Lynch Syndrome, but approximately one million Americans have inherited genes that cause the condition, which significantly raises the risk of developing several types of cancers, including colon cancer. Frequent screening can detect many of these cancers early, when they’re easier to treat, yet only one in two people with Lynch Syndrome know they have the condition.

Florey researchers, in collaboration with practicing clinicians who routinely care for heart surgery patients, have developed a world-first animal model to understand how cardiac surgery requiring the use of a heart-lung machine causes injury to the kidneys.

Around 57 million people worldwide have dementia. While most cases of dementia are diagnosed in older adults, about 7% of cases occur in people under 65. This number may be even higher as young-onset dementia continues to be under-recognized. This means many people may be missing out on the support they need.

Disabled people encounter all kinds of barriers to accessing health care—and not simply because some face significant mobility challenges.

Aotearoa New Zealand has embraced self-tests for cervical screening with a University of Otago–Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study proving the method’s feasibility.

At any given time, about 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting to become kidney transplant recipients. Roughly one-fifth of those get a new kidney each year, but others die while waiting. In short, the demand for kidneys makes it important to think about how we use the limited supply.

A vaccine under development at the University at Buffalo has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu.

Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) have successfully employed an algorithm to identify potential mutations which increase disease risk in the noncoding regions of our DNA, which make up the vast majority of the human genome.