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Some things may go without saying, but just in case… Belgium’s food agency issued a public health warning as the festive season wrapped up Tuesday: don’t eat your Christmas tree.

More than half of US college students have experienced alcohol-related harms caused by others, according to the first national probability-based survey of such harms conducted in 20 years. The findings, published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Review, shed light on how others’ drinking affects students’ health, academics, and safety.

Extra opioid pain medications after surgeries are a concern because they increase the likelihood of their misuse, so researchers are intent on discovering ways to cut down on the medicines that could be left after recovery from common surgeries.

Autoimmune diseases, in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s own healthy cells and tissues, often include a preclinical stage before diagnosis that’s characterized by mild symptoms or certain antibodies in the blood. However, in some people, these symptoms may resolve before culminating in the full disease stage.

To clarify the visual cues contributing to skin moisture and dryness, a research team conducted several psychophysical experiments to investigate how image manipulation alters visual perceptions of skin moisture.

Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who use an extended-release medication are more likely to continue the treatment and have a lower risk of developing substance use disorder, according to two West Virginia University studies.

In a large-animal model study, researchers have found that heart attack recovery is aided by the injection of heart muscle cell spheroids derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), that overexpress cyclin D2 and are knocked out for human leukocyte antigen classes I and II.

A global study reveals a disturbing rise in early-onset gastric cancer, a disease once predominantly affecting older adults but now increasingly impacting younger populations. This shift in disease patterns, uncovered through a 15-year analysis, calls for urgent reevaluation of global health strategies and targeted interventions.

A recent study published in Synthese challenges the default collection and reliance on ethno-racial data in biomedical research, arguing that these practices often lack scientific or ethical justification. The paper critically examines the widely accepted “fair subject selection” requirement, which mandates proportional representation of racial groups in clinical trials, and suggests that this approach might inadvertently perpetuate scientific inaccuracies and social stereotypes.

The typical cost of developing new medications may not be as high as generally believed, with a few ultra-costly medications skewing public discussions about the cost of pharmaceutical research and development, according to a new RAND study.