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Studies have shown a persistent gender gap when it comes to wages—disparities that stretch over decades. Past analyses have pointed to various causes for this discrepancy, but often overlooked is how such divides may surface early in life.

New research investigating the impact of alcohol use on mortality in Australia shows that for every additional seven drinks per week someone has, their relative risk of death from alcohol-related cancers rises by 12%. The study of 181,607 participants in the NSW 45 and Up Study showed that the number of deaths caused by alcohol use in Australia overall is substantial.

Wearable devices can identify, differentiate, and predict flare-ups, or the worsening of symptoms and inflammation, in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Mount Sinai researchers have shown in a first-of-its-kind study.

Brief cognitive behavioral interventions that help young people manage aspects of their personality, such as impulsivity, sensation seeking, hopelessness, and anxiety sensitivity, have been shown to reduce teen Substance Use Disorders. The American Journal of Psychiatry published the findings from a new cluster randomized trial involving 31 Canadian high schools and 3,800 students. The study, led by Dr. Patricia Conrod from Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine, showed that when such interventions are delivered to students in the 7th grade they are associated with reduced risk for substance use disorders by the end of high school.

It’s the start of another year and the body mass index (BMI) is being criticized again. This time a Lancet-commissioned group of experts is denouncing it as a diagnostic tool for obesity. They say that doctors should look at the overall health of a patient when diagnosing obesity, not just rely on this one flawed metric.

A new study has uncovered a critical role for the enzyme Glucose-6-phosphatase 2 (G6PC2) in regulating blood sugar levels. The research sheds new light on how this enzyme influences glucagon secretion in pancreatic alpha (α) cells, a process crucial for maintaining healthy blood sugar levels.

Are you a parent or teacher frustrated that the children in your life can’t seem to pay attention when you’re trying to teach them something? You don’t need to be, say psychologists at the University of Toronto.

Within a few days of being born, more than 300,000 Australian babies a year have a spot of their blood analyzed to screen for a range of serious but treatable health conditions.

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick—also called a deer tick—is a risk during spring, summer, and fall. A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while up to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ticks carry the bacteria.

Many physicians are now using algorithms that consider a patient’s sex, like heart disease risk assessment tools, to help with clinical decision-making. Reliance on these algorithms may result in men and women receiving different care or having different eligibility for health care resources, for example, placement on an organ transplant list.