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In residential areas, where a growing number of older people live, first- and last-mile mobility has become a social problem. Demand-responsive transport (DRT) has the potential to address this social problem. DRT is a mode of transportation that dispatches passengers on demand to pick them up and drop them off according to their needs.

An international team including Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Soongsil University, and Sungkyunkwan University has found that Korean adults living alone with both depression and anxiety face a 558% increased risk of suicide. Individuals aged 40 to 64 and men experienced the highest risk.

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body’s smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests.

Being a university student has long been associated with eating instant noodles, taking advantage of pub meal deals and generally living frugally.

Johns Hopkins University researchers have found that nearly all adults identified as having obesity based on body mass index (BMI) also had confirmed excess adiposity.

An analytics-driven “decision framework” that accounts for the socioeconomic and demographic factors of patients can promote more equitable health care delivery and potentially improve chronic disease care outcomes, according to new research co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign business scholar who studies technology adoption in health care. The study is published in the Journal of Operations Management.

There has been a troubling rise in adolescent mental health struggles and suicide rates over the past decade, with a dramatic increase following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This crisis has been accompanied by an increased demand for pediatric inpatient psychiatry units (IPUs) across the United States. However, despite the growing need, which has reached the point of bed shortages, the effectiveness of IPUs on teen mental health outcomes remains understudied.

A new study offers insight into what is happening in our brains when our working memory must use its limited resources to remember multiple things.

Scientists from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the University of Las Vegas, Nevada (UNLV) have uncovered a genetic link between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and a rare genetic condition called myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1).

In a study published in NEJM Catalyst, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai describe how measures to curb opioid overdoses in the general population have compromised a critical cornerstone of palliative care. Opioids are medically necessary analgesics for the relief of moderate to severe pain in patients with cancer and other serious illnesses, such as acute sickle cell crises, and for patients following surgery.