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Chronic pain—or pain that lasts at least three months—is closely intertwined with depression. Individuals living with pain’s persistent symptoms may be up to four times more likely to experience depression, research shows.

Many Americans were relieved when the Supreme Court left the Affordable Care Act in place following the law’s third major legal challenge in June 2021. This decision permitted widely supported policies to continue, such as ensuring health coverage regardless of preexisting conditions, allowing coverage for dependents up to age 26 on their parents’ plan, and removing annual and lifetime benefit limits.

“Harm reduction” interventions for substance use—measures like needle exchange programs and methadone distribution that aim to reduce the adverse effects of substance use, rather than punish or prevent it—have been repeatedly shown to lower the risk of overdoses, mortality, and drug-related crime. But in many communities in rural America, there is a stigma attached to these approaches. Consequently, policymakers and health professionals in some communities have hesitated to implement or recommend harm-reduction measures, fearing backlash.

An international team of researchers at the University of Manchester, Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions has discovered a natural mechanism that protects the heart from heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), a serious condition in need of effective treatment.

What do bra fitting and body armor testing have in common? Andrea Porter’s dissertation. When Porter took a sabbatical from her career to earn her Ph.D. in multidisciplinary engineering, she never imagined she would become a professional bra fitter, much less out on the shooting range, testing body armor. But her ergonomics research took her to both—optimizing armor comfort and investigating armor protection for women.

Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects almost all dimensions of the health of women and girls, according to a new study published today from the World Health Organization (WHO) together with the United Nations’ Human Reproduction Program (HRP). Health complications of the practice can be severe and life-long, causing both mental and physical health risks.

New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has identified porcupine inhibition—a strategy that blocks a key bone-related signaling pathway (Wnt)—as a promising pharmacological treatment for severe sclerosteosis.

Smartphones are changing the way people manage their health—but when it comes to heart disease in India, app stores are lagging far behind. Despite heart disease being the country’s leading cause of death, accounting for more than 28% of all fatalities, a new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research shows that only a tiny fraction of more than 200,000 health-related apps available in India actually addresses this urgent health issue.

Various tests—ranging from a tape measure to sophisticated imaging technology—show only low to moderate agreement in diagnosing breast cancer-related lymphedema (BRCL), reports a study in Rehabilitation Oncology.

In popular culture, dads are stoic, sensitive and strong. So powerful is the mystique of the happy dad that celebrities, joke books—even hard seltzers—carry the label.