Tuesday, December 02, 2025
Tuesday, December 02, 2025

A new study reveals that extreme heat significantly affects daily activities, leading people to reduce outdoor time and alter transportation choices. Vulnerable groups, such as low-income individuals without cars, face greater risks, as they are less able to avoid dangerous conditions. The study calls for targeted policy interventions, including shaded public spaces, heat day declarations and urban design improvements, to mitigate the impact of rising temperatures, particularly on the most vulnerable populations.
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The use of circadian-informed lighting, where artificial lighting is synchronised to the natural biological rhythms or a person's 'body-clock', significantly improves quality of sleep and work performance for night shift workers, a major new trial has found. The trial is amongst the first tightly controlled in-laboratory studies to have simultaneously evaluated circadian-lighting effects on markers of body-clock timing, work-shift cognitive performance, and sleep following an abrupt transition to night shift work.
Read more …Light at the end of the tunnel for night shift workers

When it comes to drug pricing, the Trump and Biden-Harris administrations both have some very modest wins to tout.

As director of the Health Outcomes, Policy, and Evidence Synthesis group[1] at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, I teach and study[2] about the ethics of prescription drug prices and the complexities of drug pricing[3] nationally.

Delving into the presidential candidates’ successes on a number of...

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As the climate warms, the southwestern U.S. is increasingly experiencing weather whiplash[1] as the region swings from drought to flooding and back again. As a result, the public is hearing more about little-known infectious diseases, such as valley fever[2].

In May 2024, about 20,000 people attended a music festival in Buena Vista Lake, California. In the months that followed, at least 19 developed valley fever[3], and eight...

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  1. Airdropping vaccines to eliminate canine rabies in Texas – two scientists explain the decades of research behind its success
  2. Covid was like a daily terror attack, doctor tells inquiry
  3. Covid inquiry rejects clinicians’ anonymity plea
  4. AI could predict breast cancer risk via 'zombie cells'
  5. 'Quick' cancer DNA test offers hope for thousands in Wales
  6. Study finds certain MS therapies may not slow disability progression
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