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Middle-school aged children who use the internet, social media or video games recreationally for more than an hour each day during the school week have significantly lower grades and test scores, according to a study from the Center for Gambling Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

Researchers found that risk of subsequent moderate or worse hearing loss was up to 40 percent higher in study participants with osteoporosis or LBD.

Hospital readmissions have been identified as a major contributor to health care costs. About 27% of adult 30-day readmissions are estimated to be preventable. A clinical trial pairing community health workers with inpatients found that fewer intervention group participants were readmitted within 30 days than were control group participants.

Absentee property ownership in many small college football towns has a negative impact on permanent residents of those communities, according to a study by a Georgia State University geosciences researcher. The research is the first known attempt to quantify and map local geographies of gameday home investments.

A study shows that giving the public more opportunities to converse with school board leaders could increase civic engagement and lead to more public trust in officials -- especially among low-income groups and people of color.

A new paper describes how a process called "designing for value" was used to re-imagine the referral process of patients from primary care doctors to psychiatrists in a health system anchored by a major academic medical center.

Researchers have now found no association of hair relaxer use with breast cancer risk overall in Black women, but they did find some evidence that heavy use of lye-containing hair relaxers may be associated with increased risk of ER+ breast cancer.

While many of the scientific studies to date have focused on repetitive head trauma leading to the development of abnormal tau, a new study provides insights into white matter changes that may offer new targets for therapies.

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have developed a novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to predict the grade of IFTA, a known structural correlate of progressive and chronic kidney disease.

New developments in recreational fishing technology--from the use of aerial drones and social media scouting reports to advances in hook design--are creating challenges for fisheries management and effective policy making, according to a new study co-authored by University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher Andy Danylchuk.

One of the first studies to examine telomere length (TL) in childhood finds that the initial setting of TL during prenatal development and in the first years of life may determine one's TL throughout childhood and potentially even into adulthood or older age. The study also finds that TL decreases most rapidly from birth to age 3, followed by a period of maintenance into the pre-puberty period, although it was sometimes seen to lengthen.

It has been documented over hundreds of years that various electromagnetic anomalies occur during a few weeks before the occurrence of a large earthquake. These electromagnetic anomalies are variations that appear in telluric current, geomagnetism, electromagnetic waves etc. before the earthquake.

City, University of London's Dr Martin White, explores a novel organic Rankine system for converting waste heat into electricity.

For many diseases, overweight and obesity are risk factors. But now a study shows that a higher BMI may be linked to higher survival rates in patients hospitalized for severe bacterial infections.

Forensic archaeologists and anthropologists from Cranfield University have started to recover the bodies of victims executed by the Franco regime at the end of the Spanish Civil War during an excavation in the Ciudad Real region of Spain.

The study shows that a local oxygen level depletion makes the brain less resistant to the disease's progression. This underscores the importance of a healthy lifestyle in preventing damage from Alzheimer's disease.

King's College London has found that people on a social media suicide support forum are most likely to post to the site during the early hours of Monday morning.

An increased connectivity in the brain between the auditory cortex and the motor control areas related to the face, mouth and throat has been discovered in people with misophonia by researchers led by Newcastle University, UK. Their hatred of "trigger noises" can lead to an extreme reaction including anger and disgust. This is the first time such a connection in the brain has been identified and it offers a new path for therapies.

Researchers have used an advanced high-spatial resolution isotope mapping technique called 'SIMS' (secondary ion mass spectrometry) to chart for the first time how long it takes for labelled carbon produced by microalgae to be transferred to the bacteria they are growing with.

Researchers reported a Bismacrocycle consisted of all phenylene units and demonstrating a unique Siamese-twin 3D structure similar to the number 8, shedding light on photoelectric and supramolecular material synthesis.