Acceptability, Relevance, and Short-Term Outcomes of the STAC-T Bullying Bystander App: Feasibility Quantitative Study
JMIR Form Res. 2025 Nov 18;9:e76830. doi: 10.2196/76830. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Bullying is a significant public health issue, with approximately 25% of middle school students reporting being a target of bullying in the past year. Students who are targets of bullying or witness bullying are at high risk for negative mental health outcomes, including depression and […]
New Long-Read Genetic Test Enables Faster and More Comprehensive Diagnosis of Rare Diseases
A newly implemented genetic testing approach is now being used in clinical practice to support the diagnosis of rare diseases. This method is designed for large-scale clinical use and offers faster and more comprehensive diagnostic results compared with currently used methods. It has the potential to simplify the diagnostic process by replacing multiple existing diagnostic […]
Experts Warn: Flu Mutation Could Bring the Worst Season in a Decade
Flu occurs every winter; however, this year the trend is unusually early and concerning. One of the seasonal flu viruses suddenly mutated during the summer, enabling it to evade parts of our immune defenses and triggering a flu season more than a month ahead of schedule. This mutated virus is more severe, according to the […]
Hydralazine-Mediated ADO Blockade Restores Vascular Signaling and Induces Senescence in Glioblastoma
Hydralazine (HYZ) is one of the oldest FDA-approved vasodilators and has been used for more than 70 years to treat hypertensive crises and preeclampsia. Despite its long history, its primary molecular target and mechanisms of action have remained unclear. Pleiotropic physiological effects of HYZ are associated with significant side effects like lupus-like autoimmune syndrome, which […]
How Healthcare Providers Can Manage Multi-Facility Credentialing
Managing provider credentials across multiple healthcare facilities is a complex, time-sensitive task. Compliance teams have a lot of work to do because each location has different rules for licensing, documentation, and renewal cycles. Healthcare organizations run the risk of administrative bottlenecks, compliance failures, and even interruptions in patient care if they don’t have a streamlined […]
A Framework for Fitness-for-Purpose and Reuse in Computational Phenotyping
Computational phenotyping is a process to detect patient cohorts from electronic health records (EHRs) and serves as a foundation for clinical research, population health assessment, and decision support. The rapid proliferation of phenotyping algorithms for the same conditions has created major challenges for researchers to choose or reuse existing definitions. Many algorithms labelled under the […]
Spheroid Stem Cell Therapy: A Breakthrough for Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures
Osteoporotic vertebral fractures (OVFs) are the most common type of fragile fracture and can lead to chronic back pain, reduced daily functioning, and a lower overall quality of life if left untreated. Although complex cases may require surgical intervention, challenges such as loss of correction and implant failure persist, and no universally accepted standard procedure […]
The Hidden Power of Uric Acid Nanocrystals in Reptiles
Excess nitrogen from the breakdown of purine and protein is excreted as uric acid, urea, or ammonia. Aquatic animals primarily release ammonia, mammals mainly excrete urea, while birds and reptiles eliminate the poorly soluble uric acid in the solid form as urates. In humans, decreased uricase enzyme activity leads to higher levels of uric acid, […]
Effect of the FoodSwitch application on type 2 diabetes in Sweden: a study protocol for the randomised controlled DIgitAl diabeTES Treatment – the Healthy Eating, heaLthy Patients trial (DIATEST-HELP)
BMJ Open. 2025 Nov 16;15(11):e110141. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-110141. ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: A healthy diet improves glycaemic control and reduces cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, access to dietitians is limited. Several countries have implemented mandatory interpretive front-of-pack labelling to guide consumers towards healthier food choices, but Sweden has not. Smartphone applications may offer an alternative […]
Postfeminist Healthism: Understanding the Gendering of Healthism Using Menstrual Tracking Apps as an Example
Sociol Health Illn. 2025 Nov;47(8):e70116. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.70116. ABSTRACT ‘Postfeminist healthism’ offers an essential framework for understanding how healthism is gendered. In this article, we describe and advance the concept of postfeminist sensibility and its synergistic alignments with healthism. We then consider how postfeminist healthism operates as a subjectifying force for the millions of girls, women, […]
