progscrape: epidemiology

A US study of over 1.3 million people with substance-related emergency care found 84% of adolescents aged 16–18 had at least one cannabis-related encounter, compared with 19% of adults aged 55–64

12 hours ago psychiatryonline.org epidemiology

Newborn survival improves when families receive monetary support

2 days ago sciencenews.org epidemiology

A nationally representative study in Bangladesh found that extreme heat was associated with increased suicide risk, with effects emerging at 28°C and peaking at 35°C

37 hours ago sciencedirect.com epidemiology

Genomic sequencing traced 26 measles cases in Washington State to five separate introductions from South Carolina's outbreak

2 days ago evidence.nejm.org epidemiology washington

Genomic sequencing linked 172 Yersinia infections (Sept 2024–Mar 2025), mostly in France, to a raw cow's-milk cheese, with the outbreak strain found at the cheese factory and in a supplying farm's milking equipment

2 days ago pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov epidemiology

Long COVID studies comparing infected people to untested people may overstate symptoms because of who gets tested

2 days ago pnas.org covid epidemiology

Ontario's measles outbreak hit 2,377 people over nearly a year, and 89% were not vaccinated. Most were kids and teens

5 days ago bmjgroup.com epidemiology

Drug scheduling laws and the emergence of novel synthetic drugs

8 days ago whatsitlike.me epidemiology

A 2022 pneumonic plague outbreak in rural Madagascar caused 21 cases and 12 deaths (57% fatality) over 33 days

7 days ago wwwnc.cdc.gov epidemiology

A Canadian study of over 2 million women found that substance-related emergency visits among mothers rose nearly 5% annually from 2008 to 2024, versus 2% among women without children

8 days ago cmaj.ca canada epidemiology

A new national study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases found hospitalizations for drug use-associated infective endocarditis, a potentially life-threatening heart infection, declined 18% between 2020 and 2022 after years of increases.

8 days ago news.cuanschutz.edu epidemiology

Study finds proposed US policy changes for vaccination through "shared decision making" are projected to result in an 83% increase in childhood HBV infections, and between 50% and 70% of children entering adulthood annually would be susceptible to HBV infection.

16 days ago acpjournals.org epidemiology

Measles cases in kids under 5 jumped 40% worldwide after COVID, from 11.1 million in 2019 to 15.6 million in 2023

13 days ago news.uq.edu.au covid epidemiology

Bird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.

5 days ago propublica.org biology epidemiology

Meta-analysis finds maternal RSV vaccination was 73.6% effective against hospitalization in infants under 6 months, but only 27.1% of 1.3 million US pregnancies were vaccinated in the 2023/24 season

28 days ago thelancet.com epidemiology

Three years after a single RSV vaccination, 60+ year olds were still around 60% less likely to be hospitalized with RSV, down from about 81% in year one; protection against lower respiratory infections fell from 80% to 51% (not significant)

23 days ago link.springer.com epidemiology

A medieval remedy could offer ideas for beating antibiotic resistance

34 days ago sciencenews.org epidemiology

Repeated importations are driving Japan's measles resurgence, spreading among young adults with gaps in their vaccination history

6 days ago wwwnc.cdc.gov epidemiology japan

In Jerusalem neighborhoods where measles vaccine coverage had fallen to about 55%, the measles death rate in young children was about 160 times higher than in the rest of Israel (80.1 vs 0.5 deaths per 100,000).

7 days ago wwwnc.cdc.gov epidemiology vaccine

Hedgehog coronavirus poses little risk of jump to humans

26 days ago pnas.org coronavirus epidemiology

Fiji has had a 12-fold increase in HIV infection cases between 2010 and 2025. Here's why.

37 days ago npr.org epidemiology

Long-term adherence to the recommended ≥150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity per week may help prevent obesity in middle-aged women, study suggests

37 days ago doi.org epidemiology

Tylenol during pregnancy not linked to autism, ADHD, major review finds

37 days ago cidrap.umn.edu autism epidemiology

Screening newborns for congenital cytomegalovirus, the leading nongenetic cause of childhood hearing loss, raised detection 2.5-fold across a 50,438-birth hospital system; 34 infected infants found among 7,491 screened

45 days ago publications.aap.org epidemiology

Dementia needs ‘cancer-style revolution’ in care, report says

49 days ago thetimes.com epidemiology

Blacklegged ticks in Western North Carolina now match Northeast Lyme disease infection rates (~40%), confirming the southern Appalachia expansion of northern vector lineages

37 days ago cdc.gov disease epidemiology

Global disease outbreak maps track healthcare access far more than actual ecology

42 days ago nature.com disease epidemiology

A new study estimates based on donor-derived rabies transmission events that China and the US diagnosed rabies in only 28.7% and 6.1% of rabies decedents, respectively, during the study years.

44 days ago journals.plos.org china epidemiology

Study of over 40,000 people receiving methadone treatment for opioid use disorder found take-home dosing was associated with lower mortality and treatment discontinuation than no take-home dosing, with the greatest benefits when initiated within 5 to 24 weeks after induction.

56 days ago jamanetwork.com epidemiology

A widely proposed pathway from hearing loss to cognitive decline, that poor hearing reduces social activity which in turn harms cognition, did not hold in a six-year study of 10,561 Mexican adults aged 50 and older once education and income were accounted for

2 months ago onlinelibrary.wiley.com epidemiology

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