Public Health Sciences

Background: In 2014, the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) reported that the highest prevalence of symptoms of severe asthma was found i [...]

Importance Newer antiobesity medications lead to greater weight loss and lower cardiometabolic risks. However, the high costs of these medications have raised policy que [...]

This study was to survey the relationship between semen values and demographics, comorbidities, and recreational substance use in a large cohort of adult men at the Unive [...]

Medicare home health coverage is an important resource for Medicare beneficiaries requiring health care at home. However, there have been changes in the United States hea [...]

Importance: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) disproportionately affects Black women. Immunotherapy improves outcomes in early-stage TNBC (esTNBC) and metastatic TN [...]

Background: Low birthweight, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and perinatal mortality have been associated with air pollution. However, intervention studies that [...]

Importance: In 2024, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) reversed a 2009 policy recommending only females aged 50 to 74 years complete a biennial mammogram. [...]

Researchers in the biological and behavioural sciences are increasingly conducting collaborative, multi-sited projects to address how phenomena vary across ecologies. The [...]

Importance: As US health care systems shift to human papillomavirus (HPV)–based cervical cancer screening, more patients are receiving positive high-risk non–16/18 gen [...]

One way to reduce the time of conducting optimization studies is to evaluate designs in parallel rather than just one-at-a-time. For expensive-to-evaluate black-boxes, ba [...]

Background: DNA methylation (DNAm) data from human samples has been leveraged to develop “epigenetic clock” algorithms that predict age and other aging-related phenoty [...]

Designing and carrying out a controlled human infection (CHI) model for hepatitis C virus (HCV) is critical for vaccine development. However, key considerations for a CHI [...]

Importance: Prior studies have shown that the benefits, harms, and costs of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening at older ages are associated with a patient’s sex, health [...]

Staffing is an important indicator of nursing home quality and resident health outcomes. The Five-Star staffing ratings in Nursing Home Care Compare, the report card publ [...]

Background: The vast majority of genes in the genome are multi-exonic, and are alternatively spliced during transcription, resulting in multiple isoforms for each gene. F [...]

Importance: Opioid-related overdose accounts for almost 80 000 deaths annually across the US. People who use drugs leaving jails are at particularly high risk for opio [...]

Background: Disparities in breast cancer mortality persist despite improvements in screening and therapeutic options. Understanding the impact of social determinants o [...]

Stepped-care obesity treatments aim to improve efficiency by early identification of non-responders and adjusting interventions but lack validated models. We trained a ra [...]

Introduction: Up to 20% of older adults in the United States have mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and about one-third of people with MCI are predicted to transition t [...]

Background: Emerging research has suggested a link between ambient temperature and mental and neurological conditions such as depression and dementia. This systematic [...]

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Background: Household air pollution (HAP) exposure has been linked to adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Objectives: A randomized controlled trial was undertaken in Ib [...]

Background: Black/African American women with breast cancer have a disproportionately higher risk of mortality compared to other race groups, although their overall in [...]

Introduction: Communities with low socioeconomic status have disproportionately high rates of tobacco use, and community health workers (CHWs) have an increasing role [...]

Purpose: To assess household air pollution levels in urban Chicago households and examine how socioeconomic factors influence these levels. Methods: We deployed wireless [...]