Studies and Analyses

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The lingering clouds

A new study reveals how pollution causes thunderstorms to leave behind larger, deeper, longer lasting clouds. Appearing in the Proceedings of the National…

Researchers have a nose for how probiotics could affect hay fever

However, it did not lead to significant changes in hay fever symptoms, although this challenge test may not have accurately represented natural allergen…

Electronic cigarettes: New route to smoking addiction for adolescents

Now, in the first study of its kind, UC San Francisco researchers are reporting that, at the point in time they studied, youth using e-cigarettes were more…

ADHD linked to social and economic disadvantage

A team led by the University of Exeter Medical School analysed data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a database of more than 19,500 UK children born between…

Graphic warning labels on cigarette packages reduce smoking rates

The Canadian labels led to a 2.9 to 4.7 percentage point drop in smoking rates — which would mean 5.3 to 8.6 million fewer smokers in the U.S. if the same…

First large-scale PheWAS study using EMRs provides systematic method to discover new disease association

Traditional genetic studies start with one phenotype and look at one or many genotypes, PheWAS does the inverse by looking at many diseases for one genetic…

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