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Behavioural scienceAlcohol and drug use new
Same naloxone increase is projected to cut overdose deaths unevenly across six counties
A simulation calibrated to six Pennsylvania counties projected that the same 30% rise in naloxone distribution would cut 2029 overdose deaths by 70% in Allegheny but 11% in Erie.
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Health todayCancer confirms
Cancer risk in treated HIV followed age and smoking, not immune status
Among 7507 people with HIV on antiretroviral therapy, 219 cancers occurred over a median 5.6 years, with older age and current smoking associated with risk but immune markers not.
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Behavioural scienceSmoking and vaping refines
Illicit cigarettes rose from 8.5% to 20.4% in eight Mexican cities by 2023
In the eight Mexican cities surveyed in both years, illicit cigarettes rose from 8.5% of discarded packs in 2017 to 20.4% in 2023.
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Behavioural scienceInfection and pandemics confirms
RSV hospitalisations in older Brazilians rose after 2020, with 21-31% dying in hospital
Recorded hospitalisations for RSV among Brazilians aged 60 and over rose from under 1 to over 15 per 100,000 between 2013 and 2024, with the sharpest rise after 2020.
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Behavioural scienceInfection and pandemics refines
Scotland's strep A surge brought no new variant of the dominant strain
Scottish national surveillance of 3,408 invasive strep A infections found the late-2022 surge coincided with influenza and RSV, with isolates of the dominant strain type unchanged from before the pandemic.
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Behavioural scienceDiet, exercise and sleep refines
Adolescent movement behaviours explained 2.0 points of a 6.9-point CVD risk gap
In 6,608 US adolescents followed for over two decades, the 6.9 percentage-point gap in predicted 30-year cardiovascular risk by parental education fell to 4.9 points in a scenario removing all unhealthy physical activity, screen time and sleep, and the relative gap was unchanged.
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Behavioural scienceSocial connection new
Enriched Head Start preschool improved 7 of 11 well-being measures by age 21
Adding intensive social-emotional and language support to Head Start classrooms improved 7 of 11 well-being measures at ages 21 to 22, in a randomised trial of 356 children.
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Behavioural scienceAdherence and persistence confirms
Most US adults starting a GLP-1 obesity drug stop within the year
Among 201,229 insured US adults with obesity and no diabetes starting a GLP-1 drug, 30.7% stayed on it for most of the following year, as did 20.3% of paediatric patients.
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Behavioural scienceSocial connection new
Weaker social ties before surgery are linked to early death and non-home discharge
Patients with weaker social connection before surgery had 1.50 times the odds of early postoperative death and 1.95 times the odds of being discharged somewhere other than home.
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Behavioural scienceInfection and pandemics confirms
Infant RSV hospitalisations fell two thirds in Quebec's first nirsevimab season
In Quebec's first season of offering nirsevimab to all infants, hospitalisations with a positive RSV test in those aged 0-5 months fell by 66%, and bronchiolitis emergency visits by 35%.
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Behavioural scienceSocial connection new
Socioeconomic circumstances track the gap between loneliness and contact in older adults
In 8,164 English adults aged 60 and over followed from 2014 to 2019, personal and area circumstances both tracked how lonely people felt for the contact they had.
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Behavioural scienceSmoking and vaping refines
Power to Quit campaign coincided with more quit attempts but no change in success
A pre/post evaluation of England's Power to Quit mass media campaign found quit attempts rose from 48.4% to 52.3% and use of digital support from 16.0% to 18.4%, both with confidence intervals spanning no effect, and no clear change in quit success.
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