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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For many, neighborhoods that offer children access to better resources, less crime and less violence often result in better opportunities for healthier and more prosperous lives. Indeed, researchers studying the effects of moving to "opportunity neighborhoods" argue that very point and many policymakers have taken notice. However, so far, researchers have only accounted for the neighborhoods…

Microsoft, which is seeking to buy games giant Activision, faces two legal fights in coming weeks with U.S. antitrust enforcers who are determined to stop the $69 billion transaction.Microsoft has pressed for a decision sooner rather than later, noting that the purchase agreement has a termination date of July 18, although such dates can be extended and often are. When AT&T was buying DirecTV in 2015, the companies extended the termination date twice. The first fight will be in federal court in California, beginning…

Bariatric surgery significantly reduces all-cause mortality and death from cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer in patients with severe obesity, according to a 40-year retrospective study published in Obesity. However, the study also found an increased risk of death from chronic liver disease and higher suicide rates among younger post-surgery patients, highlighting the need for comprehensive pre- and post-surgery psychological care.Younger population experiences increased risk of death from suicide and chronic…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain While often large research teams are able to generate more impact, they struggle to reach top-tier journals, finds a new study from the University of Surrey that analyzed data from 1.4 million academic papers. The paper is published in the journal Academy of Management Learning & Education. …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Sexual and substance use education that incorporates knowledge about trauma could improve developmental outcomes among justice-involved Black youth, according to a Rutgers study published in the journal Children and Youth Services Review. "For black adolescents in the justice system, childhood…

For medication-resistant epileptics, surgery is often the only way to stop seizures. However, for those with frontal lobe epilepsy, sometimes surgery doesn’t ensure the seizures stop. A new study has uncovered connections in the brain that go some way to explaining why some frontal lobe surgeries are more successful in stopping seizures long term.As one of the most common neurological diseases, epilepsy affects around 50 million people worldwide. Frontal lobe epilepsy is a common form of epilepsy characterized by brief…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain While the outcomes of institutional racism in our education system have been well documented—Black and American Indian students are half as likely to graduate from college within four years compared to white and Asian students—few people realize how structural racism within educational institutions affects mental health outcomes for students. …

Research shows that drivers rely on self-driving features when they believe the road conditions are easy enough for the car to handle. Credit: Shutterstock In mid-February, Tesla announced the recall of over 350,000 vehicles—more than 20,000 in Canada —due to a problem with its "Full Self-Driving Capability" system. This self-driving feature was found to possibly cause vehicles to misbehave when entering intersections or…

Cardiovascular disease is common worldwide, and the list of risk factors contributing to the condition is well known. According to a new study, aircraft noise should be added as a factor contributing to heart attacks and worsening outcomes.As a form of cardiovascular disease, heart failure caused by a heart attack, known medically as myocardial infarction (MI), is a leading cause of death worldwide.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the US, someone has an MI every 40 seconds. In…

Trends in county-area water infrastructure spending. Data are presented as mean values with 95% confidence intervals. Top panel displays the trends in per cent of county-area budget spent on total expenditures and operational expenditures. Bottom panel displays the trend in per cent of county-areas which contributed any expenditures to water infrastructure construction. Credit: Nature Water (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s44221-022-00007-y…