Using longitudinal data on more than 370 000 older Japanese adults, we found that living in constituencies represented by pro-tobacco legislators was associated with higher smoking prevalence. The ...

Hypertension is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the most common cause of death worldwide. Less than half the people with high blood pressure are aware of their diagnosis, and only ...

Guwahati have developed a predictive framework that has identified 492 locations where glacial lakes are likely to form in the ...

Introduction Cerebral palsy (CP) is a non-progressive condition involving movement and muscle tone difficulties due to injury to the developing brain. Most cases arise around birth, but a smaller ...

Machine learning for health data science, fuelled by proliferation of data and reduced computational costs, has garnered ...

In the study Making It Look Green: Big Data Analytics, External Pressure, and Corporate Greenwashing, published in the journal Sustainability, researchers find that firms with stronger big data ...

Getting enough sleep may be more important for heart health than many busy professionals realize. A new multicenter study ...

A new scientific review challenges the headline-grabbing claim that Yellowstone’s returning wolves triggered one of the strongest trophic cascades on Earth. Researchers found that the reported 1,500% ...

Binge drinking is defined as more than five drinks for men, and more than four for women, on a single occasion over the course of a couple of hours, the good folks at the Orange County Health Care ...

The findings carry particular weight in Sub-Saharan Africa, where financial inclusion levels have historically been low and where large segments of the population operate outside formal banking ...

The purpose of this note is to help mainstream fiscal multipliers in PFRs. It aims to provide guidance for estimating fiscal ...