By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
Take a medicine and start feeling a bit off, and it’s easy to assume you’re imagining it. Sometimes you’re not.
It could be a known side-effect – the sort of thing listed on the leaflet in the packaging. Or it could be something known as an adverse drug reaction, or ADR.
The terms get used interchangeably, but they’re not quite the same thing. An ADR is an…
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By Zoe Reed, Research Fellow, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol
You can spend every day surrounded by other people and still feel lonely. You can also spend long periods alone without finding the experience distressing.
That difference may help explain why loneliness affects health differently from social isolation. In a new study, my colleagues and I found evidence that loneliness may contribute to poorer mental health and wellbeing, and to some measures of poorer general health. Social isolation appeared to have a narrower influence, with the clearest evidence involving…
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By Jessica Tipton, Postgraduate researcher, Russian drama translation, University of East Anglia
I was recently party to the world premiere of Russian stand-up comedian Sasha Nezlobin’s show I’m Фine (spelt with a Cyrillic “ф”, pronounced “f”), previewing ahead of a month-long run at the Edinburgh Fringe. The expectant crowd had gathered to support Russia’s answer to Michael McIntyre…
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By Rob Procter, Professor of Social Informatics, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick
AI agents can play an important role in coping with the rise in air traffic – but only if trust in their capabilities is established first.
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By Stephen Pires, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Florida International University
Dylan Spencer, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Georgia Southern University
Juan Del Rio, Adjunct Instructor in International Crime and Justice, Florida International University
Rob T. Guerette, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida International University
Environmental features and geography may be a better predictor of homicides in Latin America than the prevalence of organized crime gangs.
That’s what we found in a recent study that analyzed homicide patterns across Colombian municipalities between 2010 and 2020.
As researchers in place-based criminology,…
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By Ben Rosa, Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan
Contractors affected by affirmative action bans at the state level saw a drop in employee head count but were no less likely to go out of business.
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By Laura K. Gee, Associate Professor of Economics, Tufts University
Kristy Buzard, Associate Professor of Economics and Melvin A. Eggers Faculty Scholar, Syracuse University
Olga Stoddard, Associate Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University
The start of the school year brings a familiar list of responsibilities for parents: buying school supplies, keeping track of forms, coordinating transportation and responding to a steady stream of emails from teachers and administrators.
Although many families strive to share these responsibilities, research has consistently found that mothers tend to shoulder a larger share of the work tied to their kids’ schooling. That includes…
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By Amy Myers Jaffe, Director, Energy, Climate Justice, and Sustainability Lab, and Research Professor, New York University; Tufts University
Cooking gas and diesel fuel are among the oil products whose supply levels have been affected already. Here’s why to expect long-term shortages.
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By Lucy McGowan, Associate Professor of Statistical Sciences, Wake Forest University
The instinct to “do your own research” when it comes to your health is a good one. The challenge often is not lack of information, but the opposite.
People are surrounded by studies, headlines, forums, family and friends, often all speaking at once in different directions and with different levels of reliability. How do you move through this abundance of information without getting lost in it?
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By Aliasger K. Salem, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Iowa
If Spider-Man were real, he could help scientists revolutionize healthcare. Since he’s not, researchers develop creative ways to produce spider silk to study.
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