PRESS-NEWS.org - Press Release Distribution
PRESS RELEASES DISTRIBUTION

Canada needs to support health research at home and abroad

2025-03-31
(Press-News.org) In the face of major changes to federal policy and funding in the United States, Canada should support Canadian researchers with adequate funding to ensure long-term research in health and science, argue authors in two articles published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

“As the US stands on the brink of tearing down its exemplary system for covering the full costs of research, Canada, with its flawed federal system for indirect costs, should heed the recent commissioned science policy report and a chorus of advocacy calling for an enhanced indirect cost system,” writes Dr. William Ghali, vice-president research, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250406. 

This means overhauling the federal Research Support Fund, which supports indirect research costs through institutions like universities.  

In addition to shoring up funding support at home, Canada can play a key role in helping shape a new World Health Organization (WHO) in the wake of the abrupt US withdrawal, “pushing for and shaping a WHO that can function independently of any single capricious member state,” writes Dr. Kirsten Patrick, editor-in-chief, CMAJhttps://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250418. “Canada should also increase its contributions to the WHO and to global health aid at this time.” 

She warns that Canada needs to commit to supporting high-quality scientific research. This would include adequate funding, timely sharing of health data between provinces — deidentified at the patient level — to ensure we can share up-to-date disease trends with international partners.  

“Reliable North American health data that originate from Canada are more important than they have ever been. Now is the time to fund Canadian health researchers properly and to support them to share their work, publish in reputable journals, and collaborate internationally,” Dr. Patrick concludes.  

END


ELSE PRESS RELEASES FROM THIS DATE:

Cannabis use disorder among insured pregnant women in the US between 2015-2020

2025-03-31
Cannabis use has been increasing during pregnancy, according to researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Previous research has observed that past-month cannabis use has more than tripled among pregnant women in the U.S. from 2002-2020 with self-reported cannabis use rising from 1.5 percent to 5.4 percent over the 18 years of tracking data. The findings are published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Medical guidelines recommend that pregnant women abstain from cannabis because of its link to an increased risk of adverse maternal ...

Education system needs overhaul to support school anxiety, psychologists say

2025-03-30
The UK education system must urgently change to be more understanding of school ‘refusers’, as returning to school might not be the right outcome for some children, psychologists say. While much has been made of school attendance figures in recent months, a group of experts are suggesting not enough attention has been given to the experiences of parents and young people experiencing school distress. In a new book, What Can We Do When School’s Not Working?, a parent and two ...

Play “humanizes” pediatric care and should be key feature of a child-friendly NHS – report

2025-03-30
Play should be a core feature of children’s healthcare in forthcoming plans for the future of the NHS, according to a new report which argues that play “humanises” the experiences of child patients. The report, by University of Cambridge academics for the charity Starlight, calls for play, games and playful approaches to be integrated into a ‘holistic’ model of children’s healthcare – one that acknowledges the emotional and psychological dimensions of good health, ...

Stricter oversight needed as financial misconduct drives risk-taking in banking

2025-03-30
Banks facing regulatory sanctions for financial misconduct tend to adopt riskier business practices, according to new research. The authors warn repeated or systemic misconduct can accelerate risk-taking in ways that weaken both individual institutions and the wider financial system. Researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA), the US Department of the Treasury and Bangor University, in the UK, drew on data from nearly 1,000 publicly listed US banks from 1998 to 2023 - a period spanning multiple economic cycles including the 2007–09 ...

Cardiac arrest during long-distance running races

2025-03-30
About The Study: This study found that despite increased participation in U.S. long distance running races, the incidence of cardiac arrest during U.S. marathons and half-marathons remains stable. There has been a marked decline in cardiac arrest mortality, and coronary artery disease was the most common etiology among cases with sufficient cause-related data. Effective emergency action planning with immediate access to defibrillation may explain the improvement in survival. Corresponding Authors: To ...

Preventable cardiac deaths during marathons are down, Emory study finds

Preventable cardiac deaths during marathons are down, Emory study finds
2025-03-30
While more people than ever are running marathons in the U.S., the risk of dying from a heart attack during a run has fallen dramatically in recent years. That’s a key conclusion from a new study by Jonathan Kim, associate professor in the Emory School of Medicine. Kim’s research is a follow-up to a study he published in 2012 – the first investigation into unexpected cardiac arrests during long distance running events. The new findings, published in JAMA, indicate that while the rate of marathon runners who suffer cardiac arrests remained unchanged, their chance for survival is twice what it was in the ...

New study finds peripheral artery disease often underdiagnosed and undertreated; opportunity to improve treatments, lower death rates

New study finds peripheral artery disease often underdiagnosed and undertreated; opportunity to improve treatments, lower death rates
2025-03-30
A new Intermountain Health study finds that peripheral artery disease, a condition that affects more than 10 million Americans over the age of 40, is often underdiagnosed and undertreated, with fewer women getting guideline-directed medical therapy than men. As a result, combined with this highly debilitating disease, patients with peripheral artery disease have a more than 50 percent chance of dying from the condition. Peripheral artery disease affects nearly 10 percent of the US population. It occurs when the arteries that carry blood to the legs and arms become narrowed or blocked by plaque ...

Use of antidepressant medication linked to substantial increase in risk of sudden cardiac death 

2025-03-30
Vienna, Austria- 30 March 2025  Sudden cardiac death (SCD) refers to an unexpected death of a person, believed to be caused by a heart-related issue. It occurs within one hour of the onset of symptoms in witnessed cases or within 24 hours of the person being last seen alive in unwitnessed cases.  The causes in people under the age of 39 are often a thickening of the heart muscle or an electrical problem with the heart. In older people, SCD is more likely to be caused by a narrowing of the blood vessels that supply the heart.   Previous research has shown1 that patients with psychiatric disorders have an increased all-cause mortality ...

Atrial fibrillation diagnosed in midlife is linked to a 21% increased risk of dementia at any age and a 36% higher risk of early-onset dementia 

2025-03-30
Vienna, Austria- 31 March 2025  New research presented at the EHRA 2025, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology, shows that the presence of atrial fibrillation (AF) increases the risk of future dementia by 21% in patients diagnosed with AF under 70 and the risk of early-onset dementia (diagnosed before age 65 years) by 36%. The association was stronger in younger adults and was lost in older adults aged 70 years and over.  “This is the largest European population-based study evaluating the association between AF and dementia,” say the authors that include Dr Julián Rodriguez ...

Mode of death in patients with heart failure with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction

2025-03-30
About The Study: Among patients with heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction/heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in the Finerenone Trial to Investigate Efficacy and Safety Superior to Placebo in Patients With Heart Failure randomized clinical trial, higher proportions of cardiovascular and overall mortality in those with ejection fraction less than 50% were related principally to higher proportions of sudden death. A clear treatment effect of finerenone on cardiovascular or cause-specific mortality was not identified, although the trial was likely underpowered for these outcomes. Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Akshay S. Desai, ...

LAST 30 PRESS RELEASES:

Cheese may really be giving you nightmares, scientists find

Study reveals most common medical emergencies in schools

Breathable yet protective: Next-gen medical textiles with micro/nano networks

Frequency-engineered MXene supercapacitors enable efficient pulse charging in TENG–SC hybrid systems

Developed an AI-based classification system for facial pigmented lesions

Achieving 20% efficiency in halogen-free organic solar cells via isomeric additive-mediated sequential processing

New book Terraglossia reclaims language, Country and culture

The most effective diabetes drugs don't reach enough patients yet

Breast cancer risk in younger women may be influenced by hormone therapy

Strategies for staying smoke-free after rehab

Commentary questions the potential benefit of levothyroxine treatment of mild hypothyroidism during pregnancy

Study projects over 14 million preventable deaths by 2030 if USAID defunding continues

New study reveals 33% gap in transplant access for UK’s poorest children

Dysregulated epigenetic memory in early embryos offers new clues to the inheritance of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

IVF and IUI pregnancy rates remain stable across Europe, despite an increasing uptake of single embryo transfer

It takes a village: Chimpanzee babies do better when their moms have social connections

From lab to market: how renewable polymers could transform medicine

Striking increase in obesity observed among youth between 2011 and 2023

No evidence that medications trigger microscopic colitis in older adults

NYUAD researchers find link between brain growth and mental health disorders

Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations, new study finds

University of Oregon to create national children’s mental health center with $11 million federal grant

Rare achievement: UTA undergrad publishes research

Fact or fiction? The ADHD info dilemma

Genetic ancestry linked to risk of severe dengue

Genomes reveal the Norwegian lemming as one of the youngest mammal species

Early birds get the burn: Monash study finds early bedtimes associated with more physical activity

Groundbreaking analysis provides day-by-day insight into prehistoric plankton’s capacity for change

Southern Ocean saltier, hotter and losing ice fast as decades-long trend unexpectedly reverses

Human fishing reshaped Caribbean reef food webs, 7000-year old exposed fossilized reefs reveal

[Press-News.org] Canada needs to support health research at home and abroad