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A large literature documents the positive effects of experiments aiming to alleviate the informational and behavioural challenges jobseekers face. In contrast, this column evaluates the impact of an online platform for jobseekers in France and finds no impact on time spent looking for a job, search scope, or self-reported wellbeing. The results also show no effect on any

Experts hope the study will provide assurance and prompt greater adoption of invasive functional angiography to diagnose and treat coronary vasomotor disorders.

Treatment with some beta blockers may protect cardiac contractile function during anthracycline or trastuzumab therapy, suggests a meta-analysis that also confirmed such protection by dexrazoxane.

Local nasal immunotherapy is an effective and safe alternative treatment for allergic rhinitis, researchers report.

A meta-analysis may provide some reassurance of the short-term cardiovascular safety of testosterone therapy for male hypogonadism until definitive 5-year TRAVERSE trial findings are available, expected in late 2022.

Genetic height, the height a person is predicted to reach independent of environmental influences, may be an underappreciated risk factor for a wide range of chronic conditions, new research suggests.

A meta-analysis of findings from randomized trials shows about 3 grams per day of omega-3 fatty acids from supplements or food can produce a modest decrease in blood pressure.

Abdominal CT detects internal herniation in patients after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery and helps doctors determine who may benefit from exploratory surgery, researchers report.

New findings show sugary drink taxes contributed to an increase in cost and a decline in sales.

Background and aims: Graph theoretic analysis of structural covariance networks (SCN) provides an assessment of brain organization that has not yet been applied to alcohol dependence (AD). We estimated whether SCN differences are present in adults with AD and heavy-drinking adolescents at age 19 and age 14, prior to substantial exposure to alcohol. Design: Cross-sectional sample of adults and a cohort of adolescents. Correlation matrices for cortical thicknesses across 68 regions were summarized...