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Marijuana misuse remains a top substance use disorder and studies of prenatal use show a prevalence as high as 22% worldwide.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors can be effective in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and mild interstitial lung disease, but with a greater risk.

Findings from Taiwan suggest an increased cancer risk not only for people with bipolar disorder but for their unaffected siblings too.

Organised sport is a widely accessible context that can promote health and health behaviours among participants. For that reason, recent decades have brought forth a number of sport-based interventions aimed at improving mental health literacy and symptoms. Despite this trend, there has yet to be a systematic review and meta-analysis to synthesise and estimate the efficacy of published sport-based intervention studies in non-elite sport. Following a systematic search of the literature, we conduc...

Professor Kenneth J. Gregory was a major contributor to fluvial palaeohydrological research. Beginning in the early 1980s, under his influence, rapid international growth of the discipline was accompanied by major advances in research methods and techniques. Current research emphases include applications of quantitative modelling and meta-analysis; the correlation of fluvial events to other records, notably palaeolacustine records; and methods for application to diverse issues of river engineeri...

Lean is one of the most powerful operational excellence methodologies in operations management that manufacturing organisations deploy to enhance their competitiveness. The objective of this study is to investigate published research with respect to the relationship between lean practices and organisational performance using a meta-analysis of correlation approach. This study gathered data from 40 articles published in reputed journals from 1993 to 2020 and analysed the effect of lean practices ...

Background: Oxidative stress is related to many chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cancers, hypertension, and heart diseases. Antioxidant activity of pomegranate due to high content of polyphenols, flavonoids, and several other types of antioxidant compounds has been of interest; however, the findings on its antioxidant effects are inconsistent. Objective: To assess the effects of pomegranate consumption on multiple oxidative stress biomarkers using a systematic review and meta-analysis o...

Review sheds light on predictors of social cognitive impairment in this population.

Some studies show that low serum vitamin D levels are associated with white matter hyperintensity (WMH）, while other studies report no association. This meta-analysis aimed to investigate the presence of an association between serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D [25(OH)D] levels andWMH. PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, CNKI, WANFANG, and VIP were searched for available papers published up to December 2020. The outcomes were the odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the associat...

New research sheds light on the genetic risk for developing essential tremor ― and how it overlaps with and differs from the genetic risk for Parkinsons disease.