As social media time rises, so does teen girls suicide risk
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As the amount of time young teenage girls spend glued to Instagram, TikTok and other social media sites goes up, so does their long-term risk for suicide, a new study warns.
The finding stems from a decade spent tracking social media habits and suicide risk among 500 teenage boys and girls, the longest such effort to date, the study authors said.
Advertisement We found that girls who started using social media at two to three hours a day or more at age 13, and then increased [that use] over time, had the highest levels of suicide risk in emerging adulthood, said study author Sarah Coyne.
Blood and urine samples identify disease that lingers after initial therapy
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a liquid biopsy examining blood or urine that could help guide treatment for colorectal cancer patients. Nadja Pejovic, a visiting medical student and co-first author of a study on the liquid biopsy, works with a sample in the lab of Aadel Chaudhuri, MD, the study s senior author. (Photo: Peter Harris)
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A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis demonstrates that a liquid biopsy examining blood or urine can help gauge the effectiveness of therapy for colorectal cancer that has just begun to spread beyond the original tumor. Such a biopsy can detect lingering disease and could serve as a guide for deciding whether a patient should undergo further treatments due to some tumor cells evading an initial attempt to eradicate the cancer.
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