An overload of electronic paperwork is increasing the risk of burnout among young doctors, a new study says.

A study by psychologists at Nottingham Trent University suggests that mornings are the optimal time for older adults to engage in age-related interventions to maximize well-being. The research involved 86 men and women aged 60 to 81 who completed online questionnaires once early in the morning and once in the late afternoon or early evening. The work is published in the journal Chronobiology International.

Future doctors may no longer be required to learn about how social and economic factors affect health.

Biopsy-derived organoids, accurate models of disease, are used to search for new drugs. Now, results obtained by a study led by the University of Trento in collaboration with Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital in Rome may pave a path to an organoid that could be used to study two common, aggressive childhood brain cancers. The model organ for this research project is the best pediatric brain tumor model developed so far and can be used to test new drugs. The results of the project are published in the Nature Protocols.

While sleep is essential to health, nearly half of adults (45%) have not discussed sleep with their health care professional, according to a new survey from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. The health care conversation gap is wider for women. According to the survey, women (49%) are more likely than men (40%) to have not discussed their sleep with any health professional. As a result, women are less likely to get specialist referrals, making women (9%) less likely to have discussed their sleep with a sleep specialist compared with men (21%).

Using cholesterol-lowering medications more intensively to achieve a more aggressive target for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) reduced the rate of major cardiovascular events by one-third among patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session (ACC.26).

The authors of a recent study have recommended improvements to commonly used assessments of health care and social service providers' attitudes about prenatal alcohol exposure and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. The recommendations follow a thorough evaluation of assessments that had not previously been psychometrically validated and represent a first step toward establishing reliable and valid measures to assess attitudes toward these conditions. More accurately understanding providers' attitudes can help identify training needs and effectiveness in order to improve the diagnosis and treatment of prenatal alcohol exposure and its consequences.

Black adults with high blood pressure who received dietitian counseling and home deliveries of groceries aligned with the DASH diet—meaning high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy, nuts, seeds, legumes and lean proteins—had an average overall reduction in systolic blood pressure of 7 mm Hg at three months overall and a 5 mm Hg reduction compared with participants who received only basic dietary guidance and a grocery stipend, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session (ACC.26).

Folks residing in Birmingham, Alabama, recently learned that their drinking water would no longer contain fluoride.

A large proportion of people living with diabetes may have undiagnosed heart failure, according to results from a recent trial. The findings of the TARTAN-HF trial, which were presented at the American College of Cardiology Conference (ACC.26) in New Orleans, suggest that a simple heart-failure screening program for people living with diabetes could dramatically improve diagnosis rates, facilitate the earlier implementation of disease-modifying treatments, and may reduce the risk of hospitalization and death.