Sleep is a fundamental aspect of human health that plays a crucial role in cognitive function, academic performance and social interactions. A study published in PLOS One by Yao Zhao at Temple ...

A new study debunks a recent claim that astronomers may have detected a lunar-mass primordial black hole. In a reanalysis of ...

Confounding by institutional processes: It is not explicitly stated whether PONV prophylaxis, anesthesia methods, surgical procedures, postoperative analgesia, and antiemetic administration policies ...

Are you thinking about getting a second or third job, or entering the workforce, to pay for your household's rising interest payments? Because a recent working paper published by the International ...

Large observational datasets are often used in epidemiology or social sciences to identify risk factors associated with health outcomes. However, these studies can be misleading when the putative risk ...

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US President Donald Trump and his Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on Thursday promoted another fringe theory about autism -- this time linking it to circumcision or to pain medication given ...

Research studies in cardiovascular epidemiology assessing the relationship between a primary exposure and a health outcome must account for the presence of what are often called third variables, ...

The epidemiological concept of confounding has had a convoluted history. It was first expressed as an issue of group non-comparability, later as an uncontrolled fallacy, then as a controllable fallacy ...

hemipy is an open-source Python module for deriving forest biophysical variables and uncertainties from digital hemispherical photographs in an automated manner. hemipy is well-suited to batch ...