According to a new federally funded study focusing on New York City and published in Environmental Epidemiology, researchers found that communities that were very isolated by roadways and traffic patterns tended to have more schizophrenia-related hospital visits, and this effect was independent from traffic-caused air pollution.

By combining health research insights with practical design tools, the researchers have developed a rigorous, health research–grounded framework to guide the design and evaluation of digital technologies that support mindful eating.

Medical scientists are stricter while natural, social and humanities scientists are more permissive. The attitude to ethically problematic ways of conducting research differs clearly between disciplines, according to a study from Linköping University, Sweden.