There is a strong association between an older person’s view of how they are ageing and how well they will physically recover after a fall.

That is the finding of a new research study from Imperial College London and Coventry University, which is the first to suggest how important psychological factors may be in post-fall physical recovery. The study is published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Falls in older adults are a major health concern because they can lead to high levels of physical disability and hospitalisation, as well as affecting people’s ability to live independently. 

Struggling with money in childhood is linked to higher rates of anxiety and loneliness later in life, often surfacing nearly two decades earlier than for those who grew up financially secure. Experiencing financial hardship in both childhood and adulthood further increases the likelihood of depression, anxiety and loneliness in older age.Feeling financially secure plays a key role in emotional health — beyond just what someone earns.

Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine have found male, middle-aged patients are more likely to be prescribed a high dose of opioid medication, which increases their risk of developing opioid use disorder.

There’s good news for people with migraine who take common drugs before or during pregnancy—a new study found no increase in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and ADHD in their children. The study, which looked at drugs used for migraine attacks called triptans, is published on May 21, 2025, online in Neurology^®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

In 2022 a team led by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry discovered that high levels of OH radicals can be generated indoors, simply due to the presence of people and ozone. This means: People generate their own oxidation field and change the indoor air chemistry around them within their own personal space. Now, in a follow-up study again in cooperation with an international research team, they found that commonly applied personal care products substantially suppress a human’s production of OH radicals. These findings have implications for the indoor chemistry, the air quality of occupied spaces, and human health, since many of the chemicals in our immediate vicinity are transformed by this field.