Death count for 2025 LA County wildfires likely hundreds higher than official records show
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 13-Jan-2026 08:11 ET (13-Jan-2026 13:11 GMT/UTC)
Official California records indicate that the devastating series of wildfires that occurred in Los Angeles County in January 2025 resulted in 31 direct deaths, but a new study by Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and the University of Helsinki indicates that the actual death toll is nearly 15 times higher.
Signs that an individual might be on the verge of self-harm are often found in their online actions, but can word choices in posts indicate who is at particular risk and when?
A new study published July 8 in the Nature journal npj Mental Health Research by Dr. Ryan L. Boyd at The University of Texas at Dallas and Dr. Charlotte Entwistle of the University of Liverpool demonstrates that online support community posts indicating decreased social connectedness and heightened negative emotions can predict self-harm behaviors weeks before their occurrence in people with borderline personality disorder.
For people with macular telangiectasia type 2 (MacTel), an orphan retinal disorder that gradually destroys central vision, there have long been no approved treatment options. But now, a new study sponsored by Neurotech Pharmaceuticals and spearheaded by investigators at Scripps Research and the National Institutes of Health offers compelling evidence that vision loss can be slowed with a neuroprotective surgical implant.
In a newly released special issue of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, a journal of the American Counseling Association (ACA), counseling researchers focus on what professional counselors can do to more effectively serve the counseling needs of African Americans with disabilities.
Salmonella is one of the leading causes of foodborne illnesses in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and can spread to people from a variety of foods, including beef. Understanding how and why cattle become infected with Salmonella is an important part of fighting this major public health concern.
Researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) are addressing this problem from a new angle by studying how diet and feeding schedule impact Salmonella infections in cattle.