Medical physics and public health as a combined research area examines the development, optimization, and population-level impact of physics-based technologies and methods used in medicine, integrating dosimetry, imaging physics, and radiation protection with epidemiology, health services research, and risk assessment. It investigates how diagnostic and therapeutic modalities (e.g., ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, advanced imaging systems, radiation therapy) affect disease detection, treatment outcomes, and long-term health risks at the community and population scales, informing evidence-based guidelines, regulatory standards, and resource allocation to maximize health benefits while minimizing harm and inequities in access to physics-based medical technologies.
Wildfires are creeping into urban environments with alarming frequency, and they are connected to health problems ranging from respiratory illnesses to hypertension to anxiety. Studying the links between wildfires in these ...
Environment
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A broad systematic review has revealed that quantum computing applications in health care remain more theoretical than practical, despite growing excitement in the field.
Quantum Physics
May 21, 2025
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Special care must be taken with illnesses during pregnancy, as not all drugs are safe for mother and child. This is why an international research team involving Empa is now developing nanomedicines that will enable safe and ...
Bio & Medicine
May 21, 2025
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Skoltech researchers have fashioned a microstructure made of modified glass fiber that could in principle function as a tiny lantern for medical probes exploring the interior of blood vessels and other tubular cavities in ...
Bio & Medicine
May 12, 2025
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Andrew Lakoff studies how experts—in areas from public health to the environment to security—generate knowledge about and plan for an uncertain future. Trained as an anthropologist of science and medicine, Lakoff is a professor ...
Environment
Apr 23, 2025
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The link between proximity to greenspace—including trees and parks—and healthy birth outcomes is well established. Now new data from researchers at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health adds to our understanding ...
Environment
Apr 23, 2025
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Modern cancer treatments have evolved beyond traditional chemotherapy to include targeted approaches such as immunotherapy, radiation therapy, and photothermal therapy. Graphene oxide (GO), known for its biocompatibility, ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 3, 2025
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Research from the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet shows that air pollution and traffic noise together may pose a greater risk for stroke than either factor alone. The researchers found that ...
Environment
Apr 1, 2025
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Hanna Zurl, MD, a research fellow in the Department of Urology at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the Center for Surgery and Public Health at BWH, is the lead author of a paper published in JAMA Network Open, titled ...
Environment
Mar 31, 2025
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Heavy-ion therapy, one of the most advanced radiotherapy techniques, has proven to be more effective than conventional X-rays and proton radiation in cancer treatment. However, the mechanisms behind this superior biological ...
General Physics
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