Health
Tips to keep New Year's resolutions
(HealthDay)—Lose weight. Eat healthier. Quit smoking. These are all popular New Year's resolutions that are often only kept for a short time, if at all.
Jan 2, 2020
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News tagged with attitudes
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Media reporting on mental illness, violence, and crime needs to change
The media is a key source of information about mental illness for the public, and research shows media coverage can influence public attitudes and perceptions of mental ill-health. But when it comes to complex mental illnesses ...
Aug 24, 2020
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Medicalizing menopause may be unhelpful for some women
Treating menopause as a hormone deficiency requiring treatment is inaccurate and fuels negative expectations which might be harmful to women, argue experts in The BMJ today.
Jun 16, 2022
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Health
Alcohol ads in sport fuel drinking culture
Repeated exposure to alcohol advertising in sport—either at venues or during media coverage of matches—can have long-term effects on drinking attitudes, according to a new international study.
Apr 30, 2019
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Competitive soccer linked to increased injuries and menstrual dysfunction in girls
In the U.S., there are nearly three million youth soccer players, and half of them are female. New research presented today at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that despite ...
Feb 7, 2012
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HIV & AIDS
Parental knowledge and attitudes toward HIV preventive treatment for their adolescent children
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a daily regimen of two medications in a single pill, could prevent many new HIV infections, especially in at-risk populations. For example, research shows PrEP could prevent around 70 ...
Apr 11, 2023
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Health
Study finds day-to-day experiences affect awareness of aging, mood
A study of older adults finds an individual's awareness of aging is not as static as previously thought, and that day-to-day experiences and one's attitude toward aging can affect an individual's awareness of age-related ...
Jul 20, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Parenting and temperament in childhood predict later political ideology
Political mindsets are the product of an individual's upbringing, life experiences, and environment. But are there specific experiences that lead a person to choose one political ideology over another?
Oct 22, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Exposure to sexual content in popular movies predicts sexual behavior in adolescence
Intuitively it simply makes sense: exposure to sexual content in movies at an early age probably influences adolescents' sexual behavior. And yet, even though a great deal of research has shown that adolescents who watch ...
Jul 17, 2012
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Medications
Study finds people who use alternative medicine favor risk and novelty, and distrust science
Over 40 percent of Canadians have used at least one risk-associated alternative health-care treatment in the past 12 months, says a new UBC study published in PLOS One.
Sep 28, 2023
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