Health
Menstrual health literacy is alarmingly low—what you don't know can harm you
Given that 98% of mammals do not have periods, do you know why humans do?
Mar 13, 2024
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Health
Heart disease doesn't have to keep you from donating blood
As blood centers and hospitals face critically low levels of blood supplies, many people with heart disease may wonder if they can help by donating.
Mar 10, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Research team analyzes hospital stay data, identifies key points where disease trajectories diverge
The world population is aging at an increasing pace. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2023, one in six people was over 60 years old. By 2050, the number of people over 60 is expected to double to 2.1 billion.
Mar 7, 2024
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Sleep disorders
Researchers explore the science of sleep
In a world first, Australian sleep experts were given just eight weeks to develop and run a sleep treatment program that diagnosed and treated more than 30 volunteers and achieved a success rate greater than 80%
Mar 5, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Skin picking is often trivialized as a bad habit—but dermatillomania can be dangerous
Our skin is often covered with tiny imperfections—blemishes, moles, cuts and spots that we're all guilty of picking at from time to time. Consider the temptation of that bulbous yellow head of a spot ready to erupt, or ...
Feb 29, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers demonstrate clinical benefits of schema therapy for inpatient treatment
Schema therapy is increasingly being used as a psychotherapeutic method. The focus here is on early childhood experiences and emotions that contribute to current symptoms and mental disorders. So far, the effectiveness of ...
Feb 19, 2024
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Genetics
Study highlights importance of genetic sequencing to diagnosis of growth disorders
In an article published in the Journal of Pediatrics, researchers based in Brazil describe the case of a nine-year-old boy admitted to hospital with multiple symptoms and overlapping conditions that made diagnosis difficult, ...
Feb 19, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Progress toward developing blood tests for psychiatric and neurological disorders
Researchers in a Johns Hopkins Children's Center-led study that used genetic material from human blood and lab-grown brain cells say they have made progress in developing a blood test to identify disease-associated changes ...
Feb 7, 2024
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Neuroscience
When symptoms suggest a stroke, but it's something else
What looks and feels like a stroke sometimes isn't. Instead, sudden weakness, difficulty speaking, vision changes, dizziness and other symptoms of a stroke might be caused by something else—a stroke mimic.
Feb 5, 2024
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Neuroscience
Signs of accelerated aging found in brains of individuals with alcohol use disorder
The brains and blood of people with a history of excessive drinking show cellular evidence of premature aging. In a new study published in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, DNA taken from people with alcohol use ...
Jan 26, 2024
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