At least one-third of Canadians diagnosed with cancer experience financial distress, called "financial toxicity," which adds to the burden of the diagnosis, write authors in a commentary published in Canadian Medical Association ...
Mar 11, 2024
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When parents try to shield their kids from financial hardship, they may be doing them a favor: Teens' views about their families' economic challenges are connected to their mental health and behavior.
Mar 8, 2024
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Adults who had amblyopia ('lazy eye') in childhood are more likely to experience hypertension, obesity, and metabolic syndrome in adulthood, as well as an increased risk of heart attack, according to a new study led by UCL ...
Mar 7, 2024
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Declining fertility rates and aging populations in Western nations have recently set off alarm bells, but continued global population growth will actually raise the pressure billions more people place on a destroyed environment, ...
Mar 6, 2024
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Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) are taking a more detailed look at how children's language development is influenced by the number of people in their households.
Mar 6, 2024
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Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools and upended child care, the CDC says parents can start treating the virus like other respiratory illnesses.
Mar 2, 2024
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Two health experts from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy are available to discuss what the Alabama Supreme Court's landmark ruling on frozen embryos could mean for the rest of the country and for the science ...
Mar 1, 2024
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Teens have a higher risk of self-injury—deliberately cutting or burning themselves—if they have a fraught relationship with a struggling parent, a new study shows.
Feb 29, 2024
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According to the advocacy group Autism Speaks, one in every 36 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Feb 29, 2024
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Most parents have experienced it: Your young child wakes up distraught, sure that the nightmare they've just suffered through is real.
Feb 27, 2024
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