A new review on the global mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic confirms feared increases in depression and anxiety, with leading experts saying little has been done to address what is set to become a mounting mental ...
Mar 10, 2023
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Computed tomography (CT) is one of the most powerful and well-established diagnostic tools available to modern medicine. An increasing number of people have been opting for CT scans, raising concerns about the amount of X-ray ...
Mar 8, 2023
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A new University of Chicago study examining Medicare claims found older adults living near fracking sites in Pennsylvania were more likely to be hospitalized for cardiovascular diseases than those who lived in nearby New ...
Mar 7, 2023
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Adults with alcohol use disorder (AUD) seeking to moderate their drinking respond differently to interventions depending on their age, a new study suggests.
Mar 6, 2023
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The latest data from the Office for National Statistics suggests that more than 1.2 million people in the U.K. report living with long COVID for 12 months or more.
Mar 2, 2023
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Rising rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, preterm birth and low birthweight, over the past 10 years are largely attributable to the health status of a person before they get ...
Feb 24, 2023
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Excess weight or obesity boosts risk of death by anywhere from 22% to 91%—significantly more than previously believed—while the mortality risk of being slightly underweight has likely been overestimated, according to ...
Feb 24, 2023
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Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and The Johns Hopkins University have created and preliminarily tested what they believe may be one of the first models for predicting who has the highest probability of being resistant ...
Feb 22, 2023
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A California policy restricting antibiotic use in animals raised for food is associated with a reduction in one type of antibiotic-resistant infection in people in the state, according to a new study published today in the ...
Feb 22, 2023
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More than half of Black Californians said there was a time in the last few years when they thought they would have received better health care if they had belonged to a different racial or ethnic group, according to a report ...
Feb 17, 2023
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