Older adults from ethnic minority groups report having fewer close friends and fewer friends who live locally than older white people, according a new UCL study.
Jan 17, 2020
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For adult patients with brainstem high-grade gliomas—one of the rarest and deadliest forms of brain cancer—surgically removing the entire tumor may add many months or potentially years of survival beyond that offered ...
Jan 9, 2020
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A mother's obesity in pregnancy can affect her child's development years down the road, according to researchers who found impaired motor skills in preschoolers and lower IQ in middle childhood for boys whose mothers were ...
Dec 20, 2019
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Caring for a grandchild may be linked to a lower risk of loneliness and social isolation, suggests research published in the online journal BMJ Open.
Dec 17, 2019
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Lifelong lower socioeconomic status of fathers, as defined by early life and adulthood neighborhood income, is a newly identified risk factor for early preterm birth (at less than 34 weeks), according to a study published ...
Dec 6, 2019
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A mother's warmth and acceptance toward her teenagers may help prevent those children from being in an abusive relationship later in life, even if her own marriage is contentious, according to a new University at Buffalo ...
Oct 30, 2019
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New research suggests that, under the United States' Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), expanded Medicaid coverage has provided greater improvements in health insurance coverage for married people, especially ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Despite their wishes, many patients die in hospitals or other facilities. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death both globally and in the U.S., yet little is known about where patients with CVD die. In ...
Oct 10, 2019
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(HealthDay)—Regardless of the percentage of lifetime spent in the United States, foreign-born women are less likely to ever have received a mammogram compared with U.S.-born women, according to the Oct. 9 National Health ...
Oct 9, 2019
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Which of our senses is most important to us? We may intuitively understand that certain senses like sight or hearing are particularly valuable in our day-to-day lives. However there is limited scientific evidence regarding ...
Oct 4, 2019
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