A new Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) study finds that changes in weight between young adulthood and midlife may have important consequences for a person's risk of early death.
Aug 14, 2020
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PsA is a type of inflammatory arthritis linked to psoriasis—a chronic condition affecting the skin and nails. People with PsA experience pain and swelling in their joints, and at the points where tendons and ligaments attach ...
Jun 4, 2022
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In these stressful pandemic times, health experts have more reason to circle back to the link between anxiety and smoking: Does anxiety cause people to smoke? Or does smoking cause anxiety?
Jan 22, 2021
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The most common screening test for prostate cancer so often returns a false positive result that it's no longer recommended for men older than 70, and it's offered as a personal choice for younger men.
Jun 10, 2023
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A new "Doctor Who" episode shown during the festive period, especially on Christmas Day, is associated with lower death rates in the subsequent year across the UK, finds a study published in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.
Dec 18, 2023
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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, coronavirus has spread quickly through jails and prisons in cities across the country—including in Chicago, where the Cook County Jail has been one of the largest hotspots in the country. ...
Jun 8, 2020
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Mathematical models indicate that as few as one in five cases of COVID-19 which occurred during the first 29 months of the pandemic are accounted for in the half billion cases officially reported.
Sep 27, 2022
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A research model of dietary intake in 184 countries, developed by researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, estimates that poor diet contributed to over 14.1 million cases of ...
Apr 17, 2023
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A study has found that COVID-19 has resulted in reduced exercising and increased bingeing and restriction behaviours in the general population. This study, which was conducted by researchers from Swinburne's Centre for Mental ...
Jun 9, 2020
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New research has found HIV is 2.5 times more frequent in people who use mental health services than the general population in South London. The paper was published today in BMJ Open.
Apr 25, 2023
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