Health
Hints of some steps that may boost brain health in old age
Are you seeking steps to keep your brain healthy in old age?
Jun 22, 2017
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News tagged with public health campaigns
Health
Activity 'Advent calendar' could help boost activity and cut sitting time
A Christmas themed physical activity intervention during Advent shows promise for increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary time among inactive adults, according to a pilot study published in the Christmas issue ...
Dec 19, 2022
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Vaccination
People were hesitant about rather than opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine, study finds
A study that explored the attitudes of vaccine hesitant adults in the U.K. towards uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine found that participants were hesitant rather than opposed to the vaccine. They had questions about their need ...
May 10, 2022
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Pediatrics
Smartphone app aims to prevent burns in children
A collaboration between injury prevention researchers at The University of Queensland and digital health company iPug has resulted in a 21st Century approach to tackling childhood scalds.
Jul 19, 2016
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HIV & AIDS
Are scare tactics off the table for public health campaigns targeting HIV?
Over the last ten years, public health campaigns in New York City around smoking, obesity, and HIV underwent a dramatic shift to use fear and disgust to spur behavior change, sometimes with the unintended consequence of stigmatizing ...
May 4, 2015
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Vaccination
Vaccination gets a boost when people know their neighbors are doing it
Just as a highly transmissible variant prompts officials to extend COVID-19 emergency status, one of the largest surveys ever conducted shows people are more willing to get vaccinated when health workers reveal how many others ...
Jan 17, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Virus fight stalls in early hot spots New York, New Jersey
A year after becoming a global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, New York and New Jersey are back atop the list of U.S. states with the highest rates of infection.
Mar 28, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Fecal blood test may save more lives than colonoscopy
State public health programs could screen many more low-income and uninsured people for colorectal cancer – and save up to four times as many lives – by using stool sample blood tests instead of colonoscopies, finds a ...
Oct 22, 2014
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Health
Middle-aged moderate drinkers rarely have health concerns about drinking
Middle-aged drinkers (30-65 year olds), who consume low-levels of alcohol, have either minor or non-existent concerns about the health effects of drinking, according to a systematic review published in the open access journal ...
Sep 17, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Second person in US dies after monkeypox diagnosis
A second person in the United States infected with monkeypox has died in California.
Sep 9, 2022
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