Archive: 15/12/2020

A hospital that prescribes free nutritious food to families who need more than medical care

Being food-insecure – unable to get enough nutritious food to meet your needs—can take a toll on your health. So Dayton Children's Hospital has begun to screen its patients and their families for this problem and refer ...

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Survivors of child abuse twice as likely to die young

Globally the statistics are daunting. Across countries and communities between 15 and 50 per cent of children are subject to serious abuse and neglect within their own families, most often at the hands of a parent.

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Neuroscientists tap gamers to learn how people problem-solve

Fans of Candy Crush Saga, Flow Free or Minesweeper should check out a challenging new mobile game app, hexxed, that will stretch your brain as it helps brain researchers understand human strategic thinking and perhaps improve ...

Dec 15, 2020

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13 percent of U.S. adults report serious psychological distress during COVID-19

Serious psychological distress among U.S. adults remained fairly steady between April and July 2020, according to a research letter published online Nov. 23 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Digital trackers for mental health not yet fit for purpose

Digital tracking of people with mental health conditions has the power to transform medical diagnostics and treatment, but its claims need careful scrutiny, says an expert in digital analytics from the University of Bath.

Dec 15, 2020

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'Alarmingly high' vitamin D deficiency in the United Kingdom

Over 50 per cent of Asians living in the UK are severely deficient in vitamin D, leaving them more vulnerable to respiratory infections such as COVID-19 and musculoskeletal disorders, according to a large-scale population ...

Dec 15, 2020

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Study shows women less likely to survive out-of-hospital cardiac arrest than men

A study of patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest shows that women have a lower likelihood of survival compared with men and are less likely to receive procedures commonly administered following cardiac ...

Dec 15, 2020

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Why you should care about medical laboratory professionals

Who do you think performs your medical laboratory tests for COVID-19 or any other test? If you answered "my doctor" or "my nurse" or a robot, you would be completely wrong.

Dec 15, 2020

Sickle cell puts black patients at higher risk for severe COVID

Sickle cell disease increases the risk of death or serious complications from COVID-19 infection, a pair of new studies suggests.

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Forecasting the next COVID-19

Princeton disease ecologist C. Jessica Metcalf and Harvard physician and epidemiologist Michael Mina say that predicting disease could become as commonplace as predicting the weather. The Global Immunological Observatory, ...

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