Archive: 07/11/2019

How to deal with smartphone stress

In the past decade, smartphones have gone from being a status item to an indispensable part of our everyday lives. And we spend a lot of time on them, around four hours a day on average.

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Forceful and dominant: men with sexist ideas of masculinity are more likely to abuse women

Men who adhere to rigid, sexist stereotypes of how to be a man are more likely to use and tolerate violence against women.

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A blue pill a day can help prevent HIV, but the people most at risk are not taking it

Transgender women—people born male who identify as women—are the population most at risk for HIV. They are also the most understudied population.

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Study is first to explore veterans' grief, an overlooked toll of war

Grief in veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has been as largely overlooked as post-traumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. A University of California, Irvine study, published online in the ...

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Financially stressed families save more with Medicaid, study shows

Financially burdened families' savings get a shot in the arm with access to Medicaid, according to a new study from CU Boulder, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis and Diego Portales ...

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Oxygen-starved tumor cells have survival advantage that promotes cancer spread

Using cells from human breast cancers and mouse breast cancer models, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have significant new evidence that tumor cells exposed to low-oxygen conditions have an ...

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Salad bars and water systems are easy targets for bioterrorists—and America's monitoring system is woefully inadequate

In October 2019, a House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee held a hearing entitled "Defending the Homeland from Bioterrorism: Are We Prepared?" The answer was a resounding no.

Nov 7, 2019

Successful project to help dizziness sufferers expands to Europe

An online resource, developed by the University of Southampton and proven to help people who regularly suffer from dizziness, has expanded to the Netherlands.

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Flu shot can provide effective immunity for people living with HIV

People who are being treated for HIV can gain effective protection against seasonal flu with the influenza (flu) vaccine, new findings confirm.

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Bloodlines may matter more than love when it comes to health

Strained relationships with parents, siblings or extended family members may be more harmful to people's health than a troubled relationship with a significant other, according to a study published by the American Psychological ...

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