Step up: How to build a walking habit, 500 steps at a time
Starting a walking routine takes very little: comfortable, supportive shoes and your own two feet.
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Population Characteristics: News and Research on Mortality
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A new approach to kidney matching could save lives
Although more than 100,000 people are on the national transplant waiting list in the U.S., thousands of donated kidneys are discarded each year, often because they're slightly older, with fewer years of remaining function.
Oct 13, 2026
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The circumstances you grow up in are linked to how long you live
Poorer people, on average, live shorter lives. This pattern can be seen even in wealthy countries with extensive welfare systems. In Norway, for example, 40-year-old men in the richest 1% could expect to live almost 14 years ...
Oct 10, 2026
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Global injury crisis highlights urgent need for smarter trauma care
A study of almost 9,000 injury patients across Africa and South Asia has found that nearly half were dead or disabled after three months—highlighting the need for smarter, locally tailored trauma-care systems.
Oct 8, 2026
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For-profit hospitals linked to worse patient outcomes and nurse staffing shortfalls, new study finds
Patients treated at for-profit hospitals experienced higher mortality and readmission rates, while nurses working in those hospitals reported less safe staffing and substantially worse working conditions, according to a new ...
Oct 8, 2026
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Abortion bans make health care more expensive
A new preliminary study from the University of Michigan shows that state abortion bans implemented following the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in June 2022 are associated with women paying more for health insurance, adding ...
Oct 6, 2026
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Children facing multiple adversities growing up are more likely to die at a younger age
Imagine a child who has been hospitalized numerous times. Perhaps they were also diagnosed with a mental health condition as a teenager. At the same time, they grew up in a family affected by unemployment, poverty or alcohol ...
Oct 5, 2026
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Colorectal cancer on the rise in adolescent patients, data analysis finds
Rates of advanced-stage colorectal cancer are climbing in young patients, highlighting a need for increased vigilance, according to data presented during the American Academy of Pediatrics 2026 National Conference & Exhibition ...
Oct 2, 2026
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New research links declines in ED pediatric readiness to thousands of child deaths
A new study published in JAMA Pediatrics provides evidence that being prepared to care for children in an emergency—and staying prepared over time—can be a matter of life and death.
Oct 1, 2026
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Chewing tobacco linked to 251,000 deaths worldwide, with more than 90% of health loss concentrated in 10 countries
A new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) finds that chewing tobacco use contributed to an estimated 251,000 deaths globally in 2023, with health loss overwhelmingly concentrated in South Asia.
Sep 30, 2026
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