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Could the way doctors traditionally measure obesity allow a subset of people with obesity-related health risks to slip through the cracks? Medical experts have typically calculated obesity using body mass index (BMI), a calculation ...
Jun 1, 2026
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Osteoporosis is a silent disease where bone loss develops gradually before fractures occur. Current clinical screening recommendations mainly focus on older women and selected high-risk groups, leaving some men, younger adults, ...
May 30, 2026
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Bans on teenagers' social media use are gathering pace worldwide. Their proponents claim that social media bans will improve young people's mental health, but what evidence supports these claims? In their new Frontiers in ...
May 29, 2026
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Women battling breast cancer can benefit from a phone-based weight loss program, according to a new study. The Breast Cancer Weight Loss (BWEL) program helped women drop excess pounds, improve their physical function and ...
May 27, 2026
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For too many women, the journey to motherhood ends in death. Maternal mortality—the death of a woman during pregnancy or within 42 days of giving birth—is not a rare tragedy. Globally, the maternal mortality rate is unacceptably ...
May 27, 2026
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Type 2 diabetes is often associated with excessive sugar intake, but lifestyle factors including body weight, exercise, and smoking habits can also influence risk. A new study published in Diabetology has found that greater ...
May 27, 2026
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University of Warwick researchers have played a central role in developing new position statements from the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), setting out how emerging cancer screening technologies should be evaluated ...
May 26, 2026
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The countries neighboring the Democratic Republic of Congo are at high risk from Ebola and should act immediately to counter the virus, the World Health Organization's head said on Monday.
May 25, 2026
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When a stranger from Spain called Cassidy Rist in her first months at Virginia Tech, she almost didn't take the meeting. The caller was Carlos Chaccour, a physician at the University of Navarra who worked on global health ...
May 22, 2026
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Can spending more time engaging with the arts, such as visiting galleries, museums, singing or painting, really lead to a longer and healthier life? It's certainly an appealing idea. And it's not implausible.
May 21, 2026
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