Children looking for health information online could end up more prone to obesity. A new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior shows a lack of digital health literacy can lead children to misinterpret portions, ...
May 6, 2020
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Why does COVID-19 affect older people more than young children? Why are the symptoms more severe in seniors than in toddlers? What are the cellular mechanisms that explain how the infection progresses?
Apr 2, 2020
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When facing the challenges presented by the current coronavirus pandemic, feeling stress is a normal reaction.
Mar 26, 2020
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According to a study published in the March 10, 2020 issue of Vaccine, people who were prompted to evaluate the trustworthiness of vaccine information from online question-and-answer platforms assigned different weights to ...
Mar 19, 2020
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U.S. health and technology specialists on Monday said they had launched a new collaborative venture to assemble a dataset of tens of thousands of scientific papers and literature on the coronavirus, which would then be analyzed ...
Mar 17, 2020
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By analysing samples from hundreds of Finns with diabetes, scientists have identified genes, and the proteins they encode, that could be involved in the development of diabetic kidney disease. The research, conducted by researchers ...
Mar 12, 2020
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How many people will die from tobacco use in developed countries in 2030?
Feb 6, 2020
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When asked to answer questions quickly and impulsively, people tend to respond with a socially desirable answer rather than an honest one, a set of experiments shows.
Oct 11, 2019
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(Spoiler alert if you haven't watched the "Game of Thrones" season finale)
May 23, 2019
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When a person whose communication is affected by a developmental disability (like Down syndrome or autism) needs to speak with a doctor, they often have to rely on a companion to help them. Whether it's a family member, a ...
May 23, 2019
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