Exoskeletons—wearable devices used by workers on assembly lines or in warehouses to alleviate stress on their lower backs—may compete with valuable resources in the brain while people work, canceling out the physical ...
Jul 22, 2021
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More vaccinated people are dying of COVID than unvaccinated people, according to a recent report from Public Health England (PHE). The report shows that 163 of the 257 people (63.4%) who died of the delta variant within 28 ...
Jul 14, 2021
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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I have been working from home for months now. I want to start being more active, especially because my work often requires that I sit at my desk for long periods of time. Are there any easy ways for me to ...
Mar 19, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Physical activity could be the best gift to give your family this holiday season. And the American Heart Association (AHA) has some suggestions on how to do that.
Dec 18, 2020
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Researchers from the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Tsukuba studied the way blind players and sighted non-athletes tracked an incoming noise-making ball. They found that blind players employed a ...
Nov 24, 2020
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Alarm bells are ringing in sport about the risk of a group of chronic, neuro-degenerative diseases, commonly understood as dementia. There is an increasingly large body of evidence which has identified that small, repetitive ...
Nov 23, 2020
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Up to 22% of soccer injuries are concussions that can result from players using their heads to direct the ball during a game.
Nov 12, 2020
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Experts estimate up to one third of people attending specialist memory clinics could have a condition that is commonly mistaken for early dementia.
Aug 17, 2020
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There's no app to help coax a person with dementia to take a shower if they don't want to, but family caregivers wish they had that kind of support.
Jul 14, 2020
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According to a new study, high school girls' lacrosse players who may, but are not required to, wear flexible headgear are at a higher risk of getting a concussion from a stick or ball impact than boys' lacrosse players, ...
Jun 25, 2020
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