After surgery under general anaesthesia, older patients often experience a decline in cognitive function that can last for months or even years. This worsening brain function has been linked to deep anaesthesia during surgery.
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New research presented this week at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, shows that in Alabama, one in 10 racial or ethnic minority patients with a rheumatic disease in a large rheumatology ...
Nov 2, 2021
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Vaccine hesitancy is common among emergency department (ED) patients, and more common among Black and younger patients, independent of education level. This is the conclusion of a study titled COVID‐19 Vaccine Hesitancy ...
Aug 31, 2021
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Childhood cancer and its treatment can result in cognitive struggles. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are studying the risk factors. They looked at social and economic issues in children with brain tumors ...
Mar 1, 2021
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Among adults with kidney failure in need of a transplant, socioeconomic status and medical illnesses likely contribute to racial disparities in being put on transplant wait lists. The findings come from a study that will ...
May 7, 2020
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An international team of researchers carried out an experiment at HSE University demonstrating that knowledge of several languages can improve the performance of the human brain. In their study, they registered a correlation ...
Feb 18, 2020
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Many studies have examined the health effects of smartphone abuse, but a new study looks at the sociodemographic features and health indicators of people who have a smartphone but do not use it regularly. This under-studied ...
Sep 9, 2019
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The U.S. Chinese population is growing—and graying—rapidly! From 2000 to 2010, the Chinese American population aged 65 and over grew at a rate four times higher than the overall U.S. older adult population. As of 2016, ...
Aug 26, 2019
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With the help of a multidisciplinary register and questionnaire study, Finnish researchers at the University of Turku showed that both the educational level and its occupational orientation predict the mother's smoking during ...
Jan 22, 2019
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The findings, which come from a Journal of Diabetes analysis of 11,515 men and 13,569 women in China, indicate that nutrition in early life may play a role in the development of subsequent metabolic disorders.
Aug 22, 2018
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