People with disabilities are more than twice as likely to die prematurely, taking 10 to 20 years off their life expectancy, according to a new report based on research by experts from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical ...
Oct 18, 2022
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COVID-19 has caused a protracted shock to life expectancy levels, leading to global mortality changes unprecedented in the last 70 years, according to research today in Nature Human Behaviour from Oxford's Leverhulme Center ...
Oct 17, 2022
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Men and women in the UK have a higher probability of dying than predicted, a new report has found. The results, published in European Actuarial Journal, could have a big impact on the future viability of pensions schemes. ...
Oct 13, 2022
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Mental health is the overall wellness of how you think, regulate your feelings and behave. A mental disorder may be present when patterns or changes in thinking, feeling or behaving cause distress or disrupt a person's ability ...
Oct 13, 2022
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A research study published in Immunity has found that the previously identified disease-associated microglia (DAM) population detected in murine Alzheimer's disease models actually contained an additional population of macrophages ...
Oct 12, 2022
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In the Western world, life expectancy rapidly increased in the twentieth century, but women still have longer life expectancy than men. In Finland, women live on average five years longer than men. The gap between the sexes ...
Oct 10, 2022
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Cuts to public services and living standards across Britain from 2010 contributed to 335,000 excess deaths—twice as many as previously thought, according to new research. These austerity measures were introduced by the ...
Oct 7, 2022
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People with fewer financial resources live between 3 and 4 years less than richer people, according to the conclusions of a study carried out by several groups from the Epidemiology and Public Health Area (CIBERESP) of the ...
Oct 6, 2022
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The devolution deal which granted Greater Manchester increased control over a range of public services, including health and social care, has been linked to a positive impact on life expectancy in a study by University of ...
Sep 29, 2022
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Since the introduction of the first antiretroviral therapy (ART) drug for HIV/AIDS treatment 35 years ago, life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa has steadily increased. ART medications are specifically designed to help an ...
Sep 27, 2022
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