Health
What your hands say about your health
Your hands reveal a lot about the state of your health. This is something that has been recognized since at least the time of Hippocrates—the father of modern medicine.
Aug 25, 2023
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News tagged with finger length
Medical research
Experts evaluate link between hand size difference and COVID-19 severity
The difference in finger length between a person's left and right hand may provide vital information about how ill they could get if they contract COVID-19.
Nov 2, 2022
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2D:4D ratio is not related to sex-determined finger size differences in men and women: study
The ratios between the lengths of the second and fourth fingers, known as the 2D:4D ratio, are different in males and females, which is often explained by levels of androgens and oestrogens. However, an alternative theory ...
Jul 8, 2021
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Neuroscience
Show your fingers to a neuroscientist
By comparing your index and ring fingers, a neuroscientist can tell if you are likely to be anxious, or if you are likely to be a good athlete.
Oct 12, 2016
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Pediatrics
Middle finger length good guide for intubation depth in children
(HealthDay)—Using middle finger length to guide tracheal intubation depth improves the rate of appropriate tube placement in children, according to a study published in the November issue of Pediatric Anesthesia.
Nov 2, 2015
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Neuroscience
At arm's length: The plasticity of depth judgment
(Medical Xpress)—People have a distance at which they are best able to judge depth. That distance, it turns out, is dictated by how long people understand their arms to be. Researchers showed this in the Journal of Neuroscience ...
Jan 17, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Verbal aggression: You may have picked it up in the womb, says new study
(Medical Xpress)—Research on the communication trait of verbal aggressiveness, which includes behavior like name calling, ridicule, insults, racial epithets and threats, has tended to focus on its social causes.
Jan 7, 2013
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Finger ratio points to penile length
The ratio between the second and fourth digits is linked to stretched penile length according to a study published online this week in Asian Journal of Andrology. This finding suggests that digit ratio can predict adult penile ...
Jul 5, 2011
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