One in five elderly adults is socially isolated from family or friends, increasing their risks for poor mental and physical health, as well as higher rates of mortality, according to a University of Michigan study.
Apr 13, 2018
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Babies who died during their sleep while being watched by someone other than parents often had been placed in unsafe sleep positions, such as on their stomachs, or in unsafe locations, such as a couch, a new study has found.
Apr 2, 2018
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(HealthDay)—A baby's risk of death from being placed in an unsafe sleeping position or location is higher when they're under the care of a baby sitter, relative or friend, a new study found.
Apr 2, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Seeing too many social media posts from friends about their fitness activity can harm your body image, a new study contends.
Mar 5, 2018
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Whether children think their peers' intentions are benign or hostile, and how those children experience and express their own emotions, may influence the quality of their friendships, according to a new study from the University ...
Feb 15, 2018
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Premature babies make fewer friends, feel less accepted by peers and spend less time socialising in early childhood - but this improves when they get to school - according to new research by an international research collaboration, ...
Feb 5, 2018
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The friends and family test should no longer be mandatory, argue experts in The BMJ today.
Jan 29, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Teens with friends are active teens, a new study suggests.
Nov 19, 2017
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Parents often see that when their sweet, socially-minded children become adolescents they change into selfish 'hotel guests' who think only of themselves. But adolescents become increasingly better at weighing up one another's ...
Oct 31, 2017
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Are we more prone to help the person that resembles us the most? Social neuroscientists have studied the effects of similarity by showing a re-edited version of the film My Sister's Keeper to a group of subjects and by giving ...
Oct 27, 2017
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