Health
Nuts and seeds: A snack that's good for the heart
Eating nuts and seeds frequently can reduce the risk of heart disease, shows a major new study review.
Mar 17, 2023
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News tagged with health measures
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
One in four parents misled others about their children having COVID-19, survey finds
More than 25% of parents surveyed report that they were less than truthful about their children's COVID-19 status or that they didn't follow the disease's preventive guidelines during the pandemic for their offspring, according ...
Mar 6, 2023
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Health
Taking a team approach to patient care
Improved data and encouraging doctors to work together as a team on patient care could be one way to improve conditions for stressed GPs, a new study has found.
Mar 3, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Dementia screening test adapted for people with hearing problems
University of Queensland researchers have adapted an internationally used test which screens patients for dementia and Alzheimer's disease, to make it suitable for people with hearing loss.
Mar 3, 2023
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Medical research
From anti-antibiotics to extinction therapy: How evolutionary thinking can transform medicine
The word 'evolution' may bring to mind dusty dinosaur bones, but it impacts our health every day. For example, even though antibiotics were invented only a century ago, the evolution of antibiotic resistance is already a ...
Feb 28, 2023
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Medical economics
For-profit hospices deliver lower quality care than nonprofit hospices, finds study
Patients receiving care from for-profit hospices have substantially worse care experiences than patients who receive care from not-for-profit hospices, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Feb 27, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19 public health measures threaten efforts to eliminate polio, say experts
Strategies adopted in 2020 to fight COVID-19 around the world have impacted routine vaccination against poliomyelitis and even measles.
Feb 24, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How concerned should we be about bird flu?
Now two years in, the global avian flu outbreak has devastated wild and domestic bird populations, leapt into various species of mammals, and cost governments and farmers billions as consumers feel the pain in their grocery ...
Feb 24, 2023
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Health
Could buccal massage—the latest celebrity beauty trend—make you look older, not younger?
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, reportedly had it before marrying Prince Harry. Jennifer Lopez is also apparently a fan. We're talking about a type of facial called a "buccal massage".
Feb 15, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
World 'dangerously unprepared' for next crisis: Red Cross
All countries remain "dangerously unprepared" for the next pandemic, the Red Cross warned on Monday, saying future health crises could also collide with increasingly likely climate-related disasters.
Jan 30, 2023
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