Neuroscience
Researchers report on head injuries in MMA
Mixed martial arts (MMA) has gained global popularity over recent years. Yet it remains a sport with a high risk of injury in general, and head injuries in specific.
Dec 7, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Aging population is growing ranks of cancer survivors
Improved cancer detection and treatment efforts, combined with demographic trends, are creating larger numbers of older cancer survivors who are likely to have other health conditions that impact care and well-being.
Jul 1, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study indicates link between tech use, anxiety, depression in older adults
Using data collected from the National Health and Aging Trends Study, Harvard Medical School researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital explored the various communication patterns that adults age 65 and older reported having ...
Apr 19, 2023
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Medical economics
What is the average age and disability level of older people moving into long-term care?
As a geriatrician or physician specially trained to treat older adults, Kenneth Lam, MD, MAS, has many years of experience working with families to understand when their older relatives should move into a nursing home or ...
Nov 8, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Some groups have trouble controlling diabetes
Among individuals in the U.S. with diabetes, non-Latino whites tend to better control the cardiovascular risk factors blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol, while African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and those with ...
Jan 17, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Chlamydia, gonorrhea rates up among young women in the US
(HealthDay)—There has been an age shift in positivity for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae among women, according to a study published online Aug. 20 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Aug 31, 2020
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Health
Study examines the relationship between marriage and alcohol
New research examining relationships and the use of alcohol finds that while a long-term marriage appears to curb men's drinking, it's associated with a slightly higher level of alcohol use among women. The study, led by ...
Aug 18, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
US virus deaths may top 80,000 despite confinement: study
COVID-19 could lead to more than 80,000 deaths in the US and overwhelm hospital capacity nationally as soon as early April even if social distancing measures are respected, new research showed Thursday.
Mar 26, 2020
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Medications
Opioid-related deaths affecting more younger adults, study finds
From 2003 through 2020, as opioid-related mortality in Ontario, Canada increased five-fold, the age distribution also shifted downward—with rates now peaking for people in their mid-30s—according to a new study published ...
Apr 20, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
More than two years into the pandemic, hospital care still may not save you from dying of COVID-19
By the fall of 2020, the pandemic's first year, doctors treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients said they were starting to get the regimen down to a science. They learned when to put patients on ventilators, administer steroids, ...
Aug 11, 2022
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