Over a quarter (26.5%) of children reported trying to lose weight between 2015 and 2016, a 5% increase over 1997 and 1998, finds new research from the University of Oxford. The largest increases in weight loss attempts were ...
Jul 18, 2022
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that helps more than 39 million people avoid food insecurity has an unexpected benefit—it may help prevent child maltreatment.
Jul 13, 2022
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Participation in cardiac rehabilitation is low among Asian, Black and Hispanic adults compared to white adults, with significant disparities by race/ethnicity regardless of income, according to new research published today ...
Jun 22, 2022
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A significant number of children who do not meet the eligibility criteria for Free School Meals are going hungry, a new study has shown.
Jun 20, 2022
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Over the past 20 years, despite the overall increase in the use of insulin pumps, there have been few improvements in the ethnic, racial and socioeconomic inequities in insulin pump use among youth with type 1 diabetes, ...
Jun 14, 2022
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The risk of monkeypox becoming established in non-endemic nations is real, the WHO warned Wednesday, with more than a thousand cases now confirmed in such countries.
Jun 8, 2022
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After adding, and then deleting, a recommendation that U.S. travelers wear masks to protect themselves from monkeypox, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still says that those traveling to countries where ...
Jun 8, 2022
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It's easy to imagine the emotional distress of both parents and children in families where there isn't enough to eat. Especially if it happens regularly. An increasing number of studies have shown an association between food ...
May 4, 2022
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Handgun carrying increased significantly among rural, White and higher-income adolescents from 2002 to 2019, ominously escalating the risk of firearm-related death or injury for both these youths and others in their social ...
Apr 26, 2022
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Chickenpox in childhood results in £24 million in lost income and productivity every year in the UK, although the true cost is likely to be higher, according to new research to be presented at this year's European Congress ...
Apr 25, 2022
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