Overweight & Obesity
What does weight-inclusive health care mean? A dietitian explains what providers do to end weight stigma
Weight-inclusive health care means a focus on better health with no weight loss required.
Dec 7, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Plastic surgery goes to the movies: Study looks at perceptions of facial disfigurement
Characters with facial disfigurement have long been a recurring theme in films. Their characteristics and outcomes lend insights into perceptions of facial deformities and the effects of plastic surgery, reports a study in ...
Jul 24, 2023
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Vaccination
The 1 in 10 U.S. doctors with reservations about vaccines could be undermining the fight against COVID-19
American attitudes toward scientific expertise have become increasingly contentious in recent years. But many people across the political spectrum still place high levels of trust in their personal physicians. Correspondingly, ...
Apr 6, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Nature helps us cope with body image 'threats'
A new study has found that being in nature helps people deal with negative body image by removing some of the triggers of body image anxiety, such as the focus on social media, and strengthening coping mechanisms to keep ...
Jan 12, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Countering anti-vaccination influences from social media with conversation
The flu vaccine is considered one of the great achievements in public health, and each year it prevents millions of people from getting sick and thousands of deaths. Even so, social media messages abound with skepticism and ...
Aug 10, 2020
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Immunology
Systemic inflammation rare in pediatric COVID-19 patients
(HealthDay)—Pediatric patients with COVID-19 rarely have systemic inflammation, according to a study published online June 3 in JAMA Network Open.
Jun 4, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Coronavirus is accelerating a culture of no touching – here's why that's a problem
Touch has profound benefits for human beings. But over the last few decades, people have become increasingly cautious about socially touching others for a range of reasons. With the novel coronavirus spreading, this is bound ...
Mar 17, 2020
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Health
AARP, GSA focus on effects of negative attitudes on aging
The ways in which negative attitudes about aging can affect people's health and quality of life are the focus of 12 peer-reviewed research papers in a new AARP-sponsored supplement issue of The Gerontologist—the respected ...
Jul 18, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Thinking about family matters linked to stress for working moms, not dads
Although working mothers and fathers are almost as likely to think about family matters throughout the day, only for mothers is this type of mental labor associated with increased stress and negative emotions, according to ...
Aug 11, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Paedophiles identified accurately with implicit association tasks
A combination of two tasks for implied sexual associations has distinguished – with more than 90 per cent certainty – a group of paedophilic men from a group of men with a sexual preference for adult women. In the long ...
Apr 25, 2013
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