Addiction
Heavier social media use linked to more frequent drinking in young people
Heavier social media use is associated with more frequent alcohol consumption among young people in the UK, according to a new UCL study.
Apr 26, 2021
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Neuroscience
Cognitive decline due to aging can be reversed in mice – here's what the new study means for humans
The aging global population is the greatest challenge faced by 21st-century healthcare systems. Even COVID-19 is, in a sense, a disease of aging. The risk of death from the virus roughly doubles for every nine years of life, ...
Jan 22, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
'Aging well' greatly affected by hopes and fears for later life, study finds
If you believe you are capable of becoming the healthy, engaged person you want to be in old age, you are much more likely to experience that outcome, a recent Oregon State University study shows.
Jan 21, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Britain OKs vaccine as global COVID death toll nears 1.5 million
Britain on Wednesday became the first western country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine for general use, while Japan and Italy pledged free inoculations for all even as the Americas reported a big surge in cases and the global ...
Dec 2, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
76 Franciscan nuns test positive at monastery in Germany
Seventy-six Catholic nuns have tested positive for COVID-19 after an outbreak at a Franciscan convent in northwestern Germany, church authorities said Tuesday.
Dec 1, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nearly 1M who died of COVID-19 also illuminated treatment
The nearly 1 million people around the world who have lost their lives to COVID-19 have left us a gift: Through desperate efforts to save their lives, scientists now better understand how to treat and prevent the disease—and ...
Sep 27, 2020
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Cardiology
Nitrate supplementation could help breathing and lung clearance in the elderly
New research published today in The Journal of Physiology shows that nitrate improves function in the diaphragm, the muscle involved in coughing and breathing, by improving power. The study done in old mice, if replicated ...
Aug 17, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Using cognitive psychology to fight COVID-19 misconceptions
There's the idea that cloth masks don't protect people from the coronavirus, so there's no point in wearing them (hint: They do). That COVID-19 is just like the flu (it's not). That it only affects old people (also no).
Jun 4, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
'Unimaginable human tragedy' in Europe's care homes: WHO
The World Health Organization said Thursday Europe was seeing an "unimaginable human tragedy" at its care homes, where deaths from the new coronavirus accounted for up to 50 percent in some countries.
Apr 23, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Malta records first coronavirus death
Malta recorded its first coronavirus victim Wednesday, after a 92-year old woman with underlying health issues died, the deputy prime minister said.
Apr 8, 2020
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