A recent study by the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä and the Gerontology Research Center (Finland) investigated the paths from childhood socioemotional behavior to midlife health behavior ...
Apr 21, 2022
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It may feel like a long time ago, but it's only nine months since the UK was in the grips of the "pingdemic". Back in the summer of 2021, lifting COVID restrictions saw the country's contact-tracing apps—the NHS COVID-19 ...
Mar 16, 2022
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NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, created using blockchain technology, first made a splash in the art world as a platform to buy and sell digital art backed by a digital contract. But could NFT digital contracts be useful in other ...
Feb 3, 2022
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Lifetime workplace exposure to pesticides is linked to a heightened risk of COPD, the umbrella term for a group of respiratory diseases that cause airflow blockage and breathing problems, finds a large population based study, ...
Jan 25, 2022
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COVID passes and vaccine passports may promise the ideal solution to avoiding further lockdowns in the UK or pose a threat to people's freedoms and right to privacy, experts argue in a debate published by The BMJ today.
Nov 3, 2021
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Researchers in the health and wellness space have typically relied on people to report their personal health data, like activity levels, heart rate or blood pressure, during brief snapshots in time.
Oct 26, 2021
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The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has created a great deal of uncertainty about how key requirements should be interpreted. This means that collaborators in international genetic research projects do not ...
Aug 30, 2021
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An in-depth analysis of more than 20,000 health related mobile applications (mHealth apps) published by The BMJ today finds "serious problems with privacy and inconsistent privacy practices."
Jun 16, 2021
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Patients receiving an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) should be regularly screened for anxiety and depression, according to research presented at EHRA 2021, an online scientific congress of the European Society ...
Apr 24, 2021
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As the COVID-19 vaccines reach more people across the country, some people have asked: Could we delay the second dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to allow more people to be vaccinated more quickly? And, how safe am ...
Mar 22, 2021
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