Health
When calorie counts aren't on the menu
(HealthDay)—Over the past few decades, the amount of food Americans eat away from home has increased from 18 percent to 33 percent.
Jan 11, 2019
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Pediatrics
Home alone: How to keep your kids safe when you're at work during the holidays
Many working parents battle with school holidays, especially the long period between Christmas and the start of the new school year. Most people receive four weeks' leave a year, but school holidays take up about 12 weeks ...
Dec 20, 2018
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Health
Secondhand smoke exposure saw big drop from 1988 to 2014
(HealthDay)—Secondhand smoke exposure declined substantially among U.S. nonsmokers from 1988 through 2014, according to research published in the Dec. 7 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity ...
Dec 9, 2018
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Neuroscience
Scientists can predict where a rat will go based on hippocampal neuron firing
Place cells in the hippocampus fire when we are in a certain position—this discovery by John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2014. Based on which place cell fires, scientists ...
Nov 29, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Fear of public places after mass shootings? Tips to overcome anxiety
It's a scene that's become all too familiar in American culture.
Nov 13, 2018
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Neuroscience
Nested sequences: An indispensable mechanism for forming memories
Repetition is the best memorization method for neurons themselves. This is the principle behind what neurobiologists call sequence reactivations: During sleep, neurons in the hippocampus related to a task quickly activate ...
Nov 8, 2018
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Pediatrics
Finns demand legal right to breastfeed in public
Finnish health officials are demanding a law to protect breastfeeding mothers from being driven out of public places, including restaurants and coffee shops, in one of western Europe's most gender equal nations.
Oct 4, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The paradox of 'suicide in happy places' seems not to exist
Several years ago, a research paper made headlines by finding that the happiest states in the United States also had the highest suicide rates.
Sep 6, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New device for assisting accurate hemodialysis catheter placement
Researchers at Okayama University report in The Journal of Vascular Access a supporting device for accurately placing hemodialysis catheters on kidney patients. The device was successfully used on a group of 10 patients ...
Aug 14, 2018
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Neuroscience
Mouse memory cells are about experience, not place
When it comes to memory, it's more than just "location, location, location." New research suggests that the brain doesn't store all memories in place cells, the main type of neuron in the hippocampus, a structure crucial ...
Jul 26, 2018
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