A new report highlights the vital role community groups play in staving off isolation and forging a sense of identity among vulnerable people—and researchers even suggest using such groups could be prescribed by GPs in ...
Jul 24, 2020
0
4
Children and young people who grow up in care are up to four times more likely to suffer from poor health 30 years later than those who grew up with their parents, finds new research from UCL and King's College London.
Jul 20, 2020
0
3
Teenagers who experience very poor sleep may be more likely to experience poor mental health in later life, according to a new study.
Jun 18, 2020
0
4
In the 1830s, a deadly cholera outbreak reached the city of Paris, France, where it killed approximately 20,000 people in one month. Many of the wealthy fled Paris for the safety of their country homes while poorer people ...
May 11, 2020
0
2
Social distancing may remain necessary during the 18 months or more we'll have to wait for a coronavirus vaccine.
May 1, 2020
0
3
It was a bewildering moment for Zach Jump, the American Lung Association's national director of epidemiology and statistics. The numbers leaped off the computer screen and prompted an immediate question:
Feb 26, 2020
0
3
You can see the gap driving through the main street of Katherine in the Northern Territory.
Dec 20, 2019
0
1
Breast cancer patients who endured Hurricane Katrina in 2005 have a 15% higher mortality rate than those patients not exposed to the storm, according to a University of Michigan researcher.
Oct 29, 2019
0
2
A new UCLA-led analysis of data from the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found that more than half of respondents, 51.2 percent, who had experienced four types of anti-transgender discrimination and violence—losing a job, ...
Sep 12, 2019
0
154
New Medicare reimbursement rules provide some relief to safety-net hospitals, shifting the burden of financial penalties toward hospitals serving wealthier patient populations, according to a new study led by Washington University ...
Apr 15, 2019
0
5
