A new study from Mayo Clinic finds that socially isolated people are more likely to show signs of being biologically older than their age and more likely to die from a variety of causes. The research, published in the Journal ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Food abstinence is all the rage when it comes to health and well-being, it seems. Wherever you look, from the UK's prime minister, Rishi Sunak, to Hollywood celebrities like Thor star Chris Hemsworth, someone's extolling ...
Mar 15, 2024
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Imagine a disease more infectious than any other known to medical science, that would kill 2.6 million young children every year and leave millions more with deafness and even brain damage. It sounds like something from pandemic ...
Jan 20, 2024
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When Idaho had a rare measles outbreak a few months ago, health officials scrambled to keep it from spreading. In the end, 10 people, all in one family, were infected, all unvaccinated.
Dec 20, 2023
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Almost all sexually-experienced women of reproductive age have used contraception, according to a study published online Dec. 14 in the National Health Statistics Reports, a publication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...
Dec 15, 2023
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Does thinking about faith make religious people more likely to take leaps? A new study lead by York University's Faculty of Health says yes, finding that participants were more likely to take risks when thinking about God ...
Dec 14, 2023
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Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine found that partnering with local religious leaders boosted adoption of family planning methods in Tanzania. The findings present a novel strategy for increasing global awareness and use ...
Nov 16, 2023
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After surveying the views expressed by 41 advocacy, medical, and transplant-focused organizations on the Uniform Determination of Death Act, a brain injury expert is calling for much-needed reforms to the legal definition ...
Oct 25, 2023
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Religious discrimination from one's peers has a far greater impact on an individual's mental health than exclusionary organizational policies, according to a new study from Rice University's Boniuk Institute for the Study ...
Sep 21, 2023
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The American College of Physicians (ACP) has issued a new paper addressing current controversies about the standards for determining death, supporting a clarification to the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) but otherwise ...
Sep 4, 2023
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