Pediatrics

Reducing screen time increases physical activity in children

Many young people spend much of their time using digital screens which may reduce their engagement in physical activity. But children have always been sedentary during most of their awake time. This has been shown every time ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

No-click system doubles hepatitis C screening orders, study finds

Without requiring even one extra mouse click, a randomized clinical trial at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania doubled the rate of hepatitis C screenings among the patients for whom they're ...

Oncology & Cancer

MRI may lower breast cancer deaths from variants in 3 genes

Annual MRI screenings starting at ages 30 to 35 may reduce breast-cancer mortality by more than 50% among women who carry certain genetic changes in three genes, according to a comparative modeling analysis to be published ...

Genetics

Arrhythmia genes more common than previously thought

By sequencing known genes associated with cardiac arrhythmia risk in more than 20,000 people without an indication for genetic testing, scientists were able to identify pathogenic and likely pathogenic variants in nearly ...

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