Psychology & Psychiatry
Parents can ease their teens' stress around standardized tests
Standardized tests put a lot of pressure on teenagers who want to secure their future and make their parents and teachers proud.
Apr 12, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Appeasing the wheezing: Determinants and outcomes of respiratory disease in childhood
Asthma and cystic fibrosis are diseases that affect the lungs of children and adults. Previous research has shown that genetic and environmental factors during pregnancy and early childhood can contribute to the way children ...
Jan 29, 2024
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Study finds significant disparities in diagnosis and treatment of dementia
A new study from UC Davis Health and Oregon Health & Science University reveals significant disparities in dementia care. The researchers found that people living with dementia from minoritized racial and ethnic populations ...
Jan 24, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Gender discrimination may be making parts of the female brain thinner
A large international team of neuroscientists, psychologists and mental health specialists has found evidence that gender discrimination during the formative years may be making parts of the female brain thinner. In their ...
Pediatrics
Final exams don't have to be high stress for your teen
Final exams are stressful for students, but it is possible to ratchet down the pressure with some planning and self-compassion.
Dec 19, 2022
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Surgery
Hair transplant fad turns deadly in India
All that balding Indian television executive Athar Rasheed wanted was to look handsome and get married. But the 30-year-old's seemingly harmless hair transplant went fatally wrong.
Dec 2, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study finds rate of multiple sclerosis similarly high in Black and white people
The rate of multiple sclerosis (MS) cases varies greatly by race and ethnicity. A new study suggests that the prevalence of MS in Black and white people is similarly high, while much lower in Hispanic and Asian people. The ...
Apr 27, 2022
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HIV & AIDS
Better understanding impact of shame on HIV patients can help improve healthcare, study argues
Ensuring healthcare workers better understand the psychological, social and physical impacts of shame on HIV patients will help improve their medical treatment, a study argues.
Dec 7, 2021
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Health
Men and women live longer in countries with higher gender parity
In advance of International Women's Day (Sunday, March 8), new research from the WORLD Policy Analysis Center at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (WORLD) shows that in countries where gender parity is high, both ...
Mar 6, 2020
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Health
Reduce cyberslacking and increase physical activity with a tap, a click or a kick
An innovative wearable technology for standing desks that creates a new way of interacting with your computer could reduce cyberslacking and increase healthy movement.
Jun 6, 2016
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