Psychology & Psychiatry
Video games could improve kids' brains: study
Parents often worry about the harmful impacts of video games on their children, from mental health and social problems to missing out on exercise.
Oct 29, 2022
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Health
Teen alcohol misuse is a driver of poorer health and dissatisfaction in midlife
Alcohol misuse in adolescence affects physical health and life satisfaction over multiple decades, outcomes that are driven by ongoing alcohol problems, a new study has found. The link between teen drinking and poor health ...
Sep 19, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nearly 1 in 20 UK secondary school children surveyed experienced long COVID
New data from the School Infection Survey (SIS) showed that 1.8% of primary school pupils and 4.8% of secondary school pupils experienced long COVID following their most recent COVID-19 infection (since March 2020).
Jun 16, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
New computer simulation cracks mystery of cancer drug resistance
Imatinib, better known as Gleevec, was hailed as a "miracle" cancer drug when it entered the market in the early 2000s. Though it has been highly successful at treating early-stage chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)—a rare ...
Jun 1, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Study modeling tumor evolution reveals a vulnerability for cancer prevention and therapy
Though the mutations accumulated by cancer cells occur more or less randomly, certain regions of genes essential to cancer growth appear to be more frequently mutated than others in established tumors. Now, a study led by ...
May 11, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Using physics to explain the transmission effects of different SARS-CoV-2 mutations
During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, multiple new and more transmissible variants of the virus have emerged. Understanding how specific mutations affect SARS-CoV-2 transmission could help us to better understand the biology of ...
Feb 7, 2022
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Health informatics
Child abuse and neglect linked to early death in adulthood
Children who experience sexual or physical abuse or are neglected are more likely to die prematurely as adults, according to a new study analyzing data from the 1950s to the present by researchers at UCL and the University ...
Sep 23, 2021
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Vaccination
Contact-tracing apps could improve vaccination strategies
Mathematical modeling of disease spread suggests that herd immunity could be achieved with fewer vaccine doses by using Bluetooth-based contact-tracing apps to identify people who have more exposure to others—and targeting ...
Sep 22, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Understanding the spread of infectious diseases
Scientists worldwide have been working feverishly on research into infectious diseases in the wake of the global outbreak of the COVID-19 disease, caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. This concerns not only virologists, ...
Nov 4, 2020
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Effectiveness of fitness-boosting strategies may be linked to personality traits
In a randomized clinical trial, the effectiveness of different strategies for boosting physical activity varied according to participants' demographic, psychological, and behavioral characteristics. Xisui Shirley Chen formerly ...
Oct 14, 2020
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