Opioid addiction is persistently stigmatized, delaying and preventing treatment for many—an urgent problem with overdose deaths continuing to rise. To help alleviate this, various medical ways of describing opioid-related ...
Jan 21, 2021
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Lung cancer kills more than 150,000 Americans each year, accounting for a quarter of all cancer deaths, and remains the nation's No. 1 cancer killer. Though few survive it—just 4.5% to 8% remain alive the five years following ...
Jan 5, 2021
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Hip-hop is one of the world's most popular musical genres. Seven of the 10 most streamed artists in the US are rappers. With almost 50 years of history, hip-hop has evolved to give rise to many sub-genres that appeal to different ...
Dec 9, 2020
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A group of UNSW Sydney researchers has released a groundbreaking report expected to improve the lives of people with bloodborne viruses.
Dec 2, 2020
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Education has long been linked to health—the more schooling people have, the healthier they are likely to be. But a new study from Rice University sociologists found that the health benefits of a good education are less ...
Oct 15, 2020
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From the moment in January when she first heard about the new coronavirus, Suzanne Kathro worried about catching it. In mid-August, she did.
Sep 24, 2020
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While alcohol dependency is becoming increasingly common, it is difficult to obtain help. However, new research presented in a doctoral thesis by Magnus Johansson at Karolinska Institutet shows that web-based CBT is no less ...
Sep 14, 2020
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Links between obesity and complications of COVID-19 have received increasing attention throughout the ongoing pandemic. But a different aspect of body weight—the social stigma that people face because of their weight—may ...
Sep 10, 2020
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The nation with the world's fourth-largest population, Indonesia, has become a target of criticism for its poor COVID-19 mitigation response that "does not value policy advice from external experts". This has contributed ...
Aug 27, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to loneliness in Australia.
Aug 13, 2020
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