Pediatrics
Polluted air can negatively impact children's test scores, finds study
A new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health finds air pollution may negatively impact standardized test scores.
Nov 16, 2023
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Medications
At-home COVID-19 tests: A Mayo Clinic expert answers questions on expiration dates and the new variants
At-home COVID-19 tests allow you to collect your sample and detect active COVID-19 infections.
Sep 20, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
People's everyday pleasures may improve cognitive arousal and performance
Listening to music and drinking coffee are the sorts of everyday pleasures that can impact a person's brain activity in ways that improve cognitive performance, including in tasks requiring concentration and memory.
Aug 8, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
We've been studying the same people for 76 years—this is what we've found out about Alzheimer's disease
In March 1946, just months after the end of the second world war, James Douglas began a pioneering and extraordinary study. Based on a representative sample of 5,362 babies all born in the same week of that month, the study ...
Nov 14, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Team develops method to identify future SARS-CoV-2 mutations that could affect rapid antigen test performance
A research team has shown that commercially available rapid antigen tests can detect past and present variants of concern and has identified potential mutations that may impact test performance in the future. As new variants ...
Sep 15, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
This simple blood test can tell if a snakebite was dry or full of venom
The increased availability of D-Dimer testing—a blood test that checks for, or monitors, blood-clotting problems—may be a vital aid to the early diagnosis of venom-induced consumption coagulopathy (VICC), the most frequent ...
Jun 27, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Video games can boost children's intelligence: study
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have studied how the screen habits of U.S. children correlates with how their cognitive abilities develop over time. They found that the children who spent an above-average time ...
May 13, 2022
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Diabetes
Parental type 1 diabetes can affect children's cognitive development
Cognitive development in children could be affected regardless of which biological parent has type 1 diabetes, according to research publishing April 19th in the open access journal PLOS Medicine. The research shows for the ...
Apr 26, 2022
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Health
Student-led study finds just 15% of CBD-infused oil, beverages, and other products are labeled correctly
In 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription medication derived from cannabis sativa: Epidiolex. Used to treat seizures, Epidiolex is purified formulation of cannabidiol (CBD) and has been ...
Mar 25, 2022
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Medical research
New study suggests that breastfeeding may help prevent cognitive decline
A new study led by researchers at UCLA Health has found that women over the age of 50 who had breastfed their babies performed better on cognitive tests compared to women who had never breastfed. The findings, published in ...
Oct 22, 2021
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