Psychology & Psychiatry
Your kid is having a meltdown in the supermarket: What to do in tough parenting moments
You walk into a room. You are going to play a game. Your competitors? Other parents.
Dec 16, 2021
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Health
Good vaccine news counters online skepticism, but only for a limited time
Researchers at Oxford University's Department of Psychiatry and Sweden's Karolinska Institute have analyzed social media to investigate associations between vaccine-related major news announcements, and attitudes towards ...
Dec 14, 2021
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Health
New poll: Major spike among American adults skipping medical treatment due to cost
Nearly one-third (30%) of Americans skipped needed medical care in the past three months due to cost, the highest reported number since the COVID-19 pandemic began and a threefold increase from March to October, according ...
Dec 14, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists identify animal model for two emerging tick-borne hemorrhagic viruses
Pigtailed macaques are a candidate model organism for two hemorrhagic diseases of public health concern: Kyasanur Forest disease and Alkhurma hemorrhagic disease, report Rebecca Broeckel at the National Institutes of Health ...
Dec 2, 2021
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Medical research
Experiments challenge cognitive-map hypothesis in mice
A team of researchers at the Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, in the U.K. reports a study that challenges the cognitive-map hypothesis for animals. In their paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, ...
Medications
3 essential questions on antibiotic resistance
Melinda Pettigrew, Ph.D., the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Epidemiology, researches the growing public health threat posed by antibiotic resistance. She uses microbiology and infectious disease epidemiology to identify factors ...
Aug 4, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
French COVID cases rising at unprecedented rate: health minister
French Health Minister Olivier Veran said Tuesday that new COVID-19 infections were increasing at an unprecedented rate due to the Delta variant, after 18,000 cases were reported for the previous 24 hours.
Jul 20, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
1 in 7 doctors in Norway exposed to violence from patients
According to a survey following doctors over 20 years, nearly four out of ten doctors have been the target of threats from a patient during the first four years after graduation and one in seven doctors have been physically ...
Jul 13, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Measuring continuous traumatic stress impact
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed the first methodology to assess symptoms associated with continuous exposure to traumatic stress from rocket attacks and other security threats, which ...
Jun 22, 2021
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Medical research
HIV 40 years on: Four action points to end AIDS as a health threat
On 5 June 1981 a short report of five cases of pneumocystis pneumonia in young homosexual men in Los Angeles marked the discovery of AIDS, the first pandemic of the 20th century caused by a completely new virus, HIV.
Jun 8, 2021
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