Pediatrics
Some great ways to fight childhood obesity
(HealthDay)—Childhood obesity is a problem that often follows kids into adulthood, exposing them to serious health threats later in life.
Mar 9, 2018
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Health
Global study finds women hold different views of harassment
Australian women were less likely to consider wolf-whistling in the street, being asked for sex at a social event and a man overstaying his welcome in their home as unacceptable behaviour than women in other countries, research ...
Feb 5, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Public health research seeks to understand how natural disasters impact spread of Zika
On April 16, 2016, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the South American country of Ecuador. It was the most severe seismic event in nearly 40 years – killing roughly 700 people and displacing more than 70,000.
Dec 27, 2017
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Parkinson's disease: A looming pandemic
New research shows that the number of people with Parkinson's disease will soon grow to pandemic proportions. In a commentary appearing today in the journal JAMA Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center neurologist ...
Nov 13, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sequencing test enables precise identification of drug-resistant TB
Two studies led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) document how a new advanced genetic sequencing approach can help thwart the growing worldwide threat ...
Oct 10, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
CDC shutters command center for Zika monitoring
With Zika waning in the Caribbean and South America, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday that the federal agency was deactivating the command center for monitoring and coordinating emergency ...
Oct 3, 2017
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Pediatrics
Anxious moms may give clues about how anxiety develops
Moms may be notorious worriers, but babies of anxious mothers may also spend more time focusing on threats in their environment, according to a team of researchers.
Sep 27, 2017
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Neuroscience
Childhood maltreatment may change brain's response to threat
Neural activity associated with defensive responses in humans shifts between two brain regions depending on the proximity of a threat, suggests neuroimaging data from two independent samples of adults in the Netherlands published ...
Sep 11, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Relationship science: How can couples keep moving forward
For some couples in romantic relationships, just staying together is good enough. But others want to see their relationship move forward—to get better and better—and are willing to put in the effort to get there.
Sep 11, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
80-year-olds as street-savvy as 18-year-olds
Our gut instinct about whether a stranger poses a threat is as good when we're 80 as when we're 18, according to new research.
Aug 28, 2017
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