Health
Get ready for clocks to 'spring ahead'
If losing an hour of sleep with the switch to Daylight Saving Time on Sunday leaves you feeling tired, you're not alone.
Mar 6, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Public health leaders call for coordinated communication response to COVID-19
On Thursday in the National Academy of Medicine's Perspectives, public health leaders including CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy Distinguished Lecturer Scott Ratzan, MD called for informed and active ...
Mar 5, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Virus epidemic growing by day hits schools, concerts, parks
Japan's schools prepared to close for almost a month and entertainers, topped by K-pop superstars BTS, canceled events as a virus epidemic extended its spread through Asia into Europe and on Friday, into sub-Saharan Africa.
Feb 28, 2020
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Medical research
ARID2 suppresses hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis via DNMT1-snail axis
A recent study led by Dr. XIE Dong's group from Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the role and mechanism of ARID2 in liver cancer metastasis, providing therapeutic targets ...
Feb 24, 2020
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Health
Study links daylight saving time to 28 fatal car accidents per year in the US
Several U.S. states have considered doing away with the practice of changing the clocks forward or back in favor of permanent Daylight Saving Time (DST), while experts around the world suggest permanent Standard Time is a ...
Jan 30, 2020
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Health
Getting a good night's sleep complicated by menopause
The value of a good night's sleep can't be underestimated. Unfortunately, sleep complaints are common during the menopause transition. A new study from Canada compared sleep quality, sleep duration, and sleep disorders between ...
Dec 18, 2019
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Health
Daylight Saving Time has long-term effects on health
The annual transition to and from daylight saving time (DST) has clinical implications that last longer than the days where clocks "fall back" or "spring forward."
Nov 4, 2019
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Neuroscience
Scientists predict the areas of the brain to stimulate transitions between different brain states
A fundamental question in neuroscience is how to force the transition from one brain state to another, for example, from sleep to wakefulness, or in the face of brain pathologies, such as psychiatric diseases and impaired ...
Oct 3, 2019
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Health
Study highlights need to improve health care access in Vancouver, Portland and Seattle
UBC researchers have developed a data science method that analyzes how easily citizens can access hospitals and walk-in health clinics—and it's a tool that could eventually help city planners and policymakers build smarter, ...
Sep 30, 2019
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Health
Hot flashes shown to be linked to increased risk of later cardiovascular disease events
Previous studies suggested an association between hot flashes and cardiovascular (CVD) disease. But little research linked hot flashes to "hard" clinical CVD events like heart attacks and strokes. A new study measuring clinical ...
Sep 24, 2019
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