Health
Educated women increasingly likely to have 1st baby before marriage
College-educated women are much more likely than ever before to have a first child outside of marriage, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds.
Sep 6, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Syphilitic City: one in five Georgian Londoners had syphilis, study suggests
250 years ago, over one-fifth of Londoners had contracted syphilis by their 35th birthday, historians have calculated.
Jul 6, 2020
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Health
Medicaid expansion improved coverage more for married versus unmarried people
New research suggests that, under the United States' Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), expanded Medicaid coverage has provided greater improvements in health insurance coverage for married people, especially ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Cardiology
Marriage reduces the risk of heart attack in both men and women and at all ages
A large population-based study from Finland has shown that being unmarried increases the risk of fatal and non-fatal heart attack in both men and women whatever their age. Conversely, say the study investigators, especially ...
Jan 31, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The secrets of Ireland's psychiatric hospitals
Mother and baby homes were institutions where unmarried women were sent to have their babies, often arriving destitute having been denied support by the child's father, and even their own family, simply for falling pregnant ...
Jan 26, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Inequality faced by parents with intellectual disabilities
The federal government and five state governments in Australia have now apologised for forced adoption of babies from mothers in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. During those times there was a belief that young and unmarried women ...
Nov 6, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Man and life: How marriage, race and ethnicity and birthplace affect cancer survival
Previous studies have shown that married patients with cancer fare better than unmarried cancer patients, surviving more often and longer. In a new study, published April 11 in the journal Cancer, researchers at University ...
Apr 11, 2016
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Health
Refugee and migrant women require additional sexual and reproductive health support
A Western Sydney University report has revealed that a cycle of misinformation, shyness and fear is preventing migrant and refugee women from receiving adequate sexual and reproductive health care and support.
Aug 15, 2017
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Cardiology
Divorce and low socioeconomic status carry higher risk of second heart attack or stroke
Heart attack survivors who are divorced or have low socioeconomic status have a higher risk of a second attack, according to research from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, published today in the European Journal ...
Apr 17, 2018
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Health
Married women more likely to have positive pregnancies, study finds
(HealthDay)—Compared with unmarried women, married women are less likely to experience domestic abuse, substance abuse or postpartum depression around the time of pregnancy, a new study finds.
Jan 3, 2013
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