Children born prematurely, i.e. before week 37, are more likely to be placed outside the home as a supportive child welfare measure than their full-term counterparts, according to a population study conducted by the Finnish ...
Dec 27, 2019
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The impact of animal-assisted interventions for both patients and health services could be substantial, but more rigorous research is needed, says Dr. Elena Ratschen and Professor Trevor Sheldon from the University of York.
Dec 18, 2019
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It has long been believed that people can't change their personalities, which are largely stable and inherited. But a review of recent research in personality science points to the possibility that personality traits can ...
Dec 12, 2019
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More isn't always better. That's what researchers say when it comes to transparency in the U.S. healthcare system. This research, forthcoming in the INFORMS journal Operations Research, finds that in the short-term, patients ...
Dec 11, 2019
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Laughter is the best medicine, except when it is actually the symptom of an illness. Medical residents at the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) helped to find relief for a man who suffered from nearly a lifelong affliction that ...
Nov 20, 2019
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Most people can continue to eat red and processed meat as they do now.
Sep 30, 2019
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Vegetarian (including vegan) and pescetarian diets may be linked to a lower risk of coronary heart disease, or CHD for short, than diets that include meat, suggest the findings of a large UK study published in The BMJ today.
Sep 4, 2019
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Whenever a healthy infant dies suddenly, that death should be investigated to determine if abuse or neglect was the cause.
Aug 27, 2019
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The Western world is aging, and someone is going to have to care for all those old folks. But who?
Aug 19, 2019
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The birth rate in England and Wales is now the lowest it has ever been since records began. Only 11 babies were born for every 1,000 people in 2018, with 657,076 born overall. To put this in perspective, 957,782 babies were ...
Aug 14, 2019
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