Pediatrics
Worried about traveling with your kids over the holidays? Read this first
A little preparation can spare parents who travel with their children – and those around them – from feeling the blues this holiday season.
Dec 13, 2018
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Page 15 - News tagged with winter
Psychology & Psychiatry
Antarctic researchers enter a state of 'psychological hibernation,' study finds
Antarctic researchers enter a state of 'psychological hibernation' to cope with the stresses of constant darkness, isolation and confinement, according to a new study.
Dec 4, 2018
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Neuroscience
Understand the danger of concussion as winter sports begin
Youth winter sports are underway, and with a recent increase in national attention on the possible dangers of head trauma for athletes, it is important for coaches, parents and players to recognize symptoms of a concussion ...
Nov 29, 2018
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Medical research
Eyes on ice – medical research from Antarctica
Results from a medical research study at British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research Station – "Impact of long-term daylight deprivation on retinal light sensitivity, circadian rhythms and sleep during the Antarctic winter" ...
Nov 5, 2018
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Cardiology
Heart attacks more frequent in colder weather
Heart attacks happen more frequently in winter, a major Swedish study has confirmed.
Oct 26, 2018
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Medical research
Hamsters may hold the clue to beating obesity
The global obesity crisis shows no signs of abating, and we urgently need new ways to tackle it. Consuming fewer calories and burning more energy through physical activity is a proven way to lose weight, but it's clearly ...
Oct 5, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Why some people get depressed and some don't—clues from the "winter blues"
Depression is notoriously hard to study, but what if you could switch depression on and off and look at the biological differences between when people are depressed and when they are not? Now a study of seasonal depression, ...
Oct 2, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
80,000 people died of flu last winter in US
An estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter—the disease's highest death toll in at least four decades.
Sep 26, 2018
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Dementia symptoms peak in winter and spring, study finds
Adults both with and without Alzheimer's disease have better cognition skills in the late summer and early fall than in the winter and spring, according to a new study published this week in PLOS Medicine by Andrew Lim of ...
Sep 4, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Summer norovirus outbreak could lead to a winter crisis
Apparently there is a bug going around. Local and national press are reporting unusually high numbers of people suffering with diarrhoea and vomiting in Britain this summer. The reports suggest that this is a short-lived ...
Jul 24, 2018
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