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Behavioral risk factors including smoking, obesity, limited physical activity and a less healthy diet...
Behavioral risk factors including smoking, obesity, limited physical activity and a less healthy diet strongly predict the likelihood of depression—and that likelihood increases with...
People who inject drugs : recent incarceration was associated with an 81 per cent...
Injecting drug use, through the sharing of needles, syringes and other injecting equipment, is a primary route of transmission for both HIV and hepatitis...
A community-randomized clinical trial of the Children’s Healthy Living Program (CHL) has decreased overweight...
A community-randomized clinical trial of the Children's Healthy Living Program (CHL), based at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, seeking to sustainably prevent and...
Zika virus has been detected in dead monkeys found in Brazil
Zika virus has been detected in dead monkeys found in Brazil near São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo State, and Belo Horizonte, Minas...
Individual cells within the same heart cope differently with high blood pressure
Individual cells within the same heart cope differently with high blood pressure, according to a study in human cells and mice by a team...
In the United States, suicide is twice as common as homicide
In the United States, suicide is twice as common as homicide—and more often involves firearms—but public perception is just the opposite.
News reports, movies and...
Ninety-five percent of commonly downloaded apps marketed to or played by children ages 5...
From games inspired by popular TV shows to digital play labeled as educational, children's apps continue to explode on smartphones and tablets.
But parents may...
Epigenetic : our diet, our habits or traumatic experiences can have consequences for the...
Evidence has been building in recent years that our diet, our habits or traumatic experiences can have consequences for the health of our children—and...
Seneca Valley virus sounds like the last bug you’d want to catch, but it...
Seneca Valley virus sounds like the last bug you'd want to catch, but it could be the next breakthrough cancer therapy.
Now, scientists at the...
Too much time spent on gaming, smartphones and watching television is linked to heightened...
Too much time spent on gaming, smartphones and watching television is linked to heightened levels and diagnoses of anxiety or depression in children as...
Children with Down syndrome : naps may hinder learnin
A growing body of research has linked sleep with improved learning and memory consolidation in both children and adults.
Yet, a new study done at...
The transmission speed of neurons fluctuates in the brain to achieve an optimal flow...
The transmission speed of neurons fluctuates in the brain to achieve an optimal flow of information required for day-to-day activities, according to a National...
Research PNAS : Rich people don’t live that much longer than the poor
New research results, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), challenge previous findings of huge differences in life expectancy between the...
Israeli satellite images have documented one of the S-300 batteries given by Russia to...
An Israeli spy satellite has spotted their location northwest of the town of Masyaf in the mountain region, about 30 km from the Mediterranean...
SIM card, dubbed as Onion3G, will route your data automatically via Tor and prevent...
Privacy concerns are rising with the advancement of technology. Today, we need to be a lot more careful about online browsing than we needed...
