Introducing Peanuts Early in Life Reduces Allergies
If your head spins from all the food research reversals, you re not alone. Despite a 2010 report stating that there was no reason to delay introducing potentially allergenic foods to kids, most parents are afraid to go there. I understand. We ve been fully educated on the perils kids face with regard to eating something that could produce an allergic reaction. And habits in this case feeding habit ...
Psychology Today - Tue. Mar 8
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When Is Depression Not Depression? Part 4
You feel sad and the world seems without color or flavor. You do not see the point of getting out of bed, but you have felt like this for several days and there are things that need to be done, so you get moving. This feels a lot like a depression , but there is a good reason to feel this way you are grieving . When depression is grief, the feelings can be very similar, and can last for some time. ...
Psychology Today - Tue. Mar 8
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Time spent playing video games may have positive effects on young children
Video games are a favorite activity of children, yet its affect on their health is often perceived to be negative. A study by researchers at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues at Paris Descartes University assessed the association between the amount of time spent playing video games and children s mental health and cognitive and social skills, and found that playing video game ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Mar 8
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Do gun restrictions help reduce gun deaths?
A study by researchers at Columbia University s Mailman School of Public Health looked at the associations between firearm-related laws and firearm homicides, suicides, and unintentional injuries and deaths. The paper is the first to explore the evidence from around the world on gun laws and gun violence to determine whether gun restrictions help reduce gun deaths. While the research did not concl ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Mar 8
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Risk of being involved in an avalanche less for smaller groups of recreationists
Philadelphia, PA, March 8, 2016 - Avalanches are the primary hazard for winter backcountry recreationists and cause numerous deaths and injuries annually. As winter backcountry activities increase in popularity, avalanches are a very real risk for adventurers who choose to travel off the beaten path. A new study reported in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine explored the risk of avalanche accid ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Mar 8
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How weight affects 'wait!'
Child development experts already know obese children are at greater risk than their peers for developing high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, diabetes, and joint problems. Now, researchers at the University of Iowa have added another concern to the list pedestrian injury. It s not because overweight and obese kids can t cross the street fast enough. Rather, in a study involving traffic s ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Mar 8
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Brain activity of nematodes seeking food offers new view on sleep
EUGENE, Ore. -- March 8, 2016 -- If you have trouble sleeping, the neurons in your brain may be firing like those in roundworms randomly seeking food in the absence of clues, says University of Oregon biologist Shawn R. Lockery. That connection is proposed in a theoretical neuroscience paper co-authored by 12 researchers at 10 institutions that is in the journal eLife . The research -- 14 years in ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Mar 8
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Holding mirror to docs who overprescribe addictive drugs doesn't stem prescrip...
Researchers at Columbia University s Mailman School of Public Health, with colleagues at the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS , conducted a randomized trial of informative letters aimed at suspected inappropriate prescribers of addictive substances like opioids and amphetamines. Top pr ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Mar 8
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Variation in medical marijuana program regulations impacts enrollment
NEW YORK, NY March 7, 2016 - A study published today in Health Affairs found that while 14 of the nation s 24 medical marijuana programs were essentially nonmedical in practice, they enrolled more than 99 percent of overall participants. Fewer than one percent were enrolled in medicalized programs that adhere to accepted professional standards in medicine. More than one million people participate ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Mar 8
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More than 2 million people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C
An estimated 2.3 million people living with HIV are co-infected with hepatitis C virus HCV globally, a new study by the University of Bristol and the London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine has found. Of these, more than half, or 1.3 million, are people who inject drugs PWID . The study also found that HIV-infected people are on average six times more likely than HIV-uninfected people to have H ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Mar 8
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Most Pediatricians Don't Ask About Mom's Depression
Fewer than half of pediatricians in the United States ask mothers about depression, even though the condition affects many women with young children, a new study reveals. Maternal depression is often overlooked and untreated because women with mental health issues do not routinely access health care for themselves, study co-author Dr. Ruth Stein, an attending physician at the Children s Hospital a ...
Healthday - Mon. Mar 7
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Five Facts to Help Us Realize That #NativeLivesMatter, Too
The tragic deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, and Samuel Dubose along with stories of many other black individuals who were harassed, imprisoned, or killed have brought intense national attention on racism once again. It s not that racism went away and has all of a sudden resurfaced racism never went away Perhaps racism just beca ...
Psychology Today - Mon. Mar 7
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