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Cancer patients can quit smoking through lengthened medication time, counseling support

25.01.2019 Health Problems

Quitting smoking can significantly improve the effectiveness of cancer treatment, according to the U.S. Surgeon General, yet almost half of cancer patients continue to smoke after they’ve been diagnosed. A new study from Northwestern Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania found cancer patients have better success quitting and are not as prone to relapsing one year later […]

Can you pick an MMA winner by studying fighters’ faces?

23.01.2019 Health Problems

With the UFC set to appear in Prague for the first time this February 23rd, Czech researchers at Charles University have been getting into the fighting spirit. “Recent research shows that humans are capable of inferring fighting ability from facial and body cues,” says Dr. Vit Trebicky, lead author of a new study in Frontiers in Psychology. “But our latest […]

Liver cancer patients can be treated for Hep C infection

18.01.2019 Health Problems

A large, multi-center study refutes earlier suggestions that antiviral drugs for treating hepatitis C may lead to a higher recurrence of liver cancer. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center studied the records of patients who had been successfully treated for liver cancer at 31 medical centers in North America, comparing those who were and were not given direct-acting antivirals for […]

How parents and teachers can identify and help young people self-medicating trauma with drugs and alcohol

05.12.2018 Health Problems

Some 80% of young people will experience a traumatic event by the time they become an adult. Rates of exposure to trauma peak during adolescence. The stress from traumatic events can result in a loss of interest in school, friends, hobbies, and life in general. The types of traumatic events include a wide range of terrifying and life-threatening experiences such […]

Extract from soursop leaves can prevent the symptoms of fibromyalgia

28.11.2018 Health Problems

Researchers from the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Seville have recently published a study reporting that diets supplemented with aqueous extract of Annona muricata L. leaves can prevent symptoms associated with fibromyalgia, improving the lives of patients. Leaves of the species are oblong and egg-like or oblong and elliptical in shape, and between five and 15 cm in […]

Why screen time can disrupt sleep—scientists uncover how certain retinal cells respond to artificial illumination

28.11.2018 Health Problems

For most, the time spent staring at screens—on computers, phones, iPads—constitutes many hours and can often disrupt sleep. Now, Salk Institute researchers have pinpointed how certain cells in the eye process ambient light and reset our internal clocks, the daily cycles of physiological processes known as the circadian rhythm. When these cells are exposed to artificial light late into the […]

10% of bowel cancer patients can wait more than a year to start treatment

28.11.2018 Health Problems

It can take up to a year for some bowel cancer patients in the UK to start treatment, according to international research co-ordinated by Cancer Research UK and published in the BMJ Open today. Researchers found that it took a year or more from first spotting a symptom to beginning treatment for 10% of patients in England, Northern Ireland and […]

Touch can produce detailed, lasting memories

27.11.2018 Health Problems

Exploring objects through touch can generate detailed, durable memories for those objects, even when we don’t intend to memorize the object’s details, according to findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “An especially interesting finding was that participants were able to visually identify an object they had never seen but only touched one week […]

Research shows how service dogs can help veterans with PTSD

06.11.2018 Health Problems

For veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, service dogs might be able to offer both behavioral and physiological benefits to help counter some of those symptoms, according to research that is being led by the Purdue College of Veterinary Medicine. Maggie O’Haire, assistant professor of human-animal interaction in the College of Veterinary Medicine, is at the forefront of the research […]

Can We Stop Glorifying Hot Mess Mom Yet?

29.10.2018 Kids Health

We live in a world that glorifies chaos under the pretense of reassurance and inclusivity. Your house is a mess? Totally OK. Your kids are a mess? So are everyone else’s. You’re a mess? It’s all OK. Bring on the mess. Yay for hot mess mom. And it is OK if you’re genuinely OK with it, and not because popular […]

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