Families with children who work full time may have been concerned by media reports this week suggesting that “too much” time in early childhood education and care could harm their child’s development. Source link
Treatment of chronic diseases may involve intensive programs designed to change people’s diet, exercise, and other health behaviors. But a typical program, while full of information and advice, may ignore a basic reality: People may have a variety of behavioral barriers to improvement in their lives. Source link
Imagine you’re standing in line at your favorite bakery and deciding whether to get a donut or a tart. You weigh them, the donut wins, and you’re stuck with it. However, by the time you’re at the front of the line, there are only tarts left. So, you buy one. These two decisions seem completely…
Return to alcohol after alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is strongly associated with recurrent liver disease and death. Of those hospitalized for AH, 30% die within 90 days. In survivors, alcohol use is key to outcomes. The risk of relapse following AH is modified and reduced in patients treated for alcohol use disorder (AUD). Source link
Older hospitalized patients who struggled to take their medications correctly were 10% less likely to need to return to the hospital if they had help from a pharmacist at the time of discharge, according to a new multisite clinical trial based at Cedars-Sinai. But the findings, published in JAMA Network Open, showed that the extra…
Poor diet remains the leading cause of ischemic heart disease, according to an analysis of 204 countries over a 30-year period published in Nature Medicine. The authors estimated that the suboptimal diet associated with this disease was responsible for more than 4 million ischemic heart disease-related deaths and approximately 97 million total disability-adjusted life years…
A groundbreaking new study tracking nearly 2,000 young Australians for a decade has challenged long-held beliefs about depression and physical health, finding that sleep disruption was a stronger predictor of later insulin resistance than weight gain. Research from the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Center found that while weight gain is not the main…
What if chronic diseases, which are difficult to treat with medicine alone, could be managed with electricity? As “neuromodulation” – a technique that restores physical balance by sending signals directly to nerves – attracts attention, a Korean research team has brought this possibility one step closer to reality. Source link
Imagine that we would be able to assess how healthy the frontal lobes of our eyes are, not only in hospitals, but also in remote eye-check-up camps, elderly-care facilities, pharmacies, or even train stations. This is the future, a research team led by Professor Toru Nakazawa at Tohoku University’s Graduate School of Medicine is working…
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that robs a person of their memory, ability to think, and eventually the ability to perform basic functions. A recent study has provided further evidence that the disease may be spread through rare childhood medical treatments that are not used today. Source link
