A new study finds that use of antibiotics is quite common among terminal patients who are in hospice care. The researchers used data based on the electronic health records of adults patients discharged to hospice care from Oregon Health & Science University over a three-year period ending in 2013.
Fewer older Americans are having strokes and those who do suffer a stroke have a lower risk of dying from them, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
A new study by researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing finds that despite warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that hookah smoking can be just as dangerous as cigarettes, many young adults believe that using the water pipes is not harmful.
Adults who have dyslexia are much more likely to report they were physically abused before they turned 18 than their peers without dyslexia, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence have launched the ASK (Asking Saves Kids) campaign to encourage parents to ask if there is a locked, loaded gun in the home before a child goes out for a playdate. According to the AAP, one out of three homes with children in the U.S. has a gun, nearly 1.7 million children live in a home with a loaded, unlocked gun. Every year, thousands of kids are killed and injured as a result.
Recent research by social scientists at Wayne State University show that the physical presence of romantic partners in intergroup friendships – friendships with different racial and ethnic groups, religious groups, or sexual orientations – positively influences interactions with people who are perceived to be different from themselves.
The American Academy of Pediatrics held a day long symposium on Child Health, Resilience & Toxic Stress in Washington, DC last week. According to the AAP, science shows that adversity experienced in childhood has long-lasting physical and emotional effects.
A new study by researchers at Dartmouth University finds that 12 minutes of exercise can improve attention and reading comprehension in low-income adolescents. The researchers say the findings suggest that schools with low income populations should include exercise periods into their daily schedules.
More than 29 million people in the United States have diabetes, up from the previous estimate of 26 million in 2010, according to a report released recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new report also found that Non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaska Native adults are about twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes as non-Hispanic white adults.
The Food and Drug Administration recently proposed rules that would govern e-cigarette advertising but currently can only enforce advertising of the devices when they are marketed as smoking cessation devices. A new study, published in Pediatrics, has found that in the absence of regulations for advertising e-cigarettes for recreational smoking, e-cigarette advertising has increased two-fold for youth and three-fold for young adults in the U.S. in the past two years.