Tag: studies

Incidence of Infants Sharing a Bed Rising, Says NIH
The NIH this week revealed results from the National Infant Sleep Position Study that show that the incidence of infants sharing a bed with an adult or another child has more than...
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Health Insurance Marketplaces Open Tomorrow, Fewer Than Half of Americans Know
Tomorrow one of the biggest changes in U.S. healthcare in decades is scheduled to take effect. Millions of Americans who have never had access to health insurance will be able to...
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Do You Google Yourself? If So, You’re in the Majority
If you say that you never give in to temptation and Google yourself, well, there's a pretty strong chance that you're lying. According to...
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Stroke Risk Cut by Vitamin B, Shows Study
A new study published recently in the journal Neurology has shown that vitamin B supplements could help cut the ris...
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Insulin Pump Sensors Reduce Hypoglycemia, Shows Study
A new study published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows that certain sensors on insulin pumps can significantly decrease hypoglycemic episodes i...
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Video Game Addiction Risk-Factors Pinpointed by New Study
Do you obsessively collect gaming achievements or often 100% games with tons of mindless collectibles? Do you find it hard to let your guild down by taking a week off of raiding?...
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Wide-Faced Selfishness Influences Others, Shows Study
A new study published this week in the journal PLOS ONE shows that wide-faced men can influence other people to act selfishly. Researchers from the University of Californ...
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Almost Half of U.S. Births are Paid For by Medicaid
According to a new report out from George Washington University, 45% of births in the U.S. in 2010 were paid for by Medicaid, up slightly from 43% in 2008. That amounts to 1.8 mil...
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Obesity, Insulin Resistance Linked to Body’s Fructose
Over the past few decades, Americans have gotten larger. So large, in fact, that health authorities are now referring to obesity in the U.S. as an epidemic as they battle even...
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New Anti-Smoking Campaign Successful, Says CDC
Anyone who watched TV, or even just YouTube last spring has seen the ads. Men and women giving "tips" from their personal experiences with...
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Less Sleep Leads to More Calories, Shows Study
For people with more to do and ever less time to do it in, poor sleep habits and a bad diet are almost an inevitability. Now, a new study has shown that those poor sleep habits mi...
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Yelling at Kids Nearly as Bad as Hitting Them, Shows Study
It's generally agreed upon in modern cultures that hitting children, even as punishment, is bad. The effects of physical abuse on children have been well-documented in recent deca...
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Yelp Will Help Your Business, According To This Study
There's been a lot of controversy surrounding Yelp and the impact the online review service can have on small businesses. This has included everything from fake reviews to alleged...
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Fruits Linked to Lower Diabetes Risk
The common admonishment for children to eat their fruits and vegetables may have more truth behind it than most common food adages. A new study from researchers at the Harvard Sch...
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Women Who Drink Before Bearing Children Have Higher Breast Cancer Risk
Drinking has become a pastime at some U.S. universities, but women who drink heavily in the years leading up to motherhood could be putting themselves at risk. A new...
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