A new study from Trinity College Dublin highlights that fitness may be a more important clinical endpoint for improvement in patients with fatty liver diseases…
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Food taxes and subsidies could reduce New Zealand’s health inequities
A consumer tax on the saturated fat, salt, and sugar content of food, accompanied by a 20 percent subsidy on fruit and vegetables, would bring…
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People with delusions understand metaphor differently – here’s how it could help explain schizophrenia
Figurative language, by which the speaker intends to communicate something other than what is actually said by the words used, is commonplace in human communication….
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NZ parents concerned children could catch COVID-19 at school, study finds
Parents of school-aged children were very concerned that their children may catch COVID-19 if schools were reopened at Alert Level 3 despite no evidence supporting…
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Could Your Home Be Making You Sick?
Most of us consider our homes or apartments safe havens from the outside world. When we think about threats to our health due to environmental…
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Study suggests 3-D face photos could be a sleep apnea screening tool
Facial features analyzed from 3-D photographs could predict the likelihood of having obstructive sleep apnea, according to a study published in the April issue of…
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How much coronavirus testing is enough? States could learn from retailers as they ramp up
As states develop plans to restart their economies, the big fear is that coronavirus cases will surge again. To keep the pandemic under control, strategic…
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Coronavirus could erode global fight against other diseases
Lavina D’Souza hasn’t been able to collect her government-supplied anti-HIV medication since the abrupt lockdown of India’s 1.3 billion people last month during the coronavirus…
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Samples from those who had COVID-19 could illuminate true infection rate, lethality, vaccines
Researchers in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are adapting an antibody-detection tool to study the aftermath…
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Simple blood test could help reduce heart disease deaths
Scientists at Newcastle University have revealed how a simple blood test could be used to help identify cardiovascular ageing and the risk of heart disease….
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