Archive: 15/11/2016

Genetic counseling helps determine risk for hereditary cancers

Knowing your family history is a key part in understanding your risk factors for certain diseases. While you're gathering with family this Thanksgiving, get to know more about your family's health history and how it could ...

Nov 15, 2016

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Annual survey reveals significant gains in HIV treatment over the past decade

There is compelling evidence that treatment greatly reduces HIV transmission but prevention of the disease remains complex, the latest report by UNSW's Centre for Social Research in Health shows.

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Childhood adversity linked to blood pressure dysfunction

A difficult childhood may be associated with a risk of poor blood pressure regulation, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2016.

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Women with multiple violent partners more likely to have endured childhood trauma, psychological abuse

While there is abundant research on violently abusive relationships, it does not delve into the background of each individual involved, according to University of Michigan researchers.

Nov 15, 2016

iPad apps teach kids just as well as humans: study

Young children learn just as well from interactive media as from face-to-face instruction, a new University of British Columbia study has found.

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Preventing adolescent substance use may need to start in early childhood

Research from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions suggests the approach to preventing alcohol and drug use by some adolescents should begin in early childhood.

Nov 15, 2016

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Battling prejudice still as important decades on

Why is prejudice so persistent?

Nov 15, 2016

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Why lovebirds have better teeth

Being struck by Cupid's arrow can be good for your teeth.

Nov 15, 2016

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The health and social risks of tattooing

Almost half of people between 18 and 35 have tattoos, and almost one in four regrets it, according to a 2016 Harris Poll. Based on an estimate of about 60 million people in that age group, that would mean that about 7.5 million ...

Nov 15, 2016

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Experts outline importance of recognizing, treating meniscal root tears

The menisci, cartilage discs between the joint surfaces in the knee, play an important role in distributing stress across the curved surfaces of the knee. However, tears of the root of the meniscus have been increasingly ...

Nov 15, 2016

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