Archive: 07/03/2018

Study reveals the lonely facts behind suicide in Australian nursing homes

A world first study of suicide amongst Australian nursing home residents has found that 141 people killed themselves while in care over a 13 year period. The study found that the 12 month period surrounding entering the home ...

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Uncertainty leads to treatment delays for young people with mental illness

Stigmas, attitudes of self-reliance and misattributing symptoms led a group of young adults experiencing their first episode of psychosis to delay seeking treatment, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University ...

Mar 7, 2018

College students with autism have high rate of suicidal thoughts

Over the next decade, about 247,000 young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are expected to enroll in universities, colleges, or technical/vocational schools. Because post-secondary education is expected to present ...

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Overdiagnosis—when finding cancer can do more harm than good

Not all cancers are equal.

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Research finds people with intellectual disabilities not receiving support for big decisions

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have found that people with intellectual disabilities receive much lower levels of support and guidance when making difficult decisions, especially those related to legal issues ...

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Dementia patients with distorted memories may actually retain key information – researchers say

Some memories containing inaccurate information can be beneficial to dementia sufferers because it enables them to retain key information researchers say.

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Researchers discover an important clue to help predict disease

The more information you have, the better able you are to predict what will happen next. Clinicians and health researchers often look at gene mutation to predict whether a fetus is at risk for a birth defect, or a person ...

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New imaging technique could improve the diagnosis, treatment of glaucoma

The National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, projects the number of Americans affected by glaucoma will more than double between 2010 and 2050, from 2.7 million to 6.3 million.

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Brain activity at rest provides clue to intelligence

The ability of an adult to learn and to perform cognitive tests is directly linked to how active the brain is at rest, UNSW researchers have found.

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New study shows how multimorbidity restricts life in the elderly

Multiple neuropsychiatric diseases are major predisposing factors for functional decline in older people and may play a greater role in this age-related phenomenon than cardiovascular diseases, according to a new study by ...

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