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Screen time: The good, the healthy and the mind-numbing

WEBThomas Robinson, MD, professor of pediatrics and of medicine, has been studying the effect of watching mobile and video screens since the early 1990s.But …

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Mental health hygiene can improve mood, decrease stress

WEBSpending even 15 minutes on mental health hygiene each day can bring a host of benefits, from improved mood and better relationships to even deeper …

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Is your brain healthy

WEBDefinitely. Exercise has a very positive impact on brain health. A 2011 study found that for older adults, aerobic training increases the size of the anterior …

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What really happens to our memory as we age

WEBBut you can imagine that memory loss is part of the general atrophy and slowing down that happens to all parts of our bodies with age. We know there's a slight …

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WEBGenome-wide association studies can lay the groundwork to more precisely assess a person’s risk for disease, detect diseases earlier, reveal a molecular …

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How telehealth has exploded during the pandemic and why it is

WEBHow telehealth has exploded during the pandemic and why it is here to stay. Hanae Armitage December 14, 2020. Prior to COVID-19, clinicians at Stanford Medicine …

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How COVID-19 has hurt health care workers' mental health

WEBHelen Santoro January 24, 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a significant toll on our mental health, with many Americans feeling anxious, depressed and hopeless about …

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Why establishing a health baseline is a 'critical starting point for

WEBShare Raise your hand if you want to be more successful at achieving health goals, such as losing weight or lowering your cholesterol levels, and …

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Rethinking hospital diets: personalized, healthy, real food

WEBRethinking hospital diets: personalized, healthy, real food. Cindy Kin, MD, a colorectal surgeon, started viewing food as medicine after lifestyle changes, including a …

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A passion for saving lives, being a voice for health equity

WEBA voice for the voiceless. As we talked about his family, his upbringing and his passion for being a voice for more equality and equity in health care, I asked him about …

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Advance care planning: The importance of expressing your

WEBAdvance health care planning enables people to reflect on what is important to them and what kind of interventions they would want if they become critically ill, says …

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Low-income, older Americans are healthier in affluent communities

WEBStanford Health Policy's Maria Polyakova, PhD, and Lynn Hua, a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, found that older, low-income Americans tend …

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Investigating psychiatric illnesses of mass shooters

WEBThere was enough data to determine a diagnosis on 32 of the 35 shooters studied. Of those, Glick determined that 28 met the diagnostic criteria of at least one …

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AI, medicine and race: Why ending 'structural racism' in health …

WEBEmily Moskal October 20, 2023. As artificial intelligence changes the way medicine is practiced, humans become more beholden to algorithms -- making it crucial to get those …

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Are long COVID sufferers falling through the cracks

WEBNearly 1.2 million people have died from COVID-19, accounting for 2.2% of all deaths since the pandemic began, according to the Centers for Disease Control and …

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Rethinking large language models in medicine

WEBRethinking large language models in medicine. Hanae Armitage August 7, 2023. By now, you've probably turned to a large language model (think ChatGPT) to …

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Recognition of the power of music in medicine is growing

WEBA 2008 study published in Brain: A Journal of Neurology found that music helped people recovering from a stroke with verbal memory and maintaining focus. It …

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More kids are being hospitalized for eating disorders

WEBTheir analysis showed a fairly steady increase in eating disorder hospital admissions for adolescents aged 12 to 21 from 2010 to 2020, a large spike in 2021, and …

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Can altering cancer ‘mindsets’ change physical outcomes

WEBA follow-up assessment showed these mindset changes persisted after the end of the intervention. Participants who went through the modules increased their …

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