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Often missing in the health care debate: Women’s voices

Women, in particular, have a lot at stake in the fight over the future of health care. Not only do many depend on insurance coverage for maternity care and contraception, they are struck more often by such diseases as autoimmune conditions, osteoporosis, breast cancer and depression.

17 Aug 2017

Healthcare, medical experts to come together for mHealth Israel conference in Jerusalem

More than 500 healthcare and medical experts and entrepreneurs from more than 20 countries are set to come together for the mHealth Israel conference, to take place in Jerusalem, September 14, 2017.

16 Aug 2017

Social media images can be used to identify depression, says study

New research published in the EPJ Data Science, suggests that people, just like signaling their sadness through behavior and body language, can also reflect their depression through images in their social media.

8 Aug 2017

Study: Media portrayals of pregnant, postpartum women tend to be unrealistic

Whether it's a pregnant character on a TV show or a photo spread heralding a celebrity's rapid recovery of her pre-pregnancy physique, media portrayals of pregnant and postpartum women tend to be unrealistic, women said in a new study.

8 Aug 2017

CASyM consortium releases updated roadmap for implementation of Systems Medicine in Europe

From 2012 until 2017 the multidisciplinary consortium CASyM with representatives from academia, research institutes, clinical centres as well as funding bodies, Industry and SMEs joined forces to build a vision and a practical strategy (roadmap) for the implementation of Systems Medicine across Europe.

1 Aug 2017

Emergence of diabetes could be monitored using our Google searches

The emergence of Type 2 Diabetes could be more effectively monitored using our Google searches - helping public health officials keep track of the disease and halt its spread - according to research by the University of Warwick.

26 Jul 2017

Fake pictures go undetected by most people says new study

A new unique study from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom looked at a group of participants and asked them to detect digitally manipulated fake images. They found that one third of the fake and altered images went undetected by most participants. The study entitled “Can people identify original and manipulated photos of real-world scenes?” was published in the journal Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.

18 Jul 2017

Internet-connected smart hearing aid: a life changing solution?

Oticon Opn is a hearing aid that allows connection to a smartphone and supports all the internet-enabled connectivity that you have on the internet that smart devices support. We have specifically chosen a web-based community called “If This Then That” (IFTTT) because it is a relatively very easy to use third party service that is supported by a lot of the large global device manufacturers.

12 Jul 2017

The union that roars: Nurses aren’t giving up on California’s single-payer push

To some, the California Nurses Association's political tactics in pushing for a single-payer health system seemed a bit, well, extreme.

11 Jul 2017

Social media worries young girls into vaginal surgery, say doctors

Girls as young as nine are undergoing surgery to have their labia reduced due to insecurities stemming from social media and pornography, according to leading doctors.

3 Jul 2017

Safe under the ACA, patients with preexisting conditions now fear bias

Cheasanee Huette, a 20-year-old college student in Northern California, is worried. Two years ago, knowing she was protected by the Affordable Care Act's guarantees of coverage for preexisting conditions, she decided to find out if she carried the same genetic mutation that eventually killed her mother.

29 Jun 2017

Girls may suffer more severe emotional consequences from digital dating abuse than boys

Teens expect to experience some digital forms of abuse in dating, but girls may be suffering more severe emotional consequences than boys, according to a new study.

28 Jun 2017

Legal cannabis laws influence consumption patterns among adolescents, study finds

A new study by researchers at Dartmouth has found that adolescents living in medical marijuana states with a plethora of dispensaries are more likely to have tried new methods of cannabis use, such as edibles and vaping, at a younger age than those living in states with fewer dispensaries.

27 Jun 2017

Smart phones in the hands of kids too early !

In an alarming new finding from the recent Australian Child Health Poll it has been seen that nearly one third of preschoolers and two thirds of primary school aged children are owners of smart phones. If not owners, one in two kids are using these smart phones unsupervised, the poll finds.

20 Jun 2017

Six in ten mothers criticized about parenting skills, new report finds

Some mommy-shaming "wars" become national news headlines. Actress Reese Witherspoon was recently food-shamed for feeding her toddler cinnamon buns for breakfast. Critics were quick to judge model Coco Rocho for giving her baby formula.

19 Jun 2017

New guide confronts unspoken subject of men’s incontinence

Around one in four people encounter bowel or bladder instability during their lives, so to show support for World Continence Week, and also Men’s Health Awareness Week, NRS Healthcare have created a guide confronting the unspoken subject of men’s incontinence.

13 Jun 2017

Internet withdrawal causes physiological changes in digitally-dependent people

Scientists and clinicians from Swansea and Milan have found that some people who use the internet a lot experience significant physiological changes such as increased heart rate and blood pressure when they finish using the internet.

31 May 2017

AED publishes World Eating Disorders Healthcare Rights document to promote better care

The Academy for Eating Disorders is proud to announce the release of the World Eating Disorders Healthcare Rights, an important document developed by the AED's Patient/Carer Committee in an effort to promote excellence in eating disorders care by leveraging patient, carer, and professional partnerships.

30 May 2017

Complex impacts of mobile technology on child and adolescent development

A new special section of Child Development shows how particularly diverse the use of mobile technology is among children and adolescents, and points to great complexity in the effects of that usage.

30 May 2017