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Study finds adults with a pro-inflammatory diet have a greater incidence of depression

A new study in Frontiers of Pharmacology finds that antidepressant use during pregnancy is linked to reduced motor skills in children at 2 years old. The Study finds antidepressant use during pregnancy may impact motor skills of child

Overall quality of life appeared good during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the presence of retinal disease and the number of nonocular comorbidities were linked to negative impacts on vision-related quality of life.

Introduction Comprehensive local data on adolescent health are often lacking, particularly in lower resource settings. Furthermore, there are knowledge gaps around which interventions are effective to support healthy behaviours. This study generates health information for students from cities in four middle-income countries to plan, implement and subsequently evaluate a package of interventions to improve health outcomes. Methods and analysis We will conduct a cluster randomised controlled trial...

Epidemiologic studies indicate three broad yet distinct geographic patterns of transmission

A community-based health survey for the time period between 1944 and 1995 was collected from 801 individuals who had lived downwind of the U.S. plutonium production facility located in Hanford, Washington. The results of the survey revealed high incidences of all cancers, including thyroid cancer. T …

Lu Liu and colleagues present an updated systematic review and pooled analysis of depression after stroke.

/PRNewswire/ -- Huma Therapeutics Limited ("Huma"), a leading global digital health company, today announced results of a new study in collaboration with the...

More than 90% of 2,524 participants invited to join a fully virtual COVID-19 study, run by Cambridge researchers, downloaded and registered on the study app1Around 75% of participants completed

Chronic diseases are important risk factors of falls. However, most studies explored the effect of a single chronic disease on falls and few studies explored the combined effect of multiple chronic diseases on falls. In this study, we examined the associations between falls and multimorbidity and multimorbidity patterns. Data collected between 2011 and 2018 were obtained from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). Multimorbidity was defined as the coexistence of &#880...