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Study shows adherence to Mediterranean diet associated with successful aging

A recent study published in the journal Experimental Gerontology examined the relationship between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and age-related health outcomes in older adults in Sicily, Italy.

21 Mar 2023

Heavy workloads may discourage employees from taking breaks at work

Heavy workloads make employees feel a greater need for a break, but new research finds they may actually discourage employees from taking breaks at work despite causing high levels of stress, fatigue, and poor performance.

20 Mar 2023

How does sleep loss affect children's health?

The understanding of the impact of disturbed sleep on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among healthy children is quite limited. To address this gap, a new JAMA Network Open study aimed to research the effect of sleep deprivation on HRQOL in healthy children without major sleep issues.

19 Mar 2023

Gut microbiomes and mental health: how do they interact?

A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine reviewed recent literature on the link between gut microbiota, the brain, and neurological disorders.

19 Mar 2023

Inadequate sleep associated with lower vaccine-induced humoral immunity

Researchers assess the association between the duration of sleep and humoral responses to vaccination.

19 Mar 2023

What are the associations of COVID-19 policy related economic and schooling disruptions with mental health and sleep in US children?

Researchers investigated whether economic and schooling disruptions associated with COVID-19 mitigation policies and unemployment rates were independently associated with perceived stress, sorrow, and positive stress effect, sleep, and COVID-19-associated worry.

17 Mar 2023

The US remains a grim leader in preterm births. Why? And can we fix it?

Tamara Etienne's second pregnancy was freighted with risk and worry from its earliest days — exacerbated by a first pregnancy that had ended in miscarriage.

16 Mar 2023

Short sleep duration at night associated with increased risk of peripheral artery disease

Sleeping less than five hours a night is associated with a 74% raised likelihood of developing peripheral artery disease (PAD) compared with seven to eight hours.

16 Mar 2023

Simple interventions to reduce consumption of junk food

In the current study, an international team of researchers conducted a feasibility randomized controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of an intervention associated with self-control to reduce consumption of indulgences over eight weeks.

15 Mar 2023

Delivering culturally responsive sleep health services to Indigenous adolescents

The University of Queensland and Beyond Blue have partnered to deliver culturally responsive sleep health services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents in Queensland.

15 Mar 2023

People with chronic low back pain may benefit from equine-facilitated therapy

Patients with chronic low back pain may benefit from equine-facilitated therapy (EFT), a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows.

15 Mar 2023

FDA looks into dental device after KHN-CBS news investigation of patient harm

In the wake of a joint investigation by KHN and CBS News into a dental appliance that multiple lawsuits allege caused grievous harm to patients, the FDA has begun looking into the product, the Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance, or AGGA, according to a former agency official.

15 Mar 2023

Lifestyle coaching improves health perceptions, behaviors, and weight during COVID-19

Researchers examine the perceptive, behavioral, and anthropometric changes in Coaching on Lifestyle (CooL) participants.

14 Mar 2023

Researchers investigate potential links between sleep disturbances and stroke

The dynamics between stroke and sleep – measured in both quantity and quality -; are complex. Research has broadly shown that either sleep deprivation or sleeping for longer than 9 hours a day can increase the risk of having a stroke.

14 Mar 2023

New report focuses on promoting safer sleep for babies

Change is needed to the way safer sleep information is communicated, if risks to babies from unsafe sleeping practices are to be reduced, according to a new report from Oxford, UCL, Bristol and Newcastle Universities.

14 Mar 2023

Insufficient sleep results in decreased antibody response to vaccination

In reviewing data from previous studies, a team lead by researchers at the University of Chicago and the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) found that individuals who had fewer than six hours of sleep per night in the days surrounding vaccination had a blunted antibody response.

14 Mar 2023

Revamping lifestyle can bolster brain health and stave off neurocognitive decline

In a recent article published in the journal Cureus, researchers at Loma Linda University Medical Center and the University of California Irvine reviewed the impact of applying the six pillars of lifestyle medicine — stress management, plant-based nutrition, avoidance of risky substances, physical activity, social connections, and restorative sleep — on neurocognitive decline and dementia.

14 Mar 2023