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• Mental disorders in mid-life, older adulthood, more prevalent than previously reported
• Information as important as medication in reducing migraine pain
• Avoiding demographic cliques builds stronger teams
• Young children engage in physical activity in short spurts; preschoolers take 11 hours to attain daily exercise levels
• Infants show ability to tell friends from foes
• Heart attacks hit poor hardest
• Study shows 'readability' scores largely inaccurate
• Lower fat content for adolescents' diets
• Seniors moving to homecare based services face more hospital risk
• Health, wealth connected?
• BPA increases risk of cancer in human prostate tissue, study shows
• By the numbers: Simple 10 step approach to reducing harms of alcohol
• Ear tubes vs. watchful waiting: Tubes do not improve long-term development
• Suburban sprawl cancels carbon footprint savings of dense urban cores
• How tastes are linked with facial expressions
• School lunches helping children from getting too-salty diets
• Study shows keys to successful long-term weight loss maintenance
• Smoothing the way to healthy glow?

Mental disorders in mid-life, older adulthood, more prevalent than previously reported Posted: 08 Jan 2014 02:09 PM PST Common methods of assessing mental or physical disorders may consistently underestimate the prevalence of mental disorders among middle-aged and older adults, a new study has found. The analysis reveals substantial discrepancies among mid-life and late-life adults in reporting past mental health disorders, including depression, compared with physical disorders such as arthritis and hypertension.

Information as important as medication in reducing migraine pain Posted: 08 Jan 2014 12:44 PM PST The information that doctors provide when prescribing drug therapies has long been thought to play a role in the way that patients respond to drug therapies. Now an innovative study of migraine headache confirms that a patient's expectations influence the effects of both medication and placebo pills.

Avoiding demographic cliques builds stronger teams Posted: 08 Jan 2014 12:42 PM PST Cliques make team player less altruistic. That is the finding from a study of teams in business and not-for-profit organizations. The study has implications for management of teams when measures of diversity including gender, ethnic origin and other demographic factors are considered.

Young children engage in physical activity in short spurts; preschoolers take 11 hours to attain daily exercise levels Posted: 08 Jan 2014 10:31 AM PST Preschool-aged children require the majority of their waking day, approximately 11 hours, to achieve their recommended daily physical activity, a study has found.

Infants show ability to tell friends from foes Posted: 08 Jan 2014 10:31 AM PST Even before babies have language skills or much information about social structures, they can infer whether other people are likely to be friends by observing their likes and dislikes, a new study on infant cognition has found.

Heart attacks hit poor hardest Posted: 08 Jan 2014 09:37 AM PST "Frailty syndrome" is emerging in the field of public health as a powerful predictor of healthcare use and death. Now researchers have found that poor people are more than twice as likely as the wealthy to become frail after a heart attack. The findings could help doctors and policymakers improve post-heart-attack care for the poor.

Study shows 'readability' scores largely inaccurate Posted: 08 Jan 2014 07:24 AM PST Teachers, parents and textbook companies use technical "readability" formulas to determine how difficult reading materials are and to set reading levels by age group. But new research shows that the readability formulas are usually inaccurate and offer little insight into which age groups will be able to read and understand a text.

Lower fat content for adolescents' diets Posted: 08 Jan 2014 07:24 AM PST The prevalence of excess weight and obesity among adolescents and, as a result, the concomitant problems, has increased considerably in recent years. A study has confirmed that, irrespective of the total calories consumed and the physical activity done, an excessive proportion of fat in the diet leads to a greater accumulation of fat in the abdomen of adolescents.

Seniors moving to homecare based services face more hospital risk Posted: 08 Jan 2014 07:24 AM PST Community and home-based care services are popular and cost Medicaid less money than nursing home care, but a new study finds that seniors who left the nursing home for such services were 40 percent more likely to become hospitalized for a potentially preventable reason than those who stayed in the nursing home.

Health, wealth connected? Posted: 07 Jan 2014 02:20 PM PST We ring in the new year with hopes of being healthy, wealthy, and wise. A new study suggests that from a public health standpoint, health and wealth may be connected. Researchers examined Google search patterns during the recent recession, and discovered that people searched for keywords related to health symptoms much more frequently than they would have if the recession hadn't taken place.

BPA increases risk of cancer in human prostate tissue, study shows Posted: 07 Jan 2014 10:57 AM PST Fetal exposure to a commonly used plasticizer found in products such as water bottles, soup can liners and paper receipts, can increase the risk for prostate cancer later in life, according to a study.

By the numbers: Simple 10 step approach to reducing harms of alcohol Posted: 07 Jan 2014 07:26 AM PST Much the same way individuals are encouraged to know their blood pressure and cholesterol numbers to maintain a healthy lifestyle, a new article urges the European public to know and monitor their alcohol intake number using a simple 10 point plan.

Ear tubes vs. watchful waiting: Tubes do not improve long-term development Posted: 06 Jan 2014 04:00 PM PST Study suggests tubes, adenoidectomy reduce fluid in the middle ear and improve hearing in the short term, but tubes did not improve speech or language for children with middle ear fluid.

Suburban sprawl cancels carbon footprint savings of dense urban cores Posted: 06 Jan 2014 10:32 AM PST According to a new study, population-dense cities contribute less greenhouse gas emissions per person than other areas of the country, but these cities' extensive suburbs essentially wipe out the climate benefits. Dominated by emissions from cars, trucks and other forms of transportation, suburbs account for about 50 percent of all household emissions -- largely carbon dioxide -- in the United States.

How tastes are linked with facial expressions Posted: 06 Jan 2014 10:29 AM PST Researchers links between the palatability of various tastes and circulation in different parts of the face.

School lunches helping children from getting too-salty diets Posted: 06 Jan 2014 10:28 AM PST New findings show that many Americans are at risk for high blood pressure because of too much sodium in our diets — and the risk is especially high for children.

Study shows keys to successful long-term weight loss maintenance Posted: 06 Jan 2014 08:53 AM PST Researchers have published one of the first studies of its kind to follow weight loss maintenance for individuals over a 10-year period. The results show that long-term weight loss maintenance is possible if individuals adhere to key health behaviors.

Smoothing the way to healthy glow? Posted: 06 Jan 2014 06:45 AM PST A new research study is examining whether a healthy smoothie a day makes people appear to be more healthy -- and whether the results will encourage people to eat and drink more healthily.

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