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Use of mobile dating apps linked with depression, social anxiety: Study
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Rochelle [US], November 7 (ANI): Greater use of mobile dating applications among women is associated with depression symptoms, social anxiety, suggested the findings of a study.
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Abnormal blood pressure levels while sleeping increase risk of heart disea
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 7 (ANI): The findings of a new study suggests that people who experience high blood pressure while sleeping are more likely to experience future cardiovascular disease especially heart failure, even when their daytime blood pressure is within normal ranges.
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Women more frequently diagnosed of depression, anxiety: Study
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 7 (ANI): The findings of a recent study suggest that women are more frequently diagnosed with depression and anxiety and the taking of prescribed psychotropic drugs is also significantly higher among them.
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Grocery store workers at heightened risk of COVID-19 infection, finds stud
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 1 (ANI): Grocery store employees, especially those in customer-facing roles are five times as likely to test positive for COVID-19 as compared to their colleagues in other positions, suggests the first study of its kind.
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Study reveals positive outlook predicts less memory decline
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 1 (ANI): People who feel enthusiastic and cheerful -- what psychologists call "positive affect" -- are less likely to experience memory decline as they age. This result adds to a growing body of research on positive affect's role in healthy ageing.
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Long term health benefits noticed in students having positive student-teac
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 1 (ANI): A good relationship, a supportive equation of teenagers with their teachers may help them enjoy better health in the latter half of their lives as adults, suggest the findings of a novel study.
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Vitamin B3 protects skin cells from the effects of UV exposure, new resear
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Washington [US], November 1 (ANI): Increasing the consumption of vitamin B3 will protect skin from some of the effects of ultraviolet (UV) exposure, potentially reducing the incidence of non-melanoma skin cancers, recent research shows.
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New research reveals risky sexual behaviour, STIs are rising despite COVID
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 1 (ANI): New research has found that despite the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) lockdown restrictions, diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including gonorrhoea, secondary syphilis and mycoplasma genitalium (MG), has increased.
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Coronavirus mutation may have made it more contagious, finds study
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Washington [US], October 31 (ANI): A study involving more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients in Houston finds that the virus that causes the disease is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious.
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Children with asymptomatic brain bleeds as newborns show normal brain deve
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Washington [US], October 31 (ANI): UNC researchers published unexpected and surprising results from a study based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of newborn brains. Twenty-six percent of the newborns in the study were found to have asymptomatic subdural haemorrhages or bleeding in and ar
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Washing hands and Halloween candy can mitigate COVID-19 contamination risk
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Washington [US], October 31 (ANI): New research shows that COVID-19 exposure risk from contaminated candy could be successfully mitigated both by washing hands and washing candy using a simple at-home method.
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Study shows COVID-19 risk to firefighters, emergency medical workers in Ne
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 30 (ANI): Firefighters and emergency medical workers in New York City were 15 times more likely to be infected during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the general public, according to a study published in ERJ Open Research.
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