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Study examines how video games impacts kids' behaviour
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], May 31 (ANI): While video games are widely loved by children around the world, spending more time playing a violent game might have an adverse impact on kids. A new study examined how children who played violent video games, reacted when they found a real gun.
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Childhood trauma impacts brain development, accelerates puberty
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 31 (ANI): While childhood is associated with making good memories, but for some, it is not the same. A new study reveals that children who grow up in poverty and face adversities are more likely to suffer impacts on brain development and behaviour.
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Fitness level impacts cancer risk and outcomes
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 6 (ANI): In a recent study, researchers have revealed that fit adults have the lowest risk of developing lung and colorectal cancer. Also, individuals who developed the cancers, those who had high fitness levels before their cancer diagnosis, were less likely to d
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Disrupting body clock can be detrimental to health
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Apr 28 (ANI): A recent study suggests that eating time is important knowledge for the human body which impacts the health of people. Furthermore, researchers identified insulin as a primary signal that helps communicate the timing of meals to the cellular clocks locat
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Global warming impacts marine creatures the most, reveals study
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] Apr 25 (ANI): A recent study has discovered that global warming has made more than twice ocean dwellers disappear in comparison to land dwellers from their habitats.
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Quitting smoking during pregnancy lowers risk of preterm births
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] Apr, 20 (ANI): A recent study claims that smoking during pregnancy can have negative health impacts. According to researchers smoking during pregnancy can result in low birth weight, delayed intrauterine development, preterm birth, infant mortality, and long-term dev
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Climate change impacts fertility in insects, study reveals
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 16 (ANI): A study on insects has found that males when subjected to heat stress become infertile before females do. The study also explained how the temperature at which an animal is developed impacts its reproductive behaviour and physiology.
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Digital screen time has minimal impact on adolescent's mental well being:
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 5 (ANI): The much-hyped notion that watching TV or being in front of mobile screens before bedtime impacts the well being has shown little evidence in a recent study published in the journal 'Psychological Science'.
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BESAFE’s 3rd Annual Conference on “Measurable Impacts of Behavioural Based
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 30 (ANI): BESAFE’S Third Annual Conference on “Measurable Impacts of Behavioural Based Safety Implementation in Indian Industry” was held at the PHD Chamber of Commerce, New Delhi in collaboration with the Indo American Chamber of Commerce and VisionOSH, New Delhi.
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US ready to provide $20 million aid to Venezuela
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 25 (ANI): The United States is ready to provide more than USD 20 million in initial humanitarian assistance to Venezuela for the South American country to cope with the severe food, medicine shortages and “other dire impacts of their country’s political and economi
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WHO lists 10 threats to global health in 2019
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 21 (ANI): Taking to its website, the World Health Organization (WHO) has written that the world is facing multiple health challenges. These include outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, growing rates of obesit
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Malware attack impacts publishing of US newspapers
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [United States], December 31 (ANI): Things did not fare well for US newspapers over the last weekend of the year as a suspected malware attack affected their publication.
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