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Text messages quickly track health care use during Ebola outbreak: NYU study confirms accuracy of digital polling, which could also deploy in other health emergencies

October 6, 2018 Ebola, Health Policy, Organic, Public Health, Public Health Education, Social Issues, Soil Types, STEM Education, Virology

Text messages aren’t just a way to chat with family and friends — they are a viable method for rapidly

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Insufficient sleep associated with risky behavior in teens: Mental health issues, substance abuse, accidents more likely for high school students sleeping less than six hours per night

October 3, 2018 Educational Policy, Insomnia, Insomnia Research, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Public Health, Sleep Disorder Research, Sleep Disorders, STEM Education, Teen Health

Adolescents require 8-10 hours of sleep at night for optimal health, according to sleep experts, yet more than 70 percent

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Regret is a gambler’s curse, neuroscientists say: After placing a bet, gamblers’ thought processes focus on regret about past bets

September 17, 2018 Brain Injury, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Intelligence, Neuroscience, Public Health, STEM Education, Surveillance, Transportation Issues

What goes through a gambler’s mind after she’s placed her bet? It’s not just the anticipation of a big payoff,

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Conditional release programs often work for criminally insane

September 7, 2018 Anger Management, Depression, Justice, Legal Issues, Mental Health, Popular Culture, Psychiatry, Public Health

After being found not guilty by reason of insanity, it’s not typically a crime — rather declining mental health or

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Gender identities disrupted — and reinforced: Older children and girls are more likely to tell alternative narratives that challenge the status quo

September 7, 2018 ADD and ADHD, Child Development, Child Psychology, Gender Difference, Poverty and Learning, Public Health, Racial Disparity, STEM Education

New Northwestern University research analyzing the ways children’s gender narratives reinforce or disrupt gender inequality found that older children —

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Patients want more information about their medicines, study finds

September 5, 2018 Alternative Medicine, Bioethics, Patient Education and Counseling, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology, Privacy Issues, Public Health, STEM Education

Many patients want more information on the medicines they’re prescribed and greater say in the brands they use, the first

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Three factors could explain physician burnout in the US: Doctors share their thoughts on a growing medical crisis

August 20, 2018 Caregiving, Disorders and Syndromes, Funding Policy, Health Policy, Mental Health, Patient Education and Counseling, Privacy Issues, Public Health, Today's Healthcare

In just three years, physician burnout increased from 45.5 percent to 54.4 percent, according to a paper authored by doctors

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Routine, coordinated treatment of opioid abuse can stem national epidemic

July 16, 2018 Alternative Medicine, Disaster Plan, Medical Topics, Personalized Medicine, Poverty and Learning, Public Health, STEM Education, Today's Healthcare

To help stem the nationwide opioid epidemic and related increases in HIV, hepatitis C and other infections, health care providers

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Three major failings in some apps used for the diagnosis of skin cancer

July 6, 2018 cancer, Diseases and Conditions, Education and Employment, Public Health, Scientific Conduct, skin cancer, Skin Care, STEM Education

In the scramble to bring successful apps for the diagnosis of skin cancer to market, there is a concern that