Your education, your job, your income, the neighborhood you live in: Together these factors are considered to represent socioeconomic status
Month: May 2022
Childhood circumstances and personality traits are associated with loneliness in older age
Life circumstances during childhood—including having fewer friends and siblings, low-quality relationships with parents, bad health and growing up in a
Choline makes a key nutrient available for baby development
The nutrient choline—shown to have long-term benefits for children whose mothers consume it during pregnancy—also helps the body more efficiently
Women who hugged their partner subsequently had lower stress-induced cortisol response
Women instructed to embrace their romantic partner prior to undergoing a stressful experience had a lower biological stress response—as indicated
COVID booster needed for broad protection against omicron variants
A COVID-19 booster shot will provide strong and broad antibody protection against the range of omicron sublineage variants of the
Vaccination after SARS-CoV-2 infection linked to a decrease in long COVID symptoms
Vaccination after infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is associated with a decrease in the likelihood of long
Antibiotics given shortly before cesarean birth not linked to asthma and eczema in young children
Antibiotics given to women before a cesarean birth have no effect on the risk of early childhood conditions, such as
Study associates higher mortality with eating lots of ultra-processed foods, red meat
Loma Linda University Health researchers say high consumption of ultra-processed foods and, separately, high consumption of red meat may be
How cranberries could improve memory and ward off dementia
Adding cranberries to your diet could help improve memory and brain function, and lower ‘bad’ cholesterol—according to new research from
World remains unprepared to face new pandemics: panel
Global reform efforts to better ward off new pandemic threats have been slow and fragmented, leaving the world as unprepared