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New blood test may help to diagnose depression
A new blood test designed at Massachusetts General Hospital appears to accurately indicate whether a person is suffering from depression, according to a paper published in Molecular Psychiatry.
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Column: Not forgetting about Alzheimer’s
Imagine it is the year 2030. Your parents are two of the 7.7 million Americans who have Alzheimer’s disease. You have two kids to take care of and a demanding job. You want to take care of your parents, but cannot physically be there all the time to make sure they are okay.
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Small businesses yield better health, study finds
Small businesses may be what communities need in order to have healthier populations, according to a study done by two Baylor U. professors and a Louisiana State U. professor. Dr. Carson Mencken and Dr. Charles Tolbert, Baylor professors of sociology, along with Dr.
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Facebook affects happiness, study says
For some students, Facebook provides a much-needed study break during midterm week, but a recent study suggests that Facebook can actually make people feel worse about their own lives. The study, conducted at Utah Valley U.
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Study shows students drink more while studying abroad
In college, students have almost unlimited possibilities and freedoms as they break away from adolescence and become adults while gaining their degree, but those under the age of 21 still cannot legally drink alcohol in the United States.
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Polling location may influence how you vote
Cathedrals or government buildings could influence voting, a recent Baylor study showed. Dr. Wade Rowatt, co-author of the study and associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor, said this is called “priming.
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Heart disease attacks both young and old
More and more Americans are dying of heart disease at younger ages, and conditions are likely to be worse in Oklahoma, according to a new study by the U. Oklahoma College of Public Health.
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Researchers find DNA connection to onset of menopause
Researchers at Boston U.’s School of Public Health and School of Medicine found 13 new genetic areas associated with immune function and DNA repair affecting aging and the beginning of menopause, according to a press release.
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Professor studies rare ‘face blindness’
Experts in psychology have long known that prosopagnosia — a condition also known as face blindness — is caused by brain damage, but it was unknown until recently that roughly 2 percent of the population is born with the facial recognition disorder, according to Dartmouth College ...