DARIEN, IL - A new study found that gamers will push off obtaining adequate sleep in order to continue video gaming.
Results show that on average, gamers delayed going to bed 36 percent of the nights they played video games.Average game playing was 4.6 nights per week. The average delay in bedtime on the nights spent gaming was 101 minutes.
The recent murders in a gay night club in Orlando are sure to worry kids, especially if they watch the non-stop television coverage. There are ways to broach the subject, if it looks like children are agitated by what is happening.
Clinicians submitting data to the Diabetes Collaborative Registry regularly adhere to 4 out of 7 diabetes quality metrics when treating patients with diabetes, according to the first presented results from the registry. Registry data will be presented and published in two abstracts at the American Diabetes Association's 76th Scientific Sessions, June 10-14 in New Orleans.
Nearly 15 percent of opioid-naïve patients hospitalized under Medicare are discharged with a new prescription for opioids, according to a study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Among those patients who received a prescription, 40 percent were still taking opioids 90 days after discharge. The rate of prescription varied almost twofold between hospitals, with some hospitals discharging as many as 20 percent of patients with a prescription for opioids.
Military members who visited a primary care clinic while suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and depression reported fewer symptoms and better mental health functioning a year after enrolling in a treatment program that included specially trained care managers and telephone therapy options, according to a new study.
The study focused on primary care as a way of combating the stigma many service members feel about going directly to a mental health specialist.
In the midst of an epidemic of prescription painkiller addiction and overdose deaths, a new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health survey suggests that more than half of patients prescribed opioids have leftover pills -- and many save them to use later.
Do ambulatory patients who present in office settings with hypertensive urgency - systolic blood pressure (BP) at least 180mm HG and diastolic BP at least 110 mm Hg - do better when they are referred to the hospital or when they have their BP managed in an outpatient setting?
Krishna K. Patel, M.D., of the Cleveland Clinic, and coauthors examined that question in a new study published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.
Larger hematoma size and location were risk factors associated with dementia after an intracerebral hemorrhage when a blood vessel in the brain bursts, according to an article published online by JAMA Neurology.
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) accounts for about 15 percent of all strokes and about 50 percent of stroke-related death and disability worldwide. Progressive cognitive decline is frequent after ICH but there is limited understanding of its risk factors.
Oscar-winning Actress Jennifer Lawrence made headlines last year after penning an essay about the gender wage gap in Hollywood. Actress Robin Wright, star of the hit TV show "House of Cards" recently spoke out about demanding to be paid the same as her co-star on the series, actor Kevin Spacey. Actor Chris Evans, star of the popular "Captain America" film franchise, even discussed Hollywood's gender wage gap during his most recent publicity tour.
One in four patients with COPD referred for exercise rehabilitation are frail, but nevertheless can respond favourably to rehabilitation and their frailty can be reversed, finds a new study led by King's College London and Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. The findings have wider implications for treating frailty, which affects one in ten over-65s, where adapting other rehabilitation programmes could potentially benefit more patients.
As predicted, the star of the 2016 Tony Awards was “Hamilton,” which took home 11 trophies.
Compared with the 2016 Academy Awards, the 2016 Tony Awards was far more reflective of our multiracial society. Out of 40 acting nominees in plays and musicals, 14 – 35 percent – were people of color. And that didn’t include several nonwhite nominees for many behind-the-scenes awards.
An ultrathin film that is both transparent and highly conductive to electric current has been produced by a cheap and simple method devised by an international team of nanomaterials researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Korea University.
The film -- actually a mat of tangled nanofiber, electroplated to form a "self-junctioned copper nano-chicken wire" -- is also bendable and stretchable, offering potential applications in roll-up touchscreen displays, wearable electronics, flexible solar cells and electronic skin.
As the UEFA European Championship kicks off in France, the memory of last November’s terrorist attacks on the Stade de France and other venues across Paris looms large. French authorities will be examining the previous attacks – including the January 2015 shootings at Charlie Hebdo – to secure the tournament against any terrorist threat.
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FARMINGTON, CT, June 11, 2016 - The combination of type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease can be deadly.
New research from a global study led by a physician from UConn Health has found that patients with Type 2 diabetes admitted into the hospital for congestive heart failure face a one in four chance of dying over the next 18 months.