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Caregivers of people with dementia lose between 2.5 to 3.5 hours of sleep weekly due to difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep — a negative for them and potentially for those who receive their care, according to a Baylor University study published in JAMA Network Open.

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Para pessoas que têm diabetes, tomar as medicações e monitorar o açúcar no sangue faz parte do ritmo de seu cotidiano. Entretanto, de acordo com a nova pesquisa da Mayo Clinic, mais de 2,3 milhões dos pacientes adultos nos Estados Unidos são provavelmente tratados de forma intensa demais. Isso causou milhares de visitas potencialmente evitáveis aos departamentos de emergência e hospitalizações por hipoglicemia (baixa de açúcar no sangue).

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A 100-year flood is supposed to be just that: a flood that occurs once every 100 years, or a flood that has a one-percent chance of happening every year.

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If you're a middle-aged or older adult saving for retirement, it's never too late to think about adding physical activity to your investment portfolio, according to an article in the September issue of ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal®

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A new study indicates that some exoplanets may have better conditions for life to thrive than Earth itself has.

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Imagine getting an entire health workup just by having your picture taken—no invasive poking or prodding, not even a pinprick blood test. That’s a goal ecologists have for monitoring the health of plants. Their cameras would be high-resolution sensors mounted on drones or satellites, capable of capturing much more than what’s visible to the naked eye.

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Penn State researchers are using artificial intelligence to pinpoint those swift-changing weather areas to help meteorologists produce more accurate weather forecasts without wasting valuable computational power.

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A global study comparing 2,062 birds finds that, in highly variable environments, birds tend to have either larger or smaller brains relative to their body size. Birds with smaller brains tend to use ecological strategies that are not available to big-brained counterparts. Instead of relying on grey matter to survive, these birds tend to have large bodies, eat readily available food and make lots of babies.