A new study suggests that dogs may have first successfully migrated to the Americas only about 10,000 years ago, thousands of years after the first human migrants crossed a land bridge from Siberia to North America.
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The annual U.S. cost of psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin condition, was estimated to be between $112 billion and $135 billion in 2013, according to a review article published online by JAMA Dermatology.
Psoriasis affects about 3.2 percent of the U.S. population and understanding the economic burden of the disease is important for research, advocacy and educational efforts.
According to surveys, an employer is more likely to hire someone who has lost weight through exercise and dieting than through surgery. This is just one of the stigmas faced by obese people who undergo weight-reducing bariatric surgery, according to Robert Carels of East Carolina University and colleagues in Obesity Surgery.
Research!America, a health care lobbying organization, is urging the new Congress to take action on five priorities in the first 100 days of the legislative session.
Investigators have completed a comprehensive analysis of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding of research to prevent non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) and determined that prevention research in the United States is severely underfunded. Specifically, the study found the NIH spends just 7 to 9 percent of its research budget on behavioral interventions to prevent NCDs, despite the fact that 70 percent of deaths in the U.S. are due to NCDs, and that treating people with NCDs accounts for approximately 84 percent of U.S. healthcare expenditures.
In the US and many Western countries, people are urged to manage feelings of anger or suffer its ill effects -- but new research with participants from the US and Japan suggests that anger may actually be linked with better, not worse, health in certain cultures.
Alcohol sales data, which act as a proxy for alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related deaths for regions in Great Britain have been analyzed and the results in BMC Public Health show that of eleven regions analyzed, the South West, Central Scotland, North East, North West and Yorkshire had higher levels of alcohol sales per adult than the Great Britain average. There were lower sales in London, Central England and the East of England.
Break up the fights early. Teenage fight via OllyShutterstock
The continuing shortage of primary care physicians is expected to only worsen, as the expansion of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act increases the demand for primary care services. Recommendations for meeting the crisis have included both increasing the supply of primary care physicians and expanding the roles of primary care nurse practitioners.
Beginning in 2005, something strange began to happen in the futures grain market: The cash price and futures price, which normally converge by the time a grain contract matures, weren't coming together. Instead, they were moving farther apart - and not by just a little. By September 2008, the wheat futures price was an unprecedented $2 higher per bushel than the spot price in Toledo at delivery.
The picture isn't pretty for guys who post a lot of "selfies" on social media sites like Facebook and Instagram. A new analysis of survey results concluded that men who posted more online photos of themselves than others scored higher on measures of narcissism and psychopathy - and men who were more likely to edit selfies before posting also scored higher in narcissism and self-objectification.
A new paper by the Rand Corporation think tank finds that too many health plan choices for people who buy subsidized coverage through marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act results in them paying more than in plans where there are fewer choices.
Hippies were famous for substance abuse and that has not changed as they got older. Close to three million Americans aged 55 and older suffer from alcohol abuse and the number is expected to double by 2020. Alcohol abuse prevalence is not new but less well-known is that the rate of illicit drug abuse in older people more than doubled between 2002 and 2013, as people from the sixties became people in their fifties
A new study that followed nearly 70,000 women for two decades concluded that three-quarters of heart attacks in young women could be prevented if women closely followed six healthy lifestyle practices.