Around 50-70 million adults in the United States have some form of sleep disorder and, as a result, are at increased risk of health problems. Study co-author Dr. Dirk M. Hermann, of University Hospital Essen, Germany, and colleagues note that previous research has suggested a link between sleep disorders and stroke risk and recovery. In […]
Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the United States. In 2014, there were around 15.7 million adults aged 18 or older in the U.S. who had experienced at least one major depressive episode in the last year, which represented 6.7 percent of all American adults. According to the Anxiety and Depression […]
People with mental health problems have a higher risk of suicide than the general population. Some hospitals that offer psychiatric care lock their wards to try to reduce this risk, while others leave rooms open. Researchers in Germany have compared outcomes for locked and unlocked accommodation in a 15-year study of around 145,000 patients. The […]
Dr. Mingyang Song – from the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston – and colleagues publish their work in JAMA Internal Medicine. They note that protein sources “inevitably influence other components of diet, including macronutrients, micronutrients, and phytochemicals, that can in turn influence health outcomes.” As such, they say accounting for food […]