Teenage refugees in Uganda who engaged in "sexting"—the practice of sending and receiving sexually explicit digital images and messages—were more likely to report that they used condoms, two recent studies found.
Nov 3, 2022
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Demand for health care is soaring as the population ages, medical treatments become more widely available and more people live with chronic and complex illnesses.
Aug 12, 2022
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Research by international development organization Sightsavers, University of Ilorin, and the Kogi State Ministry of Health, in Nigeria has revealed links between vision impairment and poor mental health. The study, published ...
Apr 11, 2022
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Want to have a happy relationship? Make sure both partners feel they can decide on issues that are important to them. Objective power measured by income, for example, doesn't seem to play a big role, according to a new study ...
Jun 28, 2021
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Culture matters more than a leader's gender in how a nation survives a global pandemic, according to a study I conducted on gender and COVID-19 management, which was published in December in the journal PLOS ONE.
Mar 25, 2021
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The assumption that an elderly widower can hardly boil an egg simply doesn't stand according to a recent University of Copenhagen study. The study reports that male seniors do cook and only blossom in the kitchen once alone. ...
Dec 7, 2020
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Women who lack social ties have a greater likelihood of being obese, according to new UBC research published today in PLOS One. Men, on the other hand, were less likely to be obese if they lived alone and had a smaller social ...
Jul 30, 2020
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Cultural beliefs and norms are making the adoption of vasectomy in Tanzania challenging.
Apr 9, 2020
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Around the world, women and girls suffer a greater burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) compared to men. Now, through a series of focus groups and interviews, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases ...
Dec 12, 2019
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Three commonly argued justifications for the persistent discrimination and gender bias that prevent women from rising to leadership positions in the field of pediatric medicine have been debunked by a Drexel University College ...
Nov 11, 2019
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