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Stats: Top 10 fittest cities analyzed, ranked by ACSM
The American College of Sports Medicine and the Anthem Foundation have just released the 2019 American Fitness Index, which annually ranks 100 cities across the US.
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Tech Talk: Study pilots motion-tracking wearable for Parkinson's
A recently launched UK project entitled "Developing Home-based Parkinson's Care" and led by the University of Plymouth and University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHPNT), enables Parkinson's disease patients to use a wrist-worn device known as a Personal Kinetigraph (PKG) as part of an initiative to help them and a specialist team monitor the condition at home.
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Behavioral therapy bests drugs for urinary incontinence
Behavioral therapy, alone or in combination with other interventions, is generally more effective than drug therapies alone for women with either stress or urgency urinary incontinence (UI), according to a meta-analysis of recent studies.
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Stats: One in three older adults lacks regular companionship
One in four older adults say they feel isolated from other people at least some of the time, and one in three say they lack regular companionship, according to the latest Healthy Aging poll.
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Low-quality health stories the norm on social media
Given the importance of health and medical news in everyone's lives, a relatively new organization called Health Feedback, made up of scientists who have published in top-tier peer-reviewed journals, collaborated with the Credibility Coalition, recently created by the World Wide Web Consortium, to assess the scientific quality of the 100 most-shared health articles on social media in 2018.
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Tech Talk: US NIH welcomes Fitbit BYOD
On January 16, the US National Institutes of Health's "All of Us" research program launched the Fitbit Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) project.
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