Psychology · August 18, 2026 · 7 min read

Parents have spent a decade limiting their children’s screen time to protect their brains. A new 8-year study found children with more screen time had better cognitive processing as teenagers.

Few parenting positions have achieved the status of screen time limits. The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued guidelines recommending no more than one hour per day for children aged…

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Psychology

Male domestic violence survivors are less likely to seek help than female survivors. A study of 1,200 men finally asked why, and the answer reframes how the problem should be addressed

For decades, research on why male victims of intimate partner violence do not seek help has pointed in one direction. Men fear…

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Medical Research & Innovations

Every person who had COVID or got vaccinated carries an immune memory of the virus. A new vaccine platform has found a way to use that memory to make tumors visible to the immune system.

Somewhere inside your body right now, a population of T cells is waiting. They were trained during your COVID infection or vaccination…

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Public health has treated loneliness and social isolation as the same problem for decades. A study of 30,000 people found they are not, and the one everyone talks about barely affects cognitive decline.

Loneliness has become one of the defining public health concerns of the past decade. The US Surgeon General declared it an epidemic…

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New research finds that Crohn’s and colitis patients start developing depression and anxiety years before they are diagnosed. The gut-brain connection begins earlier than anyone realized

The mental health burden of inflammatory bowel disease has been documented for decades. People living with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis experience depression and anxiety at rates roughly one and…