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A new ‘global atlas’ study characterizes insomnia as a novel risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes. In total, the researchers identified 19 risk factors and dismissed 21 suggestive risk factors based on insufficient scientific evidence.Share on PinterestNew research indicates insomnia is a possible risk factor for type 2 diabetes.Globally, around 463 million adults lived…

A new study has recently identified the top 10 social and behavioral traits associated with mortality.Although there has been plenty of research linking mortality to various habits and lifestyle factors, scientists at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada — in collaboration with colleagues from other institutions — have identified the 10 factors…

Hospitals might not know how many COVID-19 patients they’ll be treating as the wave of the pandemic peaks in the next month or so in Minnesota, but they’re starting to get a better idea of who will end up in their beds. While there remains a random or yet-to-be understood aspect to COVID-19 — and…

The microbe that causes COVID-19 is called the “novel” coronavirus (2019-nCoV), to distinguish it from respiratory diseases caused by other viruses in the same family. It is still a new pathogen with many unique and poorly understood characteristics, but in the four months since the first cases were reported in Wuhan, China, clinicians on the…