Stepping into big data: who in the world walks the most each day?

With some journalistic flair, the BBC headline titled:  'D o you live in the world's least active country? ' ' caught my eye...

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"Medical history was associated with increased risk of CFS/ME"

The paper by Berit Feiring and colleagues [1] (open-access) is the source blogging material today covering an area that I was previously un...

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Trends in ADHD medication use in the US and Europe: is this a bad thing?

I don't want to dwell too much on the findings reported by Christian Bachmann and colleagues [1] observing that in five Western countri...

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"Asthma was associated with increased risk for schizophrenia"

'Big data' Taiwan is once again the topic of a post on this blog as the results published by Wei-Chen Wang and colleagues [1] ( ope...

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Coeliac disease, autism and more

" Compared with the general population, children with celiac disease had a 1.4-fold greater risk of future psychiatric disorders. Child...

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No wait... C-sections are NOT linked to autism

A quote to begin: " There was no association between planned CS  [ Caesarean section ]  and ASD  [autism spectrum disorder] ... or ADHD...

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Pregnancy folic acid and offspring autism risk: just one minute...

So: " We did not find any evidence to corroborate previous reports of a reduced risk for autism spectrum disorders in offspring of wome...

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