Illness

Illness is a state of poor health. Illness is sometimes considered another word for disease. Others maintain that fine distinctions exist. Some have described illness as the subjective perception by a patient of an objectively defined disease.

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Effects of exercise on cognitive functioning in adults with serious mental illness: a meta analytic review finds that exercise shows large effects on reasoning and problem solving; small effects on executive functioning.

Study offers first glimpse of how many suffer from previously unknown illness

Symptoms of illness help pathogens spread amongst songbirds

Get Moving To Lower Your COVID Risk: Exercise Shown To Reduce Severity of Illness

New research reveals risk factors for childhood abuse, both at the relationship and caretaker level. These include, among others: parenting stress, low empathy, low self-esteem, impulsiveness, loneliness, mental illness, limited knowledge of child development, and low family cohesion.

Researchers have identified the origins of serious illness in children

Viewing chronic pain as its own illness is providing better treatments

Columbia Mass Murder Database Reveals Mass School Shootings Are Not Caused by Mental Illness

New RSV vaccine given in pregnancy protects newborns from illness, Pfizer says

Mass school shootings are not caused by mental illness, study finds

Children commonly face new, worsening health problems months after critical illness from sepsis

A Supersmeller Can Detect the Scent of Parkinson's, Leading to an Experimental Test for the Illness

Smoking increases the risk of illness and viral infection, including type of coronavirus

How our eyes can change colour throughout our lives. Through apparently spontaneous change or through mishap or illness, our eyes can change colour in surprising ways.

Twice-daily nasal irrigation reduces COVID-related illness, death, study finds

A common childhood illness could be behind 'tomato flu' outbreak

Mysterious Canine Parvovirus-like Illness Has Left Over 30 Dogs Dead In Michigan

How recovery progresses following inflammation triggered by injury or illness

Inflammation Triggered by Injury or Illness: When Recovery Goes Awry

Covid Increases Risk Of Mental Illness And Brain Disease Up To Two Years After Infection, Study Suggests