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Insights: State of women's wellness-6182

Insights: State of women's wellness

Everyday Health, a consumer website with 70 million registered users and 40 million visitors monthly, has produced a "Special Report on Women's Wellness 2017."

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Market segments

Quality contact with grandparents curbs ageism-6180

Quality contact with grandparents curbs ageism

A recent study by researchers at the University of Liege in Belgium found that young people who say they have very good contact with their grandparents have the lowest levels of ageist stereotypes.

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Social wellness

Oral health linked to risk of frailty-6178

Oral health linked to risk of frailty

A study of 1,622 British men ages 71 to 92 found that having fewer than 21 teeth, complete tooth loss, fair-to-poor self-rated oral health, dry mouth, difficulty eating and multiple oral health problems were associated with a greater likelihood of being frail.

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Physical wellness

Facebook job ads exclude older workers-6174

Facebook job ads exclude older workers

An investigation by ProPublica, an independent nonprofit newsroom, and the New York Times has exposed systematic ageism by "dozens" of companies who use Facebook to exclude older workers from job ads.

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Attitudes & perceptions

Stats: 78.6 - US life expectancy drops again-6173

Stats: 78.6 - US life expectancy drops again

Life expectancy in the US dropped for the second year in a row, according to the latest data (2016) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Trends

One type of brain training may reduce dementia risk-6168

One type of brain training may reduce dementia risk

Cognitive training to improve the brain's processing speed has been shown to provide benefits up to 10 years later, according to Indiana University School of Medicine researchers.

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Cognitive health

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