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TL;DR: Among 121 people with painful pancreatic cancer, 44% had a heightened sensitivity to pain on standardized testing, much like people with long-term pancreatitis. But in the cancer group, that sensitivity was not consistently linked to worse pain, mood or…
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TL;DR: A 2026 cross-sectional study in PLOS One found that people with post COVID-19 condition reported worse quality of life, fatigue, sleep, psychological wellbeing, and subjective cognition than COVID-19 survivors without the condition, while many objective…
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TL;DR: A 2026 cross-sectional study in BMC Geriatrics found that 43.9% of 945 older adults in Nepal’s Sudurpaschim Province screened positive for geriatric depression, and depression was linked to lower quality-of-life scores across every WHOQoL-8 domain. Key…
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TL;DR: A 2026 European Journal of Pediatrics study found that children with phenylketonuria, or PKU, had higher depression scores and lower quality of life than controls, with the worse pattern in children diagnosed later. Key Findings Children studied: The st…
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