Public Health in the News (12/2/18 – 12/15/18)

By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Editor-in-Chief

Global

• Research on European children shows that physical activity declines begin as early as 6 years of age.

National

• Study conducted in Seattle shows that delaying school start times by 55 minutes helped teenagers get more sleep.

Northwestern

• Northwestern Medicine study finds that men with inflammatory bowel disease are at an increased risk of prostate cancer.
• The world’s smallest wearable device, developed at Northwestern, can measure exposure to light of various wavelengths, such as UV.