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WEDNESDAY, April 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Extensive controls imposed early in China's coronavirus outbreak may have prevented hundreds of thousands of infections, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed the movements of people out of Wuhan (where the virus was first detected), the types and timing of controls across China, and COVID-19 cases reported each day in every city. The conclusion: Controls imposed during the China outbreak's first 50 days may have delayed spread of the virus to other cities by several days, preventing more than 700,000 infections across the country. The authors said the findings -- recently published in the journal Science -- could be helpful for countries still in early phases of the COVID-19 outbreak. "The number of confirmed cases in China by day...

WEDNESDAY, April 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Type 1 diabetes is a challenging, time-intensive disease that often strikes children, and new research suggests that strong family support helps improve the well-being of young adults with the condition. The study found that young adults (under 30) with type 1 diabetes were more likely to be "flourishing" if they had good family connections. Flourishing was defined in the study as having a general sense of well-being, including having a purpose in life, feeling self-acceptance, and having positive relationships with others. "Communication and connection with parents is super-important throughout human development, but type 1 diabetes can become a rupturing event for some families. The stress of the disease can be more than some families...

WEDNESDAY, April 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- You've been told over and over not to touch your face during the coronavirus pandemic, but that's easier said than done. Most people touch their face up to 23 times an hour and don't even realize they're doing it, a psychologist says. "Typically, we'll do something like shaking someone's hand and then failing to wash our hands properly, followed by touching our faces and then we're off to the races with an infection and symptoms that will show up in two to 14 days," said Jim Pomerantz, a professor of psychological sciences at Rice University in Houston. "It's much better to prevent an infection than to try to deal with it after the fact, and that's the purpose of our work here," he said in a university news release. Here are...

WEDNESDAY, April 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- One side effect of the coronavirus pandemic could be long-lasting: U.S. school closures may worsen the child obesity crisis, experts warn. Previous research has shown that kids tend to gain weight when they're out of school during the summer -- especially Hispanic and black youngsters and children who are already overweight. "There could be long-term consequences for weight gained while children are out of school during the COVID-19 pandemic," said Andrew Rundle, who studies ways to prevent childhood obesity. He's an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City. "Research shows that weight gained over the summer months is maintained during the school year and accrues summer to...