Medical
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Queen Elizabeth Tests Positive for COVID-19
'Her Majesty is experiencing mild cold-like symptoms but expects to continue light duties at Windsor over the coming week,' Buckingham Palace said...
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Pediatrics Group Stresses Benefits of Vitamin K Shots for Infants
The American Academy of Pediatrics said bleeding due to vitamin K deficiency appears to be on the rise as some families decline a standard...
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Use of High-Dose Iron in Dialysis in US Tracks PIVOTAL Trial
The 2019 landmark PIVOTAL trial that established the safety and efficacy of higher-dose iron in patients on hemodialysis had little discernable...
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Twitter Storm Over 'Reprehensible Behavior' at Conference Podium
A Twitter post calling out an exchange between a presenter and an attendee asking questions at the recent GUCS conference created a bit of a buzz....
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Geography Hampers Access to Lung Cancer Screening
Many individuals who are eligible for lung cancer screening have limited or no access to a facility that conducts such screening, not only in rural...
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Triaging Neurocognitive Screening After SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Objective neurocognitive measures can provide vital data to inform neurologic workup and should be incorporated as endpoints in clinical trials....
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PARP Inhibitors: Improving Outcomes in Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Two new trials exploring this approach ― olaparib in the PROpel trial and niraparib in the MAGNITUDE trial –― had slightly different results....
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Docs on the Move: Jernejcic to Lead Trailblazing Hospital in China
A roundup of important career moves and accomplishments among physicians. Medscape Medical News
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Federal Sex Ed Programs Linked to Decrease in Teen Pregnancy
“Our analysis provides evidence that funding for more comprehensive sex education led to an overall reduction in the teen birth rate at the county...
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Omicron variant no more severe than original strain: WHO
The BA.2 variant of the Omicron coronavirus strain is not more severe than the original, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
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Patience could increase longevity
Patient people are at lower risk of dying before the age of 65 and suffer, on average, from fewer hospitalizations and diagnoses during their adult...
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BA.2 omicron subvariant's swift rise to dominance in Gothenburg wastewater
Concentrations of coronavirus in the Gothenburg area's wastewater are still decreasing. The latest measurements and analyses from the University of...
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Sevoflurane improves sleep alteration in response to inflammation
Getting a good night's sleep can sometimes be a challenge, but inflammation may make it even more difficult. While the relationship between...
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Ceramides—Blood lipids provide new insights into the link between diet and diabetes and cardiovascular disease
Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease are preceded by metabolic alterations. A current study by the DZD and DIfE indicates that specific lipid...
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The neural mechanisms behind autism: Altered sensory processing of communication signals
Voice processing is an evolutionary preserved process. Voice-specific responses are already present in utero and voice-specific brain responses...
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Drugmaker GSK names healthcare spinoff Haleon
British drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline said Tuesday that its consumer healthcare division will be spun off later this year under the name Haleon.
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Dipping into Sri Lanka's rural wells to investigate a cluster of chronic kidney disease cases
As an undergraduate chemistry major at Union College, Jake Ulrich studied abroad in Vietnam, where water wasn't safe to drink straight from the...
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Photonic technology enables fast, sensitive saliva test for COVID-19
Researchers from ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences and IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, both in Spain, have demonstrated a new low-cost...
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Adolescent psychological well-being tied to adult risk of cardiovascular disease, study finds
Scientists have known for years that a person's risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) can be lowered with lifestyle changes such as modifying diet,...
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Trial to ease knee pain in school kids
Deakin researchers are exploring a simple, low-cost solution to help relieve kneecap pain in adolescents.
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AGA recommends shared decision-making approach for treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common form of primary liver cancer, remains a deadly cancer with an incidence that has tripled in the...
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Analysis offers new insights on the placebo effect and how to harness its therapeutic potential
A network of brain regions activated by the placebo effect overlaps with several regions targeted by brain-stimulation therapy for depression,...
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Connecting science to medicine: Tendon-like tissue created from human stem cells
Tendons are tissues that connect muscles to bones and are important for movement and locomotion. Injuries to tendons are quite common, with...
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Non-athlete college students may be less likely to contract COVID-19 than young adults in the general population
Not only are student athletes less likely to contract COVID-19 than the rest of the student population, non-athlete students are in turn less...
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Depression in youth and adults: Origin, outcomes and relation to other diseases
Depression is a common and serious mental health condition. It causes a wide variety of symptoms, such as feeling hopeless and sad, and losing...