People who have survived a heart attack have gained increasingly better protection against new serious cardiovascular events over the past two decades. At the same time, the risk of bleeding complications has increased. A ...
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People need social contact to build relationships. At the same time, close contact carries a risk of spreading infectious diseases. In a study appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from ...
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A typical pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, but for about 1 in 10 pregnant women labor begins too soon. Premature or preterm birth is the leading cause of newborn deaths worldwide. Yet doctors have struggled to understand why preterm ...
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In 2018, Arizona lawmakers began requiring clinicians who prescribe high doses of opioids to also prescribe naloxone, the overdose-reversal medication commonly known by the brand name Narcan.
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Although more than 100,000 people are on the national transplant waiting list in the U.S., thousands of donated kidneys are discarded each year, often because they're slightly older, with fewer years of remaining function.
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The first clinical trial of an Ebola vaccine is expected to begin in the Democratic Republic of Congo by the end of October, World Health Organization experts said Tuesday.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is still the world's deadliest infectious disease. In Taiwan, where the population is aging quickly, most TB patients are now older than 65. A new study from Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, published in The ...
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If you struggle with insomnia, could medical marijuana help you get a better night's sleep?
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Long-term use of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) has serious consequences for the heart, according to a new study that has been following weightlifters for nearly 10 years.
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The age at which a woman experiences menopause and her reproductive history may be associated with how quickly she ages biologically, according to a study led by researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National ...
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