Tag: health

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain At least 57 people suffered from diarrhea and vomiting after swimming in the sea during the ...

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Robust analysis challenges theory that depression and anxiety increase cancer risk

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Depression and anxiety are thought to increase a person's risk of developing cancer, but research results ...

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Study supports government initiative to give free vapes to disadvantaged people who want to quit smoking

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A government scheme to give out free vapes to smokers appeals to most but not all, ...

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To protect a mother’s health: How abortion ban exemptions play out in a post-‘Roe’ world

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain This pregnancy felt different. After the heartache of more than a dozen miscarriages, Anya Cook was ...

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Mathematical theory predicts self-organized learning in real neurons

The experimental setup. Cultured neurons grew on top of electrodes. Patterns of electrical stimulation trained the neurons to reorganize so ...

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‘Not Going to Change a Hardened Racist’: What We Heard This Week

"Taking some dippy course is not going to change a hardened racist." -- Marilyn Singleton, MD, a Los Angeles-based anesthesiologist, ...

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It Shouldn’t Take Another Pandemic to Invest in Digital Health

Saldanha is chief innovation officer of a health system. The public health emergency, declared in 2020 as a result of ...

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Prenatal Screening Sets Up Younger Babies for Heart Defect Surgery

Even with the arrival of mandatory newborn screening for congenital heart defects (CHDs), prenatal diagnosis was tied to younger age ...

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Adcetris Plus Chemo Effective in HIV-Related Hodgkin Lymphoma

Brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris) in combination with doxorubicin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (AVD) was effective for patients with HIV-related stages II-IV classical ...

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When It Comes to Eye Care, AI Couldn’t See Straight