As a geriatrician or physician specially trained to treat older adults, Kenneth Lam, MD, MAS, has many years of experience working with families to understand when their older relatives should move into a nursing home or ...
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Huntington's disease causes involuntary movements and dementia, has no cure, and is fatal. For the first time, UC Riverside scientists have shown they can slow its progression in flies and worms, opening the door to human ...
Nov 8, 2023
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If pharmacists had a larger role in prescribing medications to control blood pressure, they could prevent more than 15 million heart attacks, nearly 8 million strokes and more than 4 million cases each of angina and heart ...
Nov 3, 2023
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Differences in health care expenditures between Black and white adults vary substantially with the local level of racial and economic integration, and tend to be low or nonexistent in highly integrated communities, according ...
Nov 3, 2023
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By analyzing data from the Harvard Implicit Association Test—a widely accepted measure of a person's attitudes toward people based on characteristics like race, gender, and sexuality—researchers find that health care ...
Nov 3, 2023
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A susceptibility to gain weight may be written into molecular processes of human cells, a Washington State University study indicates.
Nov 1, 2023
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An international research consortium led by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) has tested a rapid new analytical tool which needs just a blood sample from the fingertip.
Oct 31, 2023
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Health care prices—the negotiated rates between insurers and providers such as hospitals and doctors—vary widely across geography even for the same insurer, according to a new study.
Oct 31, 2023
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More than half of the estimated 374 million new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in 2020 were either chlamydia or gonorrhea, which are often asymptomatic and co-occurring, according to the World Health Organization. ...
Oct 27, 2023
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In study after study, the psychoactive drug ketamine has given profound and fast relief to many people suffering from severe depression. But these studies have a critical shortcoming: Participants usually can tell whether ...
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