With heart disease and diabetes—which can be caused or worsened by poor diet—among the leading causes of death and illness for adults in the United States, researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development ...
Nov 13, 2023
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New research finds that almost half of people who use illicit drugs in rural areas have been recently incarcerated.
Nov 9, 2023
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A research simulation suggests that a drone delivery system could improve access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs), a portable device that can shock the heart rhythm back to normal when a person is experiencing ...
Nov 6, 2023
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A new article published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews has found that insulin can be kept at room temperature for months without losing potency, offering hope to people living with diabetes in regions with ...
Nov 2, 2023
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With long waiting lists, significant journey times, an ever-shrinking number of doctor's practices and the aging population, medical care services in sparsely populated regions are under mounting pressure. As part of its ...
Nov 2, 2023
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Ashton Glover Gatewood decided to give medical school a second try after learning about a new campus designed for Indigenous students like herself.
Nov 2, 2023
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In 2018 the United Nations predicted that 68% of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2050, an increase from 55% today and a cause for concern among researchers who have identified multiple mental health risk ...
Oct 26, 2023
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The leading causes of deaths worldwide are diseases that are not acquired through infection from other people but through a combination of individual physiology and lifestyle, the so-called "noncommunicable diseases" (NCDs). ...
Oct 26, 2023
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Now published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, a recent Mayo Clinic study of residents living in a mostly rural, 11-county region of southeast Minnesota found that patients with heart failure and multiple ...
Oct 26, 2023
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When several representatives from private health insurance companies called on him a few years ago to offer Medicare Advantage plan contracts so their enrollees could use his hospital, Bleak sent them away.
Oct 25, 2023
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