Archive: 12/10/2018

Medicine balls: Exercise tools that add fun to fitness

(HealthDay)—Want to add a new type of challenge to your exercise routine?

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C-section rates have nearly doubled since 2000: study

(HealthDay)—The number of women delivering babies via cesarean section has nearly doubled worldwide since 2000, to about 21 percent, new research shows.

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Nine cases of polio-like illness suspected in children in illinois

(HealthDay)—Nine recent cases of a rare, polio-like disorder in children are being investigated in Illinois, health officials said yesterday.

Oct 12, 2018

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Hidden hunger affects nearly 2 billion worldwide – are solutions in plain sight?

Incredible strides have been made to eradicate hunger around the world since World War II. New technology, foreign aid, and a world economy that has grown more than 30-fold have combined to lift hundreds of millions out of ...

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Oscillations provide insights into the brain's navigation system

The brain creates a map of our environment, which enables reliable spatial navigation. The Nobel Prize was awarded in 2014 for research into how this navigation system works at the cellular level. Researchers at the Medical ...

Oct 12, 2018

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Spending often persists in high-cost Medicare-Medicaid eligible

(HealthDay)—More than half of patients who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid and are designated as high-cost in one year remain persistently high-cost over three years, according to a study published online Oct. ...

Oct 12, 2018

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Interpreters are key for stroke patients struggling to understand

Before he stood in rooms at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas interpreting between Spanish-speaking patients and English-speaking health care providers, Cruz Ramirez did so informally as a child.

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Researchers find a 'critical need' for whole genome sequencing of young cancer patients

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has re-defined the gold standard for diagnostic testing of childhood cancer patients in the precision-medicine era and has implemented the testing for new cancer patients. The findings ...

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Basophils: Underestimated players in lung development

The adult lung consists of highly specialized cell types that are protected by a variety of immune cells. How these immune cells migrate to the lungs during development and after birth, and how these cells influence each ...

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Religious freedom laws linked to poor health in LGBT people

States' religious freedom laws may be linked to poorer self-reported health among people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or are unsure of their sexual orientation—a group known as sexual minorities—according to a national ...

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