Pregnant women in the UK are now officially advised to consume no alcohol at all. These guidelines, from the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), were issued in January 2016, and replaced a previous recommendation that women should ...
Sep 20, 2019
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Obesity often leads to increased accumulation of fat in the liver, which can, over time, result in diabetes, poor liver function, and liver cancer. It's increasingly a problem affecting obese children and young people who ...
Sep 20, 2019
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Though research shows that medication-assisted treatment can help people who are addicted to opioids, the three drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are underused, according to a review of current medical ...
Sep 19, 2019
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Eating patterns similar to the Mediterranean diet and the blood pressure-lowering DASH may help older women with Type 2 diabetes ward off heart attacks, strokes and related problems, new research suggests.
Sep 19, 2019
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(HealthDay)—While you can take Social Security benefits at age 62 and get 75% of your maximum, waiting until you reach full retirement age (between age 66 and 67 depending on the year you were born) gets you much closer ...
Sep 18, 2019
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Researchers have long known that childhood trauma is linked to poorer health for women at midlife. A new study shows one important reason why.
Sep 18, 2019
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Use of the Daybreak digital app, developed as an intervention to support high-risk drinking individuals looking to change their relationship with alcohol, can lead to clinically significant reductions in alcohol use, according ...
Sep 05, 2019
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Although the effectiveness of medications to treat adults with opioid use disorder has been well established, there has been little research about how—or even if—such treatment works in adolescents.
Sep 11, 2019
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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)—the accumulation of liver fat in people who drink little or no alcohol—is increasingly common around the world, and in the United States, it affects between 30 and 40 percent ...
Aug 29, 2019
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Living alone is associated with difficulties using the "blood thinner" warfarin in men, but not women, according to research presented today at ESC Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology.
Sep 02, 2019
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If you're looking to shed a few pounds, you might be tempted to try out popular new approaches like the keto diet or fasting.
Aug 30, 2019
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A little over a year ago, Eric Dunham had the operation that saved his life: a double transplant to give him a new liver and a new kidney. Chronic, heavy drinking had destroyed his own organs. It also led to a condition called ...
Aug 30, 2019
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Yonas Getu Molla started chewing khat as an architecture student, when he and his friends would munch on the leafy stimulant late into the night to help them study.
Aug 28, 2019
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Unhealthy products—including junk food, alcohol and gambling—are leading causes of cancer, obesity, diabetes, mental illness and many social harms. In New Zealand, alcohol alone contributes to an estimated 800 deaths ...
Sep 12, 2019
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College students' use of marijuana in 2018 was at the highest level seen in the past three-and-a-half decades, according to the University of Michigan's annual national Monitoring the Future Panel study.
Sep 05, 2019
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