EXPLAINER: Dental, vision and hearing benefits for Medicare
Many working-age people assume that Medicare covers just about every kind of health care that an older person may need.
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Quinn on Nutrition: What about lectins?
Reader Susan S. writes, in part: "Gut health is finally being brought up in mainstream more often. But almost never this: there are grains, nuts, fruits, and vegetables that have LECTINS that poke tiny holes in our intestines. ...
May 21, 2021
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Sequence African genomes for Africa and the world: scientist
A $4.5 billion initiative to sequence the genomes of three million Africans would not only benefit a continent long neglected in gene-based healthcare, but advance understanding of genetic disease worldwide, the project leader ...
Feb 11, 2021
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Sugar-binding protein galectin-1 could be a biomarker for patients at risk of life threatening sepsis
A sugar-binding protein could fuel terrible inflammation and worsen sepsis, a disease that kills more than 270,000 people every year in the US alone, reports a team of researchers led by UConn Health in the 4 January issue ...
Jan 4, 2021
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He went from open-heart surgery at 5 to a black belt at 7
After months of bed rest, then an emergency delivery six weeks early, Maria and Francisco Saldivar were relieved and elated when they saw their baby boy.
Dec 28, 2020
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Rare vaccine injury claims steered to obscure federal office
Though most people who protect themselves with a coronavirus vaccine will never develop serious side effects, such rare cases are barred from federal court and instead steered to an obscure program with a record of seldom ...
Dec 22, 2020
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Vaccine injury claims could face bureaucratic 'black hole'
Lost in the U.S. launch of the coronavirus vaccine is a fact most don't know when they roll up their sleeves: In rare cases of serious illness from the shots, the injured are blocked from suing and steered instead to an obscure ...
Dec 22, 2020
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Best of Last Year: The top Medical Xpress articles of 2020
It was a good year for medical research of all kinds, as a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego found a connection between gut bacteria and vitamin D levels. They discovered that gut microbiome diversity ...
2020 Nobel season opens with medicine prize
Breakthroughs in the field of health will be honoured Monday when the 2020 Nobel season kicks off with the medicine prize, as the world battles the worst pandemic in a century.
Oct 5, 2020
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If Obamacare goes away, here are eight ways your life will be affected
More than 10 years after its passage, the Affordable Care Act once more hangs in the balance. There have been plenty of near misses before, including previous Supreme Court appearances and Congressional votes. Yet in the ...
Sep 25, 2020
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