While heat is the number one weather-related cause of death in the United States, many of these deaths are preventable, says an emergency medicine doctor at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.
Jun 24, 2024
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A class of drugs already on the market to lower blood pressure appears to reduce adults' risk of developing epilepsy, Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues have discovered. The finding comes out of an analysis ...
Jun 18, 2024
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The number of individuals in the U.S. who had chronic hypertension or chronic high blood pressure during pregnancy doubled between 2008 and 2021, while the prescribing and filling of antihypertensive medication during pregnancy ...
Jun 17, 2024
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Women experience menopause at different ages—and different ways—which can, among other things, affect their heart health.
Jun 12, 2024
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Having medical conditions linked to obesity does not impact the total weight loss achieved with the anti-obesity medication tirzepatide, according to an industry-supported study being presented Saturday at ENDO 2024, the ...
Jun 1, 2024
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Research conducted by the University's School of Medicine, in collaboration with Helmholtz Munich, and in partnership with an international team of researchers from Italy, UK and the U.S., has revealed that a person's chronotype—the ...
May 16, 2024
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Heather Crivilare was a month from her due date when she was rushed to an operating room for an emergency cesarean section.
May 16, 2024
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Records from nearly 30,000 nursing home residents indicate that blood pressure medications more than double the risk of life-threatening bone fractures, according to Rutgers Health research.
May 15, 2024
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Motor impairment following brain injury has long been thought to be purely anatomical, and that traumatic brain injury, stroke or other neurological injury results in abnormal muscle tightness and rigidity. Evidence of this ...
May 15, 2024
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While weight-loss medications are having a positive effect on many Americans' health, it is important to also talk about nutrition. Not just the "please eat healthy and exercise" narrative (despite its truth), but making ...
May 13, 2024
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