New research published in Diabetologia and presented at this year's annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., shows that excessively high body mass index (BMI) in adolescents is ...
Jun 5, 2022
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Stanford University researchers have developed a mathematical model that could help public health officials and policymakers curb an opioid epidemic that took the lives of an estimated 49,000 Americans last year.
Aug 23, 2018
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(HealthDay)—The first injection drug to prevent HIV infection was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday.
Dec 21, 2021
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Reformulation of the pain medicine OxyContin in 2010 to make it more difficult to abuse directly led to a large rise in hepatitis C infections as drug abusers switched from the prescription medication to injectable heroin, ...
Feb 4, 2019
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(HealthDay)—The U.S. obesity epidemic is a driving force behind the rising rates of type 2 diabetes, according to a new study.
Sep 2, 2014
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Diabetes-related vision loss most often is blamed on blood vessel damage in and around the retina, but new research indicates that much of that vision loss may result from nerve cell injury that occurs long before any blood ...
Mar 24, 2016
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On January 12, 2010 a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, killing thousands of people and displacing millions more.
Apr 11, 2016
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It's a new year, and once again, the opioid epidemic continues to hold a tight grasp on millions of Americans. At the end of last year, the United States reached a major milestone of over one million overdose deaths since ...
Mar 30, 2023
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Teenage boys who have high blood pressure may find themselves on the road to serious heart problems in adulthood.
Sep 30, 2023
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A new study about the overwhelming importance of "superspreaders" in some infectious disease epidemics has shown that in the catastrophic 2014-15 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, about 3 percent of the people infected were ...
Feb 13, 2017
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