Despite being home to some of the world's most dangerous animals, Australia has led the English-speaking world in life expectancy for the last three decades. As for other high-income Anglophone countries, the Irish saw the ...
Aug 13, 2024
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In contrast to other commonly-diagnosed cancers like colorectal and lung cancer, the five-year survival rate after diagnosis for pancreatic cancer is alarmingly low, at 8.5% in Japan.
Sep 5, 2024
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New research being presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Madrid, Spain (9-13 September), shows that eating fruit, oats and rye in childhood is associated with a higher ...
Sep 8, 2024
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Based on the UK Biobank cohort of more than 68,000 people, a new study led by Dr. Junqing Xie evaluated the impact of various lifestyle factors such as smoking, alcohol intake, BMI, physical activity, sedentary time, sleep ...
Aug 14, 2024
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A new study has found that Americans have the lowest life expectancy of similar English-speaking countries.
Aug 15, 2024
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Homicide is a major reason behind lower and more variable reduction in life expectancy for Black rather than white men in recent years, according to a new study published August 21, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE ...
Aug 21, 2024
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In the late 1980s, Linda Rose Frank began working with HIV-positive individuals at the University of Pittsburgh. At the time, those affected were mainly young men with a terrifying prognosis.
Sep 2, 2024
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From 2020 to 2021, life expectancy at birth declined for 39 U.S. states and increased for 11 states, according to the Aug. 21 National Vital Statistics Reports.
Aug 21, 2024
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For the first time, a multi-medical society panel has developed and endorsed a uniform lexicon for describing the observations seen on ultrasound during the first trimester of pregnancy. The lexicon, based on scientific evidence, ...
Aug 27, 2024
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There's an urgent need for more careful antibiotic management to protect older people living in residential aged care from the dangerous spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria or "superbugs," researchers from Flinders University ...
Aug 29, 2024
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