Free cinema tickets or a step tracker paid for by your health insurance. Some insurers offer rewards to promote healthy behavior. But does the threat of losing something like a deposit work better? And what do patients think? ...
Feb 26, 2024
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A new study shows children living in marginalized communities are at a higher risk of experiencing pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (POHCA)—a rare, life-threatening event occurring outside a hospital setting in ...
Feb 26, 2024
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Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers flooded journals with studies about the then-novel coronavirus. Many publications streamlined the peer-review process for COVID-19 papers while keeping acceptance rates relatively ...
Feb 26, 2024
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Syphilis is on the rise in Texas and nationally, causing serious medical complications, especially for newborn babies who contract the disease during pregnancy.
Feb 26, 2024
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Children whose mothers have received antibiotic treatment during childbirth are more likely to develop autoimmune diseases compared to their counterparts, according to a recent registry-based study published in the American ...
Feb 22, 2024
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The Wistar Institute's associate professor Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, Ph.D., has demonstrated, with his lab and collaborators, a connection between viral damage to the gut and premature biological aging.
Feb 22, 2024
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For the first time researchers have identified patterns of risk for several different types of cancer in men with fertility problems and their families.
Feb 21, 2024
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Raised blood pressure has been the leading risk factor for death in Australia for the past three decades, according to a study published February 21, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE led by Alta Schutte and Xiaoyue ...
Feb 21, 2024
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Over the past two decades, there has been a significant increase in the incidence of primary liver cancer in the U.S., with higher rates observed in men. Its burden increases with age and disproportionately affects men, with ...
Feb 21, 2024
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Researchers have revealed the mechanism of a drug shown to be effective in treating certain types of cancer, which targets a protein modification silencing the expression of multiple tumor suppressor genes. They also demonstrated ...
Feb 21, 2024
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