Cesareans are surging in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which has one of the world's highest rates with more than 50% of babies now delivered via surgery compared with only 32% on the U.S. mainland, according to a federal ...
Jan 10, 2024
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In 1976, a Swedish pathologist, C.G Lindström, published a paper describing a colonic anomaly. Through his microscope, he noted that part of the large intestinal wall of one of his patients was thickened. The patient, whose ...
Dec 13, 2023
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Researchers from Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine have identified the role of iron in ocular toxoplasmosis (OT), a form of toxoplasmosis that causes blindness. They found reduced iron concentration in the clear ...
Nov 15, 2023
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Around 5-10% of people in Australia experience symptoms for more than three months after a COVID infection, termed long COVID.
Oct 23, 2023
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More than 296 million people worldwide live with hepatitis B, a potentially life-threatening liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Most don't know they are infected, so they don't get medical care. Clinical ...
Jun 6, 2023
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New IRS guidance will allow older couples in the United States to contribute more than $10,000 to tax-free health savings accounts (HSA) next year.
May 22, 2023
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A new study by Cedars-Sinai investigators describes how ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, may help improve health outcomes for patients with cirrhosis and liver cancer by providing easy-to-understand information ...
Mar 31, 2023
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The number of tuberculosis deaths in Europe is on the rise again after declining for almost two decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday.
Mar 24, 2023
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Stroke symptoms that disappear in under an hour, known as a transient ischemic attack (TIA), need emergency assessment to help prevent a full-blown stroke, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement ...
Jan 19, 2023
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Introducing copayment elimination in primary care in Sweden for those over age 85 has not caused a rise in the number of health care visits. In terms of achieving the intended effect, the reform thus appears to have failed, ...
Dec 12, 2022
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