Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who undergo major surgery are more likely to die in the year after surgery and incur higher health care costs than similar patients without COPD, found a new study ...
Jan 17, 2023
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Exposure to low doses of ionizing radiation is associated with a modestly increased excess risk of heart disease, finds an analysis of the latest evidence published by The BMJ today.
Mar 8, 2023
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Closing schools and workplaces appear to have been the most effective strategies to mitigate deaths from COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic's first wave, according to a study of 130 countries.
Jun 17, 2022
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A study released in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine by Providence, one of the largest health systems in the United States, confirms the overall effectiveness of vaccines in preventing severe infection resulting in hospitalization ...
Feb 26, 2022
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Lesbian and bisexual women are at increased risk of being overweight or obese compared to heterosexual women, according to new research from the University of East Anglia and UCL.
Feb 20, 2019
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What drives a person to smoke cigarettes—and keeps one out of six U.S. adults addicted to tobacco use, at a cost of 480,000 premature deaths each year despite decades of anti-smoking campaigns? What role do emotions play ...
Jan 9, 2020
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For decades, doctors have warned about the health risks of smoking. However, their warnings focused on the physical risks that cigarettes pose to health, such as lung cancer, heart disease, low birth weight and high blood ...
Jan 8, 2020
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Living close to the sea could support better mental health in England's poorest urban communities, finds a new study published today in the journal Health and Place.
Sep 30, 2019
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The novel coronavirus began spreading in New York City in February, before widespread testing began, and the strain so far identified in local samples came from Europe, a scientist said Wednesday.
Apr 8, 2020
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Human genome editing for both research and therapy is progressing, raising ethical questions among scientists around the world.
Jan 21, 2016
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