Researchers from the Latin American and Caribbean Cohort Consortium (CC-LAC) developed a risk algorithm specific to the Latin American and Caribbean region. These equations include information such as age, cholesterol level, ...
Jul 18, 2022
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The World Health Organization said Wednesday it will reconvene its monkeypox experts to decide if the worsening outbreak now constitutes a global public health emergency—the highest level of alert.
Jul 6, 2022
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Research from a new study suggests that health anxiety among the clinically vulnerable groups who shielded at home has risen since the first pandemic wave, despite developments in viral treatment and the roll-out of the vaccination ...
Jul 1, 2022
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Sexual minorities, particularly men, who experience perceived social rejection are more likely to indulge in risky coping behaviors, according to new research published today in the journal Drug and Alcohol Review.
Jun 23, 2022
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As prices for genetic testing go down and awareness of what these tests can do goes up, more and more people are choosing to have their DNA analyzed. One limitation to these tests is that even when they are conducted with ...
Jun 2, 2022
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Children with high-risk neuroblastoma had worse outcomes if they were from certain racial/ethnic groups, or were on public rather than private insurance, despite being treated in clinical trials with standardized protocols, ...
Jun 1, 2022
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Although everyone has been affected by COVID-19 and the pandemic it spawned, not all populations have been affected equally. In the United States, for example, COVID-19 cases and death rates have been disproportionately high ...
May 26, 2022
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Unmarried heart failure patients appear less confident in managing their condition and more socially limited compared to their married counterparts, according to research presented May 21 at Heart Failure 2022, a scientific ...
May 23, 2022
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New research being presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, Netherlands (4-7 May), suggests that most adults in the UK did not lose or gain enough weight following the first pandemic lockdown ...
May 6, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic has afforded researchers a unique lens through which to study racial inequities in health care delivery and outcomes in the U.S. And according to a paper co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...
Apr 14, 2022
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