Frequent pot smokers face twice the odds for stroke
(HealthDay)—Smoking pot doesn't do your heart or your brain any favors, a pair of new studies shows.
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(HealthDay)—Smoking pot doesn't do your heart or your brain any favors, a pair of new studies shows.
Nov 11, 2019
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Sitting barely six feet away from me, my patient yelled angrily, his face mask slipping to his upper lip: "No, I will not get vaccinated. And nothing you do or say will change that fact." He provided no reason for why he ...
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A commonly used behavioral intervention—informing primary care physicians about how their performance compares to that of their peers—has no statistically significant impact on preventive care performance. It does, however, ...
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering have created a machine-learning algorithm that can detect subtle signs of osteoarthritis—too abstract ...
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Biomedical engineers and surgeons at Duke University and UCLA have demonstrated an antibiotic coating that can be applied to orthopedic implants minutes before surgery that eliminates the chances of an infection around the ...
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The risk of developing myocarditis—or inflammation of the heart muscle—is seven times higher with a COVID-19 infection than with the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a recent study by Penn State College of Medicine scientists, ...
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A group of 26 of the nation's leaders in medicine, health care, patient safety, and research today called for sweeping changes in the design, supervision and financing of U.S. hospital residency care programs to protect patients ...
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Five-year survival for younger adults with colorectal cancer (CRC) improved only for whites between 1992 and 2013, according to a new analysis to be presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2022. However, no survival gains ...
May 24, 2022
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A study of ChatGPT found the artificial intelligence tool answered less than half of the test questions correctly from a study resource commonly used by physicians when preparing for board certification in ophthalmology.
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An overwhelming 75% of Wyoming voters oppose permitting nurse anesthetists to administer anesthesia without the supervision of a physician, and 93% of voters want to be informed prior to surgery if a hospital does not have ...
Jan 11, 2022
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