Health
Single parents more likely to allow cigarette smoking in the home than two-parent families
Are you a single parent? Do you allow smoking inside your home?
Jan 27, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Can a second opinion make a difference?
Your doctor may be the smartest, most compassionate, thoughtful person in the world—a leading specialist or someone you've trusted for years. But you shouldn't let that stop you from getting a second opinion.
Jan 23, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
This year's flu season taking deadly aim at kids
(HealthDay)—How bad or how long this year's flu season will be remains to be seen. But one thing is already clear: It's proving to be an especially lethal season for infected children.
Jan 22, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
US begins airport screenings as SARS-linked virus kills 2 in China
The US will begin screening passengers Friday arriving from a Chinese city at the heart of a mysterious SARS-linked virus, officials said, after an outbreak that has stricken dozens claimed a second life.
Jan 17, 2020
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
When pregnant moms are stressed out, babies' brains suffer
Knowing that your unborn fetus has congenital heart disease causes such pronounced maternal stress, anxiety and depression that these women's fetuses end up with impaired development in key brain regions before they are born, ...
Jan 13, 2020
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Neuroscience
New possible strategy for treating chronic pain due to burns may help sufferers including veterans
New research shows how second-degree burns cause hard-to-treat chronic pain, and this understanding may be key to treating these complications, common in war veterans This research, published in Physiological Reports, suggests ...
Jan 10, 2020
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Health
To avoid falls, check your balance
(HealthDay)—Bad balance is a common cause of dangerous falls, especially among older adults. Falls send more than 2 million adults to the emergency room every year and often result in lengthy rehab stays.
Dec 26, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Can you die from a common cold?
Most people know that the flu can kill. Indeed, the so-called Spanish flu killed 50 million people in 1918—more than were killed in the first world war. But what about the common cold? Can you really catch your death?
Dec 23, 2019
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Addiction
In the fight for money for the opioid crisis, will the youngest victims be left out?
Babies born to mothers who used opioids during pregnancy represent one of the most distressing legacies of an opioid epidemic that has claimed almost 400,000 lives and ravaged communities.
Dec 16, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
'Hey, what is this?': Social media, not docs, increasingly diagnosing STDs
(HealthDay)—The HIV test came back positive and the patient, full of fear and denial, took to the STD forum on the popular social media site Reddit.
Nov 5, 2019
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