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'Patient influencers' are booming on social media. Is that good or bad?
"OMG. Have you guys heard about this?"
Apr 5, 2022
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Health
US adult smoking rate fell during first year of pandemic
The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic saw more Americans drinking heavily or using illicit drugs—but apparently not smoking.
Mar 17, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
World Trade Center responders at higher risk for blood cancer-associated mutations
Scientists from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) collaborated with researchers from New York to determine that 9/11 first responders to the World Trade Center have increased levels of mutations that escalate their risk ...
Mar 7, 2022
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Health
Research says fad diets don't work: Why are they so popular?
Two years into a pandemic that landed people in their living rooms, generating countless hours of television binging and stress eating, the nation has a new problem to worry about: Nearly half of U.S. adults, many already ...
Feb 18, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Patients' groups, progressives square off over Medicare Alzheimer's decision
Advocates on both sides of a debate over dramatically restricting Medicare's coverage of an expensive and controversial Alzheimer's treatment are waging competing campaigns to influence a final decision in April.
Feb 16, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How the intellectual property monopoly has impeded an effective response to COVID-19
In an interconnected world, a pandemic can be overcome only when it is overcome everywhere—no one is safe until everyone is safe. Vaccination delays and supply shortages in protective equipment and treatments increase the ...
Feb 15, 2022
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Vaccination
EU, Africa at odds over vaccine patents ahead of summit
The EU on Monday stood by its refusal to lift patent protections on COVID vaccines, just days ahead of a summit with African Union countries who see the issue as a priority.
Feb 14, 2022
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Health
Clean indoor air would do more than help us fight COVID, it would help us concentrate
Sometimes the best things you can do are invisible.
Feb 8, 2022
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Health
Industry arguments against alcohol labelling influencing policy discussions at World Trade Organisation, study suggests
Arguments known to come from the alcohol industry are being put forward by World Trade Organization (WTO) representatives to discourage countries from implementing alcohol health warning labels, according to a qualitative ...
Feb 2, 2022
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Medications
Middlemen net more than half of insulin expenditures, study finds
Despite its discovery nearly 100 years ago, insulin's list price has been going up, not down, with trade secrets and other protections preventing researchers from pinpointing who is receiving profits from its sale. Meanwhile, ...
Nov 5, 2021
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