By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – A small study finds that some people lose their ability to swim when their Parkinson’s disease is treated with deep brain stimulation. Researchers identified nine cases of...
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By Carl O’Donnell and Tamara Mathias (Reuters) – Eleven drugmakers led by Pfizer and...
Read More(Corrects headline of Nov. 18 story to make clear prize is world’s largest annual award, not world’s largest overall) By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s Champalimaud Foundation announced on...
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Further follow-up needed to assess benefit of PSA screening in male BRCA1 mutation carriers
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Odds of incident eating disorder diagnosis up with use of diet pill, laxative for weight control
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Frequent handwashing may reduce likelihood of novel strain introduction into the household
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37 percent of patients experience radiation adverse effects they wished they had known more about
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Age <65 years, female sex, high comorbidity burden independently linked to cost-related nonadherence
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Antimicrobial nonsusceptibility less prevalent in pediatric than adult health care-associated infections
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1968 to 2017 saw decrease in object-related aspiration deaths among adolescents and children
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Early observations show lower waitlist mortality but higher posttransplant mortality or retransplantation
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Exposure to most substances decreased, but significant increases seen in marijuana, nutmeg, and kratom
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Risk elevated for complications, adverse perinatal outcomes, early childhood respiratory disorders
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Rates of postoperative mortality high across all levels of the Operative Stress Score for frail patients
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Findings controlled for personal characteristics, practice organization, practice environment
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Levetiracetam, fosphenytoin, valproate treat seizures unresponsive to benzodiazepine in children, adults
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Use of supplemental MRI results in diagnosis of fewer interval cancers than mammography alone
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