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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Polygenic risk scores for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are associated with ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) structure and function, ac...

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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Children with neurologic comorbidities undergoing surgery have an elevated risk for pneumonia within 30 days after surgery, according to a study p...

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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- During the COVID-19 pandemic, participation in cancer clinical treatment trials recovered, according to a study published online July 29 in JAMA N...

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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Certain dermoscopic structures associated with melanoma detection may have diagnostic importance, including shiny white structures, pseudopods, an...

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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Published papers addressing the risk and outcomes of COVID-19 in patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis receiving biologic therapies have...

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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Consumption of a plant-centered, high-quality diet starting in young adulthood is associated with a lower risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), w...

Aug 04, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 vaccines will be offered to migrants in U.S. custody at the Mexican border, federal government officials said Tuesday.The Department of H...

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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- All 11 million residents of the city of Wuhan will be tested for COVID-19 after three locally transmitted cases were reported in the city on Monda...

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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is speeding up its timetable for full approval of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, hoping to complete the pro...

Aug 04, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The monoclonal antibody therapy REGEN-COV was authorized for emergency use as a postexposure prophylaxis for COVID-19 in those at high risk for se...

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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Wealthy nations should not be giving COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to their citizens while poor nations struggle to get first doses of vaccines, ...

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TUESDAY, Aug. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Booster COVID-19 shots will be offered to 32 million people in Britain starting early next month because of fears that the power of vaccines may be ...

Aug 04, 2021

TUESDAY, Aug. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) may identify hospitalized COVID-19 patients at higher risk for in-hospital death, according to a study publishe...

Aug 04, 2021

TUESDAY, Aug. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Women's use of a range of preventive health services was down in 2020, according to a study published online July 2 in JAMA Health Forum.Nora V. Bec...

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TUESDAY, Aug. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In a report published online July 28 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, an expert consensus decision pathway (ECDP) is presented ...

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TUESDAY, Aug. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with recurrent vasovagal syncope and no serious comorbid conditions, midodrine can reduce the recurrence of syncope, according to a stu...

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TUESDAY, Aug. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There was no unusual change in preterm birth or stillbirth rates in Canada in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published onli...

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TUESDAY, Aug. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For Hispanics/Latinos, central obesity in the presence of cardiometabolic abnormality is associated with poorer cognitive trajectories, according to...

Aug 04, 2021

TUESDAY, Aug. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The incidence of myopia increased among schoolchildren in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online Aug. 2 in th...

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TUESDAY, Aug. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The delta variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) accounts for most cases of breakthrough infection among vaccinated...

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