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Sticking With Meds Lowers Lupus Patients’ Diabetes Risk
FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Taking their medications as prescribed significantly lowers lupus patients’ risk of developing...
Patients Who Quit Smoking Before Weight-Loss Surgery Often Relapse: Study
FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Many people who quit smoking before having weight-loss surgery go back to cigarettes after the...
Health Highlights: Feb. 21, 2020
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Alzheimer’s Gene Mapping Project...
Breast Cancer Care Far From Home for Rural Patients
FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) — As rural hospitals and specialty care units close, a new study shows that some breast cancer...
When ‘Time Is Brain,’ Mobile Stroke Units Speed Care
FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Ambulances outfitted as “mobile stroke treatment units” provide faster treatment and reduce...
Brain Stent Could Cut Odds for a Second Stroke
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — For decades, artery-opening stents have helped prevent heart attacks, and new research...
Could the Weather Swings of Climate Change Make Flu Seasons Worse?
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Climate change, and the sudden weather changes it brings, could fuel future flu epidemics,...
Lung Diseases on the Rise Worldwide
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Lung diseases have been striking more people around the world in the past 30 years, new...
Wearable ‘Brain Stimulator’ May Boost Stroke Recovery
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — A noninvasive magnetic brain stimulation device worn less than an hour a day can increase...
Gay Men Underestimate Their Risks From HPV
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Young men who have sex with other men don’t fully grasp their risk for human papillomavirus...
Flu Vaccine Making a Strong Showing This Season
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Though a severe flu season is now in full swing in the United States, a new government report...
How ‘Stranger Things’ Widened Awareness of a Rare Disorder
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Teenage actor Gaten Matarazzo III was born with a rare genetic disorder that affects bone...
Your Best Bet Against Heart Attack, Stroke? Lower Blood Pressure
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Millions of Americans with high blood pressure are at risk of heart attack and stroke, but...
Health Highlights: Feb. 20, 2020
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: First Coronavirus Death Reported...
New China Coronavirus Cases Decline, 2 Passengers From Affected Cruise Ship Die
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The number of new COVID-19 coronavirus cases in China dropped Thursday, but the decline might...
AHA News: Research Opens New Avenues to Reduce Foot, Toe Amputations
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (American Heart Association News) — Emerging research may help doctors devise better ways to prevent some of the...
Who’s Caring for Family Caregivers? 1 in 5 Says Health Is Poor
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Caring for a loved one at home can be rewarding, but it can also be overwhelming and take a...
Skiers Study Suggests Fitness May Stave Off Parkinson’s
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Love to cross-country ski? Well, all those days spent striding across the snow-covered...
Many Americans Lack Knowledge, Not Desire, to Eat Plant-Based Diets
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — A new poll suggests that education is all that stops most Americans from embracing plant-based...
Another HIV Hazard: Higher Risk for COPD
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Adults with HIV have higher rates of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and are...
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