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(HealthDay)—Before the summer of 2018 was even one day old, 16 American kids had died after being left in hot cars, according to a group called KidsAndCars.org. Last year’s toll was 43, and, on average, 37 children die in hot cars each year in the United States. “We know there are families all across America right now holding their precious […]
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Men often tolerate stress urinary incontinence for more than two years before seeking medical help—and one-third put up with it for more than five years, making it important for doctors to check for this problem, a new study from UT Southwestern researchers advises. The study, published in the journal Urology, calls on men’s general practitioners and urologists to perform a […]
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Pancreatic cancer patients treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy before surgery may live longer than those who have immediate surgery, according to unpublished clinical trial results. The research, funded by the Dutch Cancer Society, looked at patients who had pancreatic cancer that could be removed by surgery because their cancer had not spread from the pancreas. Patients who had chemoradiotherapy before […]
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It’s hard to say goodbye! With just one week to go before Sarah Drew and Jessica Capshaw exit Grey’s Anatomy, the pair shared some sweet behind-the-scenes shots documenting their last day on set. “Here are some of my favorite people on the planet. While shooting this scene my heart was so full of joy and sadness at the same time […]
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People with severe mental illness have at least a two-and-a-half times higher risk of dying than the general population. In essence, people with severe mental illness are dying for the same sorts of reasons as the rest of the us – but there are more of them and they are dying younger. We examined the causes of deaths of almost […]
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The largest and most detailed study of the long-term impact of anticholinergic drugs, a class of drugs commonly prescribed in the United States and United Kingdom as antidepressants and incontinence medications, has found that their use is associated with increased risk of dementia, even when taken 20 years before diagnosis of cognitive impairment. An international research team from the US, […]
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Three-month-old babies cannot understand words and are just learning to roll over, yet they are already capable of learning abstract relations. In a new study, Northwestern University researchers show for the first time that 3-month-old infants can learn same and different relations. “Recent theories have suggested that humans’ fluency in relational learning—our ability to make comparisons between objects, events or […]
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