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Drug May Help Folks Kick the Vaping Habit
An experimental anti-nicotine drug appears to help people quit vaping, a new study says. Cytisinicline is a naturally occurring plant-based substance that binds to nicotine receptors in the brain, reducing a person’s cravings, researchers said. The drug...
- Posted May 7, 2024
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Small Pump May Let Kids Stay Home As They Await New Heart
A small, implantable heart pump could help children await heart transplants at home rather than languishing in a hospital, according to a new study. The pump is surgically attached to augment the heart’s blood-pumping action, giving more...
- Posted May 7, 2024
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Gene Therapy Improves Vision in People With Inherited Blindness
An injectable gene therapy caused measurable improvements in vision among a small group of people with inherited blindness, an early-stage clinical trial says. Researchers recruited 14 people with Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), a rare genetic condition that...
- Posted May 6, 2024
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Parental Deaths to Guns, Drugs Harmed Nearly 100,000 U.S. Kids in 2020
Nearly 100,000 U.S. children lost a parent in 2020 to gun violence or drug overdose, a three-fold rise since 1999, according to a new study. Overall, these two causes made up nearly a quarter (23%) of parental...
- Posted May 6, 2024
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Money Worries Top Seniors’ List of Health-Related Concerns: Poll
Worries over health-related costs are plaguing the minds of older Americans of all backgrounds, a new poll suggests. Five of the six health-related issues that most people found very concerning had to do with health care costs,...
- Posted May 6, 2024
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Scientists Developing Vaccine Against Present and Future COVID Viruses
Scientists are busy working on a vaccine that might fight strains of the COVID virus SARS-CoV-2 that haven’t even emerged yet. The effort from a British team at the University of Cambridge is already showing promise in...
- Posted May 6, 2024
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ERs Often Missing Epilepsy in Kids With ‘Non-Motor’ Seizures
Two-thirds of kids who suffer a subtle type of epileptic seizure go undiagnosed when they seek emergency room treatment, new research shows. “We do not know how many people are walking around with seizures that they are...
- Posted May 6, 2024
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Parents of Infants With Cystic Fibrosis Often Feel Confused, Unsupported: Survey
Parents of newborns diagnosed with cystic fibrosis often are confused about both the disease and their next steps, a new national survey has found. In fact, about half of new parents don’t even know that newborns are...
- Posted May 6, 2024
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Avoid Some ‘Project Watson’ Dog Eye Wipes Due to Infection Danger
Pets and pet owners who come into contact with Bausch & Lomb’s “Project Watson” dog eye wipes could be at risk for infection if the products come from certain lots. The wipes are used to clean a...
- Posted May 6, 2024
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New Test Might Alert Pregnant Women to Preeclampsia Danger
A potentially dangerous spike in blood pressure known as preeclampsia can occur in 1 in every 25 pregnancies, but an accurate test to spot those women at highest risk has remained elusive. Now, Canadian researchers at Université...
- Posted May 6, 2024