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College Students With ADHD Have Lower Grades, Higher Dropout Rates
College students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have a harder time making it to graduation than their peers do, a new study suggests. Researchers found that of 400 students they followed, those with ADHD had a lower grade-point...
- Posted March 3, 2021
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AHA News: Calming Us Down or Revving Us Up, Music Can Be Good for the Heart
WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — Stuck in traffic, with a nasty storm making a stressful commute even worse, Joanne Loewy reached for the car radio. “I felt my heartbeat rise,” said Loewy, director...
- Posted March 3, 2021
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COVID Vaccines for All American Adults by the End of May: Biden
(Healthday News) — The United States is now poised to have enough COVID-19 vaccines for every American adult by the end of May, President Joe Biden said Tuesday. The announcement, which came during a brief speech at...
- Posted March 3, 2021
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Health Highlights: March 3, 2021
Texas, Mississippi Drop Mask Mandates Texas has lifted its mask mandate and all businesses can reopen next Wednesday with no seating limits, Gov. Gregg Abbott announced Tuesday. Abbott’s moves came as federal health officials have cautioned governors...
- Posted March 3, 2021
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Talking Points: People Rarely End Conversations When They Want To
Ever been caught in small-talk you secretly wanted to end? So has nearly everyone else, according to new research that finds that both partners in a conversation often want it to end sooner than it does. The...
- Posted March 3, 2021
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‘Rerouting’ Brain Blood Flow: Old Technique Could Be New Advance Against Strokes
Doctors are testing a decades-old surgical technique as a new way to treat certain stroke patients. And the preliminary results look promising, they say. At issue are strokes caused by intracranial atherosclerosis, where blood vessels within the...
- Posted March 3, 2021
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NIH Halts Trial of Convalescent Plasma for Mild COVID-19
A clinical trial evaluating the use of convalescent plasma in patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms has been halted because the treatment didn’t benefit them, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Convalescent plasma (also...
- Posted March 3, 2021
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Choice of Brand-Name Drug Over Generics Costs Medicare Nearly $2 Billion Annually
Wider use of prescription generic drugs could save Medicare nearly $2 billion a year, researchers say. The new analysis of Medicare Part D prescription drug claims for 2017 used a random 20% of beneficiaries, 224 drugs with...
- Posted March 3, 2021
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Does an Arthritis Drug Help Patients Battling Severe COVID? It Depends on the Study
Two new studies suggest that the jury is still out on whether the arthritis drug tocilizumab helps those with severe COVID-19. Both reports were published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine. The first, from scientists...
- Posted March 3, 2021
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Patients With Sickle Cell Disease Often Overlooked for Life-Saving Kidney Transplants
People with kidney failure related to sickle cell disease are less likely to receive a transplant than those without sickle cell disease, but it could be life-saving for them, a new study finds. Sickle cell disease is...
- Posted March 3, 2021