All posts by LadyLively

  • Little More Learning Might Not Save Your Aging Brain

    In 1972, Britain bumped up the total school years mandated for its children from 15 to 16 years. That created a “natural experiment”: Would Britons who got that extra year of education fare any better, neurologically, as...

    • Posted November 6, 2024
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  • Drowsy Driving: Not Taken as Seriously as Drunk Driving, But It Can Kill

    Folks are more likely to drive drowsy than drive drunk, even though both raise the risk of a fatal crash, a new survey shows. About 4 in 10 adults say they’ll find alternative transportation when they haven’t...

    • Posted November 6, 2024
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  • COVID Vaccine Mistrust Levels Aren’t Budging, Study Finds

    More than a third of Americans continue to express mistrust in the science behind COVID vaccines, a new study finds. This level of mistrust has remained relatively consistent, expressed by 36% of people in 2021, 33% in...

    • Posted November 6, 2024
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  • PCOS Plus Obesity Can Be Hazardous in Pregnancy

    Women who are pregnant but who also have the ovarian cyst disorder polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are at higher odds of giving birth to an underweight baby, new Norwegian research shows. The risk rises even higher if...

    • Posted November 6, 2024
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  • Mpox Spread in Congo May Be Slowing

    In an early sign that the mpox outbreak in Africa might be ebbing, some health officials report that case counts seem to be stabilizing in the Congo, the epicenter of the outbreak. The World Health Organization first...

    • Posted November 5, 2024
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  • Fish Oil Supplements Might Help Prevent Cancer

    The omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in fish oil supplements might help protect people from cancer, a new study claims. Study participants with higher levels of omega-3s had lower rates of colon, stomach, lung and other digestive...

    • Posted November 5, 2024
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  • A Visit to the ER Can Often Precede a Cancer Diagnosis

    Canadian researchers have found that about 1 in every 3 people newly diagnosed with cancer experienced at least one emergency department visit sometime during the three months prior to their diagnosis. Many of the visits ended up...

    • Posted November 5, 2024
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  • Medicaid Covers GLP-1 Meds for Obesity in Just 13 States

    Poorer folks’ access to blockbuster weight-loss drugs through Medicaid remains limited, a new KFF analysis has found. Only 13 states currently allow Medicaid to cover treatment of obesity using glucagon-like peptide-1 agonist (GLP-1) medications, researchers discovered. Under...

    • Posted November 5, 2024
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  • Why Treatments Can Fail Folks With ‘Wet’ Macular Degeneration — and What Might Really Work

    Current treatments sometimes fail to help people with “wet” age-related macular degeneration — and researchers now think they know why. Wet AMD is caused by an overgrowth of blood vessels in the retina, the light-sensing tissue at...

    • Posted November 5, 2024
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  • Banning Menthol Cigarettes Might Drive Smokers to Quit-Smoking Therapies

    Banning menthol cigarettes could help convince smokers quit the habit, a new study finds. People who prefer menthol cigarettes would rather buy nicotine gum or other nicotine replacement therapies than switch to traditional tobacco cigarettes, researchers reported...

    • Posted November 5, 2024
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