• Supreme Court Won’t Hear Big Tobacco’s Challenge to Cigarette Warning Labels
• Wildfire Smoke Exposure Linked to Dementia Risk
• T-Day Dinner, Post-Election: Experts Offer Tips to Keep Things Calm
• Stroke Guidelines Updated, With Focus on Women and GLP-1s
• Vaping Immediately Changes Your Blood Flow
• Yoga Helps Women Deal With the Mental Stress of Cancer
• Illinois Study Finds Steep Rise in Serious Complications of Pregnancy
• Reaching Age at Which a Parent Died by Suicide Raises Risk in Adult Child
• Could a Common Thyroid Medicine Weaken Bones?
• Long COVID Hits the Young Harder Than the Old, Study Finds

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  Know Your Spring Allergens and the Meds That Can Help

  Spring is in the air, and along with it loads of tree, grass and weed pollen. Sneezing, watery and itchy eyes, runny nose and all the other miseries of seasonal allergies can prevent a person from fully...

  • Posted April 9, 2024
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  Blood Test Spots Early Pancreatic Cancers With 97% Accuracy

  A blood test appears capable of detecting early-stage pancreatic cancers with up to 97% accuracy, a new study reports. The test looks for eight small RNA particles and eight larger DNA markers shed by pancreatic cancers, which...

  • Posted April 8, 2024
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  Watching the Solar Eclipse, Safely

  Today is your last chance until 2044 to see a total eclipse of the sun in the continental United States. But be sure to protect your eyes if you plan to watch the moon block the sun’s...

  • Posted April 8, 2024
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  Today’s Young Adults Are Aging Faster, and That Might Help Spur Cancers

  Younger generations are aging more rapidly, and this could be leading to an increased risk of cancer, a new study says. People born in or after 1965 are 17% more likely to be experiencing accelerated aging compared...

  • Posted April 8, 2024
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  Many Cancer Drugs Still Unproven 5 Years After Accelerated Approval

  New research questions the effectiveness of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated drug approval program after finding that many cancer drugs remain unproven five years later. The study, published Sunday in the Journal of the American...

  • Posted April 8, 2024
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  Therapeutic Vaccine Prevents Pancreatic Cancer’s Recurrence in 3-Year Trial

  A pancreatic cancer vaccine has continued to protect a small group of patients from their cancer coming back, three years after receiving the jab, a new study says. Eight patients have not had their pancreatic cancer recur...

  • Posted April 8, 2024
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  Even a Little Secondhand Smoke Ups Odds for A-Fib

  Just a little exposure to secondhand smoke may increase your risk for the heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation (A-Fib), a new, large study suggests. People who have A-Fib, the world’s most common heart rhythm disorder, are five...

  • Posted April 8, 2024
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  Vaccine-by-Mouth Could Replace Antibiotics in Fighting UTIs

  A new oral vaccine could prove a potential alternative to antibiotics for people with recurring urinary tract infections, a new study says. More than half of patients with recurring UTIs (54%) wound up infection-free for nine years...

  • Posted April 8, 2024
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  Scientists Develop Vaccine Against Lethal Xylazine, Often Mixed With Street Drugs

  (HealthDay news) — A new vaccine might be able to block the toxic effects of the animal tranquilizer xylazine, which is being added to illicit drugs and increasing overdose risk. The vaccine trains the immune system to...

  • Posted April 8, 2024
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  Immunotherapy Before Surgery Might Boost Pancreatic Cancer Survival

  Pancreatic cancer patients may do better if they receive an immunotherapy drug as well as chemotherapy in preparation for surgery, new research suggests. Pancreatic cancer is one of the toughest to treat. Only 12% of patients live...

  • Posted April 8, 2024
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