• 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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  Urine Test Could Cut Need for Painful Bladder Cancer Procedure

  A new urine test could spare bladder cancer survivors from a painful follow-up procedure needed to ensure their cancer hasn’t come back, researchers report. People who’ve gotten surgery for high-risk bladder cancer require a cystoscopy — a...

  • Posted April 8, 2024
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  Even HIV Patients Without Symptoms May Have Underlying Heart Trouble

  People with HIV could have an increased risk of heart disease even if they aren’t suffering any symptoms related to their infection, a new study finds. Middle-aged people living with HIV were more likely to have early...

  • Posted April 5, 2024
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  Cancer Cases Set to Soar 77% by 2050, Thanks to Aging Population

  As the world’s population ages, a new report warns that the number of people with cancer could climb 77% by 2050. In the report, published Thursday in the journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, researchers from the...

  • Posted April 5, 2024
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  Eclipse Viewing Safety: Keeping Your & Your Kid’s Vision Safe

  People preparing to watch Monday’s total eclipse of the sun need to protect their vision during the event, eye doctors say. Powerful ultraviolet rays can do permanent damage to the eyes if people look directly at the...

  • Posted April 5, 2024
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  Have Only Well-Off Americans Gained From Recent Strides Against Heart Disease?

  America is making headway against heart disease, with heart-related deaths declining over the past three decades. But it appears that only the well-to-do have benefitted, a new study shows. Heart attack rates have stayed the same or...

  • Posted April 5, 2024
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  Nerve Zap Treatment for Sleep Apnea Less Effective in Obese People

  Obese folks are less likely to benefit from a nerve-stimulation treatment for sleep apnea that’s recently been made available to them, a new study reports. The treatment is likely to be 75% less effective among obese people...

  • Posted April 5, 2024
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  It May Be Fine to Exercise During Long COVID

  People with Long COVID might be able to exercise to improve their health, something that up to now has been discouraged, a new study suggests. “The World Health Organization and other major bodies have said that...

  • Posted April 5, 2024
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  Suicide Rates Have Doubled in 20 Years Among U.S. College Athletes

  Suicides among U.S. college athletes have doubled over the past two years, according to data from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Suicide is now the second most common cause of death for college athletes after accidents,...

  • Posted April 5, 2024
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  Antipsychotics Help Ease Episodes of Marijuana-Induced Psychosis

  Overuse of marijuana is increasingly being linked to dangerous bouts of psychosis, and a new study finds that antipsychotics may be needed to keep such patients out of the hospital. Psychotic episodes involve a dangerous psychiatric state...

  • Posted April 5, 2024
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  Was the FDA Too Quick Approving Test for Opioid Addiction Risk?

  A test to gauge if it’s safe to prescribe a patient an addictive opioid may have been approved too soon by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, claims a letter sent to the agency by a group...

  • Posted April 5, 2024
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