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• Mapping the Exposome: Science Broadens Focus to Environmental Disease Triggers
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• Some Suicide Victims Show No Typical Warning Signs, Study Finds
• ByHeart Formula Faces Lawsuits After Babies Sickened With Botulism

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  Election Fears Are Keeping Americans Awake at Night, Survey Shows

  If anxiety over this year’s presidential election is keeping you up at night, you’re not alone. About 17% of all U.S. adults — a striking 45 million Americans — say the election has negatively impacted their sleep,...

  • Posted October 31, 2024
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  Most Patients Can Keep Using GLP-1 Weight Loss Meds Before Surgeries

  A new guidance issued jointly by groups representing U.S. surgeons, anesthesiologists and gastroenterologists affirms that most people taking popular GLP-1 weight-loss meds can keep taking them in the weeks before a surgery. Concerns had arisen because the...

  • Posted October 31, 2024
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  When This Black Cat Crossed His Path, It Was a Lucky Day for Medicine

  When a black cat named Pepper dropped a dead mouse on the carpet at his owner’s feet on a day back in May 2021, neither of them knew then that it would alert scientists to the arrival...

  • Posted October 31, 2024
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  Staying In: Did Pandemic Shift Americans’ Leisure-Time Habits Permanently?

  The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have created a nation of homebodies in the United States, a new study finds. People are spending nearly an hour less each day doing activities outside the home, researchers reported Oct. 31...

  • Posted October 31, 2024
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  Costs for MS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Meds Keep Rising

  A person battling multiple sclerosis spent an average of $750 in out-of-pocket fees on medicines in 2012, but by 2021 that same patient spent $2,378 annually, a new report finds. Out-of-pocket costs for drugs for neurologic diseases...

  • Posted October 31, 2024
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  With Cases Rising, What You Need to Know About Whooping Cough

  Whooping cough is on the rise in the United States, with cases surging across the nation. It’s important to remember that whooping cough, also known as pertussis, can impact adults as well as kids, according to Infectious...

  • Posted October 31, 2024
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  Halloween Candy: Don’t Get Spooked by All That Sugar

  Sugar overload is a real danger on Halloween, as piles of candy prove a powerful temptation to both Trick-or-Treaters and the folks handing out the goodies. Too many sweet treats can instigate a blood sugar spike followed...

  • Posted October 31, 2024
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  Check Your Cabinet: Some COVID Test Expiration Dates Have Been Extended, FDA Says

  Don’t automatically throw out that old COVID-19 at-home test you just came across in your medicine cabinet. It might still be good, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Some over-the-counter COVID tests have had their...

  • Posted October 31, 2024
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  Diagnostic Device Spots Malaria Without Need for Blood Sample

  Scans using lasers and ultrasound can pick up signs of a malaria infection through the skin, without the need for a blood draw, Yale researchers report. The technology, called Cytophone, could be a real boon for developing...

  • Posted October 31, 2024
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  CDC Confirms Onions as Source of McDonald’s E. Coli Outbreak; Cases Rise to 90 Nationwide

  Onions spread on McDonald’s Quarter Pounders are the definite source of an outbreak of E. coli illness that’s now affected 90 people nationwide, new evidence from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. “Epidemiologic and...

  • Posted October 31, 2024
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