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  Diabetes Run in Your Family? Diet, Exercise Can Still Prevent It

  Folks can overcome their genetic risk for type 2 diabetes through healthy diet and regular exercise, a new study says. A healthy lifestyle reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes by 70% among a group of people...

  • Posted August 9, 2024
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  Hospital Patients Can Bring ‘Superbugs’ Home

  Patients discharged from a hospital stay are bringing antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” home with them, a new study warns. Family members of recently discharged patients are 71 times more likely to get a MRSA infection after their return, compared...

  • Posted August 9, 2024
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  Post-Op Radiation May Give Long-Term Protection Against Breast Cancer’s Return

  Radiation therapy following surgery can keep breast cancer from returning for up to 10 years, a new study claims. The study supports the current standard  of care for early-stage breast cancer, which involves surgery followed by radiation therapy,...

  • Posted August 9, 2024
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  New Upright Scanner Tracks Brain Function While You Walk

  A wearable brain scanner could improve research into Parkinson’s disease, dementia and other debilitating disorders, new research shows. The brain scanner — called the Ambulatory Motion-enabling PET (AMPET) — fits on a person’s head much like a...

  • Posted August 9, 2024
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  How Likely Is It That Autism Recurs in One Family?

  There’s a good chance that if one child in a family has autism, another will also develop the disorder, a new study suggests. Children are seven times more likely to be diagnosed with autism if an older...

  • Posted August 9, 2024
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  Certain Pollens Worse for Triggering Asthma Attacks

  Pollen is a known trigger for seasonal allergies and asthma, but new research suggests that certain plant species release pollen that are especially tough on asthmatics. Species-specific pollen alerts could help keep people with asthma safe, the...

  • Posted August 9, 2024
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  U.S. Deaths Dropped 6% Last Year, as COVID Fell From 3rd to 10th Leading Killer

  Deaths among Americans dropped by a significant 6.1% between 2022 and 2023, a new government tally finds. Much of this was due to COVID-19’s ebbing effect on deaths. During the pandemic, over a million Americans lost their...

  • Posted August 8, 2024
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  Another Listeria Death, Dozens of Hospitalizations in Outbreak Tied to Boar’s Head Deli Meats

  The death toll from listeria linked to tainted Boar’s Head deli meats has risen to three, with nine more cases of the bacterial illness reported in the outbreak, an update issued Thursday by the U.S. Centers for...

  • Posted August 8, 2024
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  Heavy Marijuana Use More Than Triples Odds for Head & Neck Cancers

  People who use marijuana at high levels are putting themselves at more than three times the risk for head and neck cancers, new research warns. The study is perhaps the most rigorous ever conducted on the issue,...

  • Posted August 8, 2024
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  Text Messaging Can Help Teens Kick the Vaping Habit

  An interactive text-message support program can help teenagers quit vaping, a groundbreaking new clinical trial finds. Teens who subscribed to the anonymous program, called This Is Quitting, were 35% more likely to report not vaping nicotine by...

  • Posted August 8, 2024
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