Doctors missed my debilitating condition for 20 years – I diagnosed myself
Most evenings I scroll through TikTok to unwind from the stresses of the day. One night last summer, instead of my usual dose of silly cats and Karens in the wild, a video slid onto my FYP that made my…
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UNC Health to join a program with Epic as early adopter of Generative AI
UNC Health will participate as early adopters of Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools through a program with Epic. It will be one of the initial few healthcare systems nationwide to do so. Epic and Microsoft announced a partnership in April to develop…
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Should You Prescribe Bioidentical Hormones for Menopause?
BALTIMORE — The off-label prescribing of compounded, bioidentical hormone therapy — in pills, creams, or pellets — for symptoms of perimenopause or menopause can put physicians at legal risk because the products lack scientific backing, according to an expert at…
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Running makes you physically tougher
More gain, no pain: Walking for 4 hours each week ‘can improve your pain threshold’ People plunged their hands into cold water to test their pain tolerance READ MORE: Tech mogul trying to de-age is injected with teenager’s blood Getting more…
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Namibia Declares Outbreak of Crimean-Congo Fever
WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Namibia has declared an outbreak of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) after one person died of the disease in the capital Windhoek, the government said on Tuesday. The patient was suspected of having the virus when he was…
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People who live to be 90+ with superior thinking skills found to be resilient to Alzheimers pathology in their brains
A University of California, Irvine-led team of researchers has discovered that the oldest-old, those who live to be 90+ and have superior cognitive skills, have similar levels of brain pathology as Alzheimer’s patients, however, they also have less brain pathology…
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Turkish man 'blessed' with the world's longest nose dies
Man ‘blessed’ with the world’s longest nose dies: Turkish 75-year-old boasted a 3½-inch snout… and claimed it gave him a ‘special’ sense of smell Mehmet Özyürek was awarded the Guinness World Record on three occasions He suffered a heart attack…
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Study characterizes how the inflammatory microenvironment of adult mouse prostate changes during aging
A new research paper was published in Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science) Volume 15, Issue 9, entitled, "Highly multiplexed immune profiling throughout adulthood reveals kinetics of lymphocyte infiltration in the aging…
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Heart donors with COVID-19 found to confer higher mortality risk to those receiving new hearts
A team of medical researchers from Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York has found that mortality rates are higher for transplant patients receiving a new heart from a person infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus…
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