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Breast really is best! Babies who get their mother’s milk until they are older than one score highest in thinking tests as teens, study finds Oxford University study found those breastfed for a year or more scored best Improvements were equivalent…

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The Best Emollients for Eczema trial has found that no one type of moisturizer is better than another. This study, the first in the world to directly compare different types of moisturizers, highlights the importance of patient education and choice…

As the parents of the 19 children shot dead Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, by a teen gunman grapple with unspeakable grief and funeral preparations, the survivors and their families are dealing with their own angst, and likely much more. While…

UCLA researchers have taken the initial step in identifying what may be an effective way to detect gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) earlier in pregnancy, potentially improving diagnosis and treatment for what is the most common disorder of pregnancy. The study…

A grim prediction made half a decade ago by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health epidemiologists and modelers has come true: More than 100,000 people are now dying from drug overdoses annually in the U.S. The milestone comes as…

Researchers investigated the effects of temperature on sleep quality via wearable sleep-tracking devices. They found that higher nighttime temperatures are linked to poorer sleep quality globally. The study concluded that climate change is projected to erode sleep and widen global…

The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways The clinical value of biologic criteria ― global amyloid burden (A), composite of temporal region of tau PET…

Germany’s health minister says the government plans to suspend a pandemic rule requiring people to show proof of vaccination, a negative test result or recent recovery from COVID-19 to enter the country over the summer. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach told…

Tufts Medicine this week announced that it has succeeded in deploying its digital health ecosystem in the cloud, moving more than 40 disparate applications and its Epic electronic health record to an Amazon Web Services-hosted environment. WHY IT MATTERS  Touted…