Antipsychotics Boost Dementia Patients' Health Risks
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Antipsychotics can substantially increase dementia patients' risk of many serious health problems, a new study warns. Dementia patients prescribed antipsychotics have increased risk of stroke, blood clots, heart attack, heart failure, bone fractures, pneumonia and kidney ..read more
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New Urine Test Spots Head-and-Neck Cancers Earlier
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A newly developed at-home urine test could potentially help doctors catch head and neck cancers earlier, a new study suggests. The test looks for tiny DNA fragments sloughed off by tumor cells, which pass from the bloodstream into urine through the kidneys, researchers ..read more
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After COVID, WHO Defines Airborne Disease
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The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID-19 pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives. The Geneva-based U.N. health ..read more
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Challenging Work Keeps You Sharp With Age
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Jobs that challenge your mind could help your brain age more gracefully, a new study suggests.The harder your brain works on the job, the less likely you are to have memory and thinking problems later in life, researchers reported April 17 in the journal Neurology ..read more
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Weight-Loss Drug Zepbound Cuts Sleep Apnea Severity
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Eli Lilly says its weight-loss drug helped reduce episodes of irregular breathing associated with a common sleep-related disorder in two late-stage trials, paving the way for expanding use of the drug. The drug cut the frequency of irregular breathing episodes by as much as ..read more
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FDA: Most Mounjaro, Zepbound Doses in Limited Supply
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Most doses of Eli Lilly's diabetes drug Mounjaro and weight-loss drug Zepbound would be in limited supply through the second quarter of this year due to increased demand, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's website showed on Wednesday. Both drugs had limited availability ..read more
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Two-Drug Combo Effective Against Severe Alcoholism
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A combo of an allergy drug and a blood pressure med appears to lower daily drinking in folks battling severe alcoholism, French researchers report. The two generic drugs are the antihistamine cyproheptadine and prazosin, which treats high blood pressure and urinary urgency ..read more
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Birth Control Pill May Lower Risk for Sports Injuries
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Active women using the pill appear to receive an added bonus from their birth control, a new study says. These women are less likely to suffer sprains and strains than women not on birth control, researchers reported recently in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & ..read more
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You Can Learn to Be Happy
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A new study reveals that happiness can be learned if you work at it. Like most things in life, practice makes - almost - perfect. The team behind the University of Bristol's "Science of Happiness" course had already found that teaching students the research on happiness ..read more
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Schweppes Sugar-Free Ginger Ale Recalled
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PepsiCo initiated a voluntary recall for more than 230 cases of sugar-and caffeine-free Schweppes Ginger Ale for containing "full sugar" and being unsafe for some people to drink, according to USA Today. The recall was issued last month for the defective product that was ..read more
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