Hours after savoring that perfectly grilled steak on a beautiful summer evening, your body turns traitor, declaring war on the very meal you just enjoyed. You begin to feel excruciating itchiness, pain or even swelling that can escalate to…
Category: 5. Health
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Resource-Sharing Consortium Charts The Future In Student Mental Health
Education concepts for success.
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In 2024, Higher Ed Drive detailed how a credit reporting agency warned that higher education would face significant financial pressures in 2025. Data suggests that these financial pressures have increased…
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‘Days Of Wine And Roses’ Depicts The Rapture And Ravage Of Alcoholism
‘Days of Wine and Roses’ is one of many films showcasing the glitz, glamor and gore of alcohol. But Hollywood needs to show that recovery is possible using medications and therapy.
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Over the…
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Fetal autopsies could help prevent stillbirths, but too often they are used to blame mothers for pregnancy loss
About 60 pregnancies per day in the U.S. end in stillbirth.
The best way to find out why a stillbirth occurred is a fetal autopsy – yet these procedures are performed in only 1 in 5 of the over 20,000 stillbirths that occur each year. As…
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With OpenAI Set To Launch GPT-5, Here’s How To Monetize Healthcare GenAI
How will generative AI be monetized in healthcare? Two competing visions are emerging.
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Generative AI is advancing faster than any technology in modern memory. GenAI capabilities continue to double annually, and OpenAI’s GPT-5 model is…
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Researchers discover key social factors that triple long COVID risk
Mass General Brigham investigators led a nationwide study that found that financial hardship, food insecurity, lack of healthcare access, and other social risk factors are linked to higher risks of long COVID.
Long COVID includes a wide range of…
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Lupus often fades with age. Scientists finally know why
Lupus is a “classic” autoimmune disease.
It causes the immune system’s first-line viral defenses — known as interferons — to attack the body. Nearly every organ is at risk, leading to conditions like kidney and heart disease.
But unlike many…
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Many Medicare Cancer Patients Now Have Much Lower Out-Of-Pocket Costs
Former President Joe Biden signed The Inflation Reduction Act in the State Dining Room of the White House August 16, 2022, in Washington, DC. The $737 billion bill focuses on climate change, lower healthcare costs and creating clean energy…
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Perfectly timed cancer combo wipes out tumors by supercharging the immune system
Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) are a group of cancers that affect cells in and around our mouth and nose. With 890,000 new cases and 450,000 deaths annually, HNSCC accounts for roughly 4.5% of cancer diagnoses and deaths…
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