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Accident victims tend to flood emergency rooms on days with heavy air pollution, a new study shows. The number of patients treated at ERs increase by 10% to 15% on … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

Oct. 15 (UPI) — A global survey of breast cancer patients reveals a gap in support services for managing the mental and physical side effects experienced by those undergoing treatment. … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

People sense millisecond shifts in odor as quickly as they might spot a change in color, new research shows. The study discounts the notion that smell is a “slower” sense … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

Gene therapy could help obese kids avoid health problems associated with excess weight, including arthritis, a new, preliminary study in mice suggests. The gene therapy prompts cells to convert inflammation-causing … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

Half of people who develop blood poisoning, otherwise known as sepsis, are dead within a couple of years, a new study finds. A little more than 50% of patients admitted … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

A simple tweak in available vial sizes of the breakthrough Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi could save Medicare hundreds of millions of dollars each year, a new analysis claims. About 6% of … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

As with any new drug, parents and doctors may worry that the use of GLP-1 weight-loss meds by children and teens might raise psychiatric risks, including the risk for suicide … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

More bystanders are stepping in to administer naloxone to people who’ve overdosed on opioids, a new study shows. Nearly 25,000 OD patients received naloxone from an untrained bystander before paramedics … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

Results from a very small study suggest that a combination of the diabetes drug Ozempic and an innovative new intestinal procedure could help erase the need for insulin in folks … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:

Alison Burke wanted to be there for her daughter following the girl’s diagnosis with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Then she noticed that a lot of what she was learning about ADHD … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor: