A colonoscopy is an exam used to detect changes or abnormalities in the large intestine, or colon, and rectum. It’s an important exam that’s performed
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Why vaccine doses differ for babies, kids, teens and adults: How your immune system changes as you mature
Human beings are born pretty helpless, with a lot of developing to do. And just as you must learn such skills as how to walk,
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Cures for the health insurance enrollment blues
Some countries with national health insurance plans face a basic problem: Not enough people sign up for those programs, and the ones who do tend
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New life for a cancer drug that reprograms pain pathways to treat chronic pain
Chronic pain associated with nerve injury and chronic bone pain from metastatic cancer are unmet medical needs. This sober assertion does not begin to capture
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Antibiotics for appendicitis: CODA study findings finalized
Antibiotics are now an accepted first-line treatment for most people with appendicitis, according to final results of the Comparing Outcomes of antibiotic Drugs and Appendectomy
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Living guidelines for care of kids and teens with COVID-19
Living guidelines for the clinical care of children and adolescents with COVID-19 have been developed with 20 recommendations including the use of corticosteroids as first-line
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Advancing treatment for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
A retrospective study led by Northwestern Medicine investigators found that the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell immunotherapy drug tisagenlecleucel demonstrated safety and efficacy in pediatric
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Cause found for higher sex-specific risk of mortality
A remarkable number of life-threatening diseases manifest more severely in males than in females. One current example is COVID-19 caused by SARS CoV-2. Another example
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How to sleep for longer
Many of us have been wondering how to sleep for longer and it’s little wonder. The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the world with
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USPSTF recommends aspirin for those at high risk for preeclampsia
(HealthDay)—The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends low-dose aspirin for reducing the risk for preeclampsia among those at high risk. This recommendation forms the
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