(HealthDay)—It’s your worst nightmare: As doctors race to save your life while performing CPR, you’re actually awake and conscious of
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5 best essential oils for nausea and how to use them
Essential oils come from plants. The extraction and distillation of the oils create a highly concentrated form of the plant.
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Current marketing health claims for ‘sexbots’ misleading
The current marketing health claims made for ‘sexbots’—lifelike robots specifically created for sexual gratification—are misleading as there is no good
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Benefit of liposomal bupivacaine for pain in TKA questioned
(HealthDay)—Liposomal bupivacaine use in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty is not associated with clinically meaningful reductions in inpatient opioid use,
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Is chemo for breast cancer overprescribed?
While new therapies such as immunotherapies are becoming increasingly crucial in treating cancer, chemotherapy is still a mainstay. In short,
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Increase in lifestyle-related cancers over past decade spotlights need for prevention
Lifestyle-related cancers, such as lung, colorectal, and skin cancers, have increased globally over the past decade, according to the most
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Trial shows how PET scans help tailor therapy for esophageal cancer
Survival results for the CALGB 80303 Trial presented today at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2018
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Knowledge gaps found for non-drug therapy in peds ADHD
(HealthDay)—There are considerable gaps in knowledge relating to the effectiveness of non-pharmacologic treatments for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in pediatric patients,
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‘Disneyland for Big Tobacco’—how Indonesia’s lax smoking laws are getting the next generation hooked
With more than 260m people, Indonesia is the biggest economy in South-East Asia. The country’s young population – 37% are
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Mobile app for autism screening yields useful data
A Duke study of an iPhone app to screen young children for signs of autism has found that the app
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