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Patients with cardiac devices do not adhere to driving ban
Nearly one-third of patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) resume driving despite it being medically contraindicated — a practice
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Using a smartphone to detect norovirus
A little bit of norovirus — the highly infectious microbe that causes about 20 million cases of food poisoning in
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Medical mistrust impacts African American men’s preventive health, but racism also matters
Mistrust of health care providers, fueled by painful experiences with racism, makes African American men more likely to delay routine
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Health professionals wary of medicinal cannabis misuse and adverse effects
A Queensland University of Technology (QUT) analysis of studies gauging attitudes to medicinal cannabis has found that while health professionals
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Identifying factors that influence mercury levels in tuna
Most consumers’ exposure to toxic methylmercury occurs when they eat fish. But research just published in the ACS journal Environmental
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Flint, Michigan lead crisis should have buried the city in water bottles. So, why didn’t it? Study calls for dealing with waste before it burdens an emergency response
One hundred thousand residents of Flint, Michigan could only use water from bottles or filters during a years-long lead contamination
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Unprecedented study finds US ranks 27th among nations investing in education, health care: Nation’s 2016 ranking plummets from 6th in 1990; China sees increase in ranking from 69th to 44th
The United States ranks 27th in the world for its investments in education and health care as measurements of its
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Restoring blood flow may be best option to save your life and limb
Treatments that restore blood flow to the lower limbs of people with a serious circulation condition may be cheaper and
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Lynchings of the past affect health today: Analysis shows that US counties with a history of lynching events have higher contemporary mortality rates for whites and blacks
Counties with higher rates of lynching between 1877 and 1950 showed higher mortality rates between 2010 and 2014. A new
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