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Continue reading »Potential way to improve cancer surgery outcomes by managing nontraditional risk factors
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Persons with Alzheimer’s disease have approximately 30 percent higher risk of head injuries, and 50 percent higher risk of traumatic
Continue reading »Growing up in the countryside reduces an adult’s risk of depression
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Continue reading »Study finds no association between trazodone and reduced dementia risk
In a large UK population-based study, Ian Wong and colleagues at the University of Hong Kong and University College London,
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