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Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Awareness Month – Spread the Word

Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Awareness Month – Spread the Word

Highlights : The Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Awareness Month is observed every year in April in the United States Currently STDs are at a record high Theme: 'Treat Me

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Lack of Vitamin D can Put You at Greater Risk of Diabetes

Lack of Vitamin D can Put You at Greater Risk of Diabetes

Highlights Deficiency of vitamin D poses a great risk for developing diabetes Having blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D above 30 ng/ml can put an individual at one-third of diabetes

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Weight Loss Surgery is Cost Effective: Study

Weight Loss Surgery is Cost Effective: Study

Weight loss surgery is found to be cost effective over 10 years and can save healthcare systems money over a lifetime,

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Sugar Consumption Linked to Poorer Childhood Cognition

Sugar Consumption Linked to Poorer Childhood Cognition

Diets higher in fruits and lower in added sugars may be associated with improved childhood cognition,

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Boosting Female Farmer’s Physical Fitness With a Low-cost Anti-hookworm Drug

Boosting Female Farmer’s Physical Fitness With a Low-cost Anti-hookworm Drug

Treatment with a low-cost deworming drug significantly improved the physical fitness of impoverished female farm workers infected with intestinal parasites known as hookworms. The benefits were seen even in those with low level infections, according

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Hydroxychloroquine Reduces Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Risk in Arthritis

Hydroxychloroquine Reduces Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Risk in Arthritis

Highlights: Hydroxychloroquine, a widely used disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) prescribed to reduce the pain and swelling in rheumatoid arthritis Patients with

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Yogurt: Top Health Benefits of Summer Superfood Revealed

Yogurt: Top Health Benefits of Summer Superfood Revealed

Yogurt, the healthy, thick, creamy, versatile dairy product is filled with nutrition and is equally useful for skin and hair. Nutrition experts have revealed health benefits of yogurt.

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Predicting Future Drug Addiction Based on Brain Activity Patterns

Predicting Future Drug Addiction Based on Brain Activity Patterns

Measuring the brain activity in regions of the brain associated with decision-making among people who use recreational stimulants can predict who will discontinue use and who will develop a drug use disorder, shows new study. The study led by Martin

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Why Do Kids with Asthma Miss Their Medications?

Why Do Kids with Asthma Miss Their Medications?

Children with asthma are not taking their daily dose of anti-asthma drugs. Scientists found that there was a lack of communication among patients, families and pediatric clinicians, reveals a new study.

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New Brain Scan Technique Can Help Detect Neurological Disorders

New Brain Scan Technique Can Help Detect Neurological Disorders

Highlights New insights into how variations in cognitive ability and personality traits can be measured. The new Functional

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Tumor Evolution can Help Predict Prostate Cancer Severity

Tumor Evolution can Help Predict Prostate Cancer Severity

Understanding how the tumor has evolved can assess the aggressiveness of prostate cancer accurately, which helps determine what type of treatment can be given to the patient,

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Erectile Dysfunction Drugs can Now Treat Various Other Conditions

Erectile Dysfunction Drugs can Now Treat Various Other Conditions

Drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction such as phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitors were also found to have clinical uses for a wide variety of conditions, reveals a new study.

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Dementia Patients Being Prescribed Unnecessary Drugs

Dementia Patients Being Prescribed Unnecessary Drugs

Newly-diagnosed patients with dementia are increasingly consuming unnecessary or inappropriate medicines that increase the risk of side effects, finds a new study. "Our study found that following a diagnosis of dementia in older people,

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Promising, New Male Contraceptive Compound Discovered

Promising, New Male Contraceptive Compound Discovered

EP055 compound identified by researchers binds to sperm proteins to significantly slow the overall mobility of the sperm without affecting hormones, making EP055 a potential "male pill" without side effects. Findings of the research published in the

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Naturally Sweet Stevia Better Than Sugar for A Healthier Lifestyle

Naturally Sweet Stevia Better Than Sugar for A Healthier Lifestyle

Hectic lifestyles of today could be one of the major threats for decline in health and general well-being. It is commonly said that, ‘prevention is better than cure’. There has been a sudden surge in the consumption of processed high calories and sugar. But does that mean that consumption of sugary food and drinks should be completely avoided? That need not be the case.

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