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Records from the births of more than 158,000 children suggest that method of birth and newborn feeding practices can influence future health.
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Use of marijuana is linked to a higher risk of stroke and hospitalization for cardiac arrhythmia in young people, two new studies suggest.
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New study suggests that a 'threshold' of weight loss must be reached after bariatric surgery to see a reduced risk of obesity-related cancer. Another indicates risk may be reduced by around 20%.
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Might plasma steroid profiles have a diagnostic role in the evaluation of subclinical Cushing syndrome?
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

After many years of stroke being subsumed within other parts of ICD, it now is listed under neurology. Once classified as a circulatory problem, stroke is a brain disorder in the new ICD-11.
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Improvements in HbA1c and NASH biomarker favored the procedure over sham procedure in first-ever randomized, double-blind prospective study.
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Artificial intelligence is already making significant improvements to clinical decision-making and cancer detection, according to UK data, even while the potential implications have yet to be fully realised.
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Is the FGSI score a valid tool for predicting clinical outcomes of patients with Fournier's gangrene?
Translational Andrology and Urology

The Wright brothers studied how birds fly before the aviation pioneers built the world's first successful airplane. Now, investigators are looking at new animal-inspired ideas for joint care.
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Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy is associated with higher infection rates in children with normal CYP2C19 function, with infections occurring in 40% of such infants in a retrospective study.
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A small pilot study finds that vaping CBD products might lead to a positive urine test for marijuana, researchers report.
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Almost 12% of couples with recurrent miscarriage have chromosomal abnormalities, according to results of low-pass genome sequencing (GS) studies.
Reuters Health Information

Vitamin E acetate was universally found in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples from patients with vaping lung injury, providing the first direct evidence of vitamin E acetate at the site of injury.
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Neither vitamin D3 nor omega-3 fatty acids affected eGFR at 5 years in a sub-study of the VITAL trial. Doctors need to make it clear to patients that there are no benefits of these supplements, says author.
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Centers of excellence are seeing much improved survival rates for anaplastic thyroid cancer; upcoming guidelines from ATA will underscore best practices for genetic testing and treatment regimens.
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A benign course of multiple sclerosis is rare, but a 5-year study shows younger patient age, earlier disease onset, female gender, and other factors may predict which MS cases will be benign.
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Robert Folberg's success was 2 decades in the making after his team discovered vasculogenic mimicry. Their original report received a frosty reception, but has since been cited more than 1900 times.
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Updates to European prostate cancer guidelines are already being considered after a major study shows that men carrying mutations of the BRCA2 gene have an increased risk for the disease at an earlier age.
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The results suggest that vascular risk monitoring should begin earlier than it currently occurs in order to prevent future dementia risk, researchers say.
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