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Hearing Loss, Neuropathy Cut Survival in Older Adults
“Like peripheral neuropathy, advanced-age hearing loss is associated with reduced life expectancy, probably mediated in part through an adverse...
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Mobile App Shows Promise in Managing Fibromyalgia Symptoms
“The results found in the study are essential for professionals who care for patients with fibromyalgia as they present a new viable treatment...
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Clinical Controversy: Watch-and-Wait or Surgery in Rectal Cancer Near Complete Responders?
Watch-and-wait for near-complete clinical responders is “very controversial.”
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New Tourniquet: The AED for Bleeding?
Inflatable tourniquet device may help stop bleeding in trauma situations, a common preventable cause of death.
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Regularly Drinking Alcohol After Age 60 Linked to Early Death
High-risk drinking was linked to a 33% increased risk of early death, a 39% increased risk of dying from cancer, and a 21% increased risk of dying...
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Dementia Deemed Highly Preventable: Here’s How
Modifying 14 risk factors can benefit everyone, irrespective of genetic risk, reduce their dementia risk.
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One in Ten Chronic Pain Patients May Develop Opioid Use Disorder
Clinicians need to gauge the true extent of the problem, change prescribing guidance if necessary, and develop and implement effective...
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FIT Screening Cuts Colorectal Cancer Mortality by One Third
Researchers used data from two health systems with long-standing programs of mailing FITs to compare 1103 cases of adults who had died of CRC with...
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Colorectal Cancer: New Primary Care Method Predicts Onset Within Next 2 Years
Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study of 50,387 UK Biobank participants reporting a CRC symptom in primary care at age 40 years or...
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Stool-Based Methylation Test May Improve CRC Screening
The mSDC2 assay could improve the efficacy and resource utilization of existing screening programs.