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A new study claims Statins are more effective than supplements to cut cholesterol.
A study has shown that dietary supplements, including fish oil and other omega-3 supplements, aren’t effective in preventing heart disease in people with low cholesterol. It compared the impact of these particular supplements to the impact of a low dose of a cholesterol-lowering medication or a placebo, which doesn’t do anything. The study followed over…
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Does Malaria Eradicated at Last?
Tomori said Africa should start paying its health-care workers salaries so that they don’t leave the continent for other countries. He added that African countries should invest 50% of the budget in education and health-care. Happi said Africa should start paying people the salaries they deserve, so that they don’t leave the region for other…
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The symptoms, treatment and what parents should know about rsv in children.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been “overwhelming” children’s hospitals in the US after the 2019 H1N1 outbreak, a doctor said. “I’ve been at Connecticut Children’s for 25 years, and I’ve never seen this level of surge specifically for RSV coming into our hospital,” Dr Juan Salazar, the hospital’s executive vice president and physician in chief,…
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This November, voters in several states will decide on recreational marijuana legalization.
As many as five states in the US including Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota are going to polls next week to vote on whether to legalise recreational marijuana. Earlier, US President Joe Biden’s administration had pardoned people who had been convicted of federal marijuana possession. Under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, marijuana…
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It’s legal to consume magic mushrooms in Oregon but that could change soon.
A PhD candidate at a Dutch medical centre said the fact that there were adverse events related to the drug psilocybin is a good thing. “The fact that there were adverse events associated with the drug is a good thing,” the researcher said. “There were a lot of different reasons (I went on the Jamaica…
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Side effects from the Covid-19 vaccine have links to higher antibody response.
The COVID-19 variant Omicron B.4 accounted for almost one in three new infections in the US last week. The variant BA.5 also accounted for 49.6% of new infections in the country, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. Co-circulating Omicron B.4 has been linked to an increased risk of neurological problems…
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The drugs seem to work for mice without the trip.
A new drug developed at the University of California, San Francisco has been proven to work in a clinical trial of people with treatment-resistant depression. The drug is administered at doses of 25 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. The drug was shown to reduce the effects of a depressive episode by up to two-and-a-half…
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The opinion is that there may not be a turn back from Trumpism.
The latest New York Times/Siena poll suggests that the “conditions that helped Democrats gain” over the summer no longer seem to be in place. It said that Republican enthusiasm has outpaced Democrats’, as more voters have begun tuning into the election. However, Biden said that if Republicans win control of Congress next month, they’ll put…