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Peter Attia offers advice on how to live a long, healthy life

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Comment on this storyComment Do you want to live to 100? Thanks to modern medicine, you have a decent chance ...

One Extra Cup of Coffee a Day May Help Avoid Weight Gain. Here’s Why. : ScienceAlert

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Coffee is well recognised as having a positive impact on long-term health. Drinking the equivalent of three to four cups ...

What’s going around? Upper respiratory illness, stomach bugs, COVID

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HOUSTON – What’s going around in the Houston area? Houston Dr. Bazgha Khalid, internal medicine, managing physician, Eldridge Clinic, said ...

Parkinson’s disease may be detectable 20-30 years sooner than diagnosis: Study | Health

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It may be possible to detect signs of Parkinson’s disease 20-30 years before symptoms appear, according to researchers in Australia. ...

Red Blood Cell Transfusion: 2023 AABB International Guidelines | Guidelines | JAMA

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Importance  Red blood cell transfusion is a common medical intervention with benefits and harms. Objective  To provide recommendations for use ...

Getting Covid several times can have an outsize effect on Black people, doctors say

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After contracting Covid for the third time, in May 2022, S. Monet Wahls noticed that her usual fall and winter ...

Early and Empirical High-Dose Cryoprecipitate for Hemorrhage After Traumatic Injury: The CRYOSTAT-2 Randomized Clinical Trial | Emergency Medicine | JAMA

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Key Points Question  Does transfusion of early and empirical high-dose cryoprecipitate in addition to standard care improve survival in bleeding ...

Here’s How Many Stairs You Should Climb a Day for a Healthy Heart

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Key Takeaways A new study found climbing more than five flights of stairs (or 50 stair steps) daily may reduce ...

New AI tool can help doctors detect melanoma with 100% accuracy

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Health Care By Brooke Steinberg Published Oct. 12, 2023, 1:48 p.m. ET Artificial intelligence software can reportedly detect melanomas with ...

Despite rocky rollout, more than 7 million Americans have received updated Covid-19 vaccines, HHS says

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CNN  —  This year’s uptake of the updated Covid-19 vaccine appears to be somewhat slower than last year’s, according to ...