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‘Calculators’ Doctors Use May Overestimate Heart Risks, Study Says

Such assessments should only be starting points for predicting risk, researcher explains By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter The various “calculators” that doctors use to estimate patients’ odds of future heart trouble often overestimate the risks, a new study suggests. Researchers found that four of five…

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Extra vitamin E may protect elderly from getting common pneumonia

Extra vitamin E protected older mice from a bacterial infection that commonly causes pneumonia. Microbiologists and nutrition researchers from Tufts University report that the extra vitamin E helped regulate the mice’s immune system. The findings, published online in advance of print in the The Journal…

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Researchers Wish to Backhack Nervous System to Crack Infection Code

By Heather Callaghan Infectious and auto-immune disease and the nervous system – a connection? Inflammation from disease and the central nervous system have always been studied independently of each other…until now. Basic science researchers are now trying to decipher ‘neural code’ of information being sent…

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Study Admits Why You Are Disoriented Long After Surgery

By Heather Callaghan University of Toronto researchers discover why anesthetics cause prolonged memory loss If you ever suspected that things weren’t quite right after going under anesthesia – you were right! Anesthetics are serious business. Students taking their clinical internships who happen to prick their…

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Medical marijuana states have 25% fewer deaths by opiates: Study

Results suggest medical marijuana laws may have unexpected benefits On average, states allowing the medical use of marijuana have lower rates of deaths resulting from opioid analgesic overdoses than states without such laws. Opioid analgesics, such as OxyContin, Percocet and Vicodin, are prescribed for moderate…

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