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Misleading Popular Videos Impact Attitudes About Tobacco
TUESDAY, July 10, 2018 — Misleading portrayals of tobacco’s health consequences in popular YouTube videos can increase positivity toward featured
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Lena Dunham Just Shared Her 24-Pound Weight Gain to Prove Slimming Down Isn’t the Key to Happiness
Before-and-after posts are nothing new in the age of Instagram. But the always-candid Lena Dunham just showed us a celebrity’s
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Gene editing shown to lower cholesterol in monkeys
Hypercholesterolemia, which is a cardiovascular condition, puts people at an extremely high risk of coronary artery disease due to the
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Drug’s impact on amino acid transporter may offer non-small cell lung cancer patients new hope
An amino acid transporter named xCT may affect the growth and progression of non-small cell lung cancer, a discovery that
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How Psoriasis Affects Your Everyday Life
Psoriasis is a skin condition in which skin cells build on each other and form dry patches that are often
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Pay less, take more: Success in getting patients to take their medicine: Basing patients’ medication costs on the health benefits they’ll get from a drug, rather than its price, means they’re more likely to take it
Taking a medicine every day in the hopes that it will prevent some long-range potential health catastrophe — like a
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Why are some medicines so expensive today?
Nearly 90% of prescriptions are for generic medicines. The other 10% tend to be for innovative medicines—many of which are
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Admit It: Your Salad Needs A Makeover
Sunshine. Beaches. Koalas. These three words may immediately come to mind when you think about Australia, but the one that
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Health Tip: Travel Tips For Women With Breast Prosthesis
— After a mastectomy, many women prefer to wear a prosthesis, in lieu of reconstructive surgery. The prosthesis often is
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Platypus Venom May Help in Battle Against Diabetes
An Australian researcher says the venom of the strange duck-like mammal contains a hormone that helps the pancreas produce insulin.
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