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THURSDAY, April 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — America’s teens are still not alright.Instead, many continue to engage in risky behaviors, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.Top among these is an increase in suicidal thoughts and suicide planning an…
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THURSDAY, April 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Jobs that regularly expose you to certain chemicals appear to steadily increase your risk of pancreatic cancer, a new analysis reports.People with more than 20 years of exposure to some chemical agents had …
Learn MoreBCG Vaccine Does Not Reduce COVID-19 Risk for Health Care Workers
THURSDAY, April 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine does not result in lower risk for COVID-19 for health care workers, according to a study published in the April 27 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.Laur…
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THURSDAY, April 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For patients with traumatic acute subdural hematoma, disability and quality-of-life outcomes are similar with craniotomy (bone flap replaced) or decompressive craniectomy (bone flap not replaced), according…
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THURSDAY, April 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For pediatric Crohn disease (PCD) patients, treatment with methotrexate combined with adalimumab, but not infliximab, is associated with a reduction in treatment failure, according to a study published onli…
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THURSDAY, April 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For infants younger than 1 year of age with newly diagnosed KMT2A-rearranged acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a bispecific T-cell engager molecule targeting CD19, blinatumomab, is safe and has a high lev…
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THURSDAY, April 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Breast cancer-specific survival is shorter in women from disadvantaged neighborhoods versus advantaged neighborhoods, according to a study published online April 21 in JAMA Network Open.Neha Goel, M.D., fro…
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