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THURSDAY, Aug. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Public health officials are warning people about the risks of flesh-eating bacterial infections and how to avoid them after the deaths of three older adults on the northeast coast.Two of the deaths from vibr…

THURSDAY, Aug. 17, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Researchers have long understood that people with chronic health conditions, such as heart disease, are at increased risk for depression. The same may be true for people with COVID-19 sympto…

THURSDAY, Aug. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Higher residential levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) are associated with higher rates of incident dementia, according to a study published online Aug. 14 in JAMA Internal Medicine.Boya Zhang, Ph.D., …

THURSDAY, Aug. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — There were significantly greater increases in body mass index (BMI) over time in 10- to 12-year-old youth during the COVID-19 pandemic versus before the pandemic, according to a research letter published onl…

THURSDAY, Aug. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For patients with interhospital transfer for acute stroke, the median door-in-door-out time is 174 minutes, which is longer than current recommendations, according to a study published in the Aug. 15 issue o…

THURSDAY, Aug. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Intravenous magnesium sulfate before preterm birth at 30 to 34 weeks of gestation does not improve child survival free of cerebral palsy, according to a study published in the Aug. 15 issue of the Journal of…

THURSDAY, Aug. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Survivors of common lymphoid neoplasms (LNs) have increased risks for therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome/acute myeloid leukemia (tMDS/AML), although risks have been lower in more recent years, accordin…