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4 days ago | 
upi.com | Don Jacobson
ST. PAUL, Minn., June 2 (UPI) -- Regularly consuming coffee during middle age may provide a health boost for women as they get older, according to a finding unveiled Monday based on preliminary analysis of tens of thousands of health records.
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1 week ago | 
upi.com | Don Jacobson
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 30 (UPI) -- The number of cancer survivors living in the United States is continuing its steady increase, rising to an estimated at 18.6 million as of Jan. 1, according to a study published Friday by the American Cancer Society. That number is projected to exceed 22 million by 2035, and is up from 18 million survivors in 2022, the authors found.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Don Jacobson
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 28 (UPI) -- The suspected connection between lack of proper sleep and stroke got stronger Wednesday with the publication of a study associating brain tissue damage and impaired thinking with long in-bed time among post-stroke patients.
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1 week ago | 
upi.com | Don Jacobson
St. PAUL, Minn., May 27 (UPI) -- Women's health advocates say they want to expand the availability of morning-after pills to convenience stores as new state abortion laws sow confusion about their legality and pharmacies are closing nationwide.
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1 week ago | 
upi.com | Don Jacobson
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 25 (UPI) -- A new rapid blood test for newborns could potentially detect genetic mutations linked to thousands of rare diseases all at once, greatly improving on current inefficient detection methods, according to a study to be presented Monday.
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2 weeks ago | 
thenewstribune.com | Don Jacobson
A new AI tool called "Sybil" has proven strongly accurate at predicting whether a non-smoking patient will develop lung cancer based on the analysis of a single low-dose chest CT scan, according to a study released Monday. File Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/UPI ST.
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2 weeks ago | 
upi.com | Don Jacobson
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 19 (UPI) -- With lung cancer rates among non-smokers rising, especially young East Asian women, a new study released Monday is touting the promise of an artificial intelligence tool to "strongly" predict who's most at risk. Lung cancer has long been associated with smoking.
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3 weeks ago | 
upi.com | Don Jacobson
St. PAUL, Minn., May 15 (UPI) -- Millions of "long COVID" patients coping with debilitating "brain fog" and chronic fatigue, who are looking for answers to what's at the root of their illness, received a hopeful sign through a new study released Thursday. The answers, though somewhat complex, appear to be biological and neurological, authors of the study said. In other words, it's not just in patients' heads.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsobserver.com | Don Jacobson
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 13 (UPI) -- Consumers might notice more people these days taking cellphone photos of products on supermarket shelves. What they actually are doing is checking those products via their bar codes to determine how healthy or unhealthy they are. Such checking clears away the haze of advertising and label claims and gets down to the basic question: Is this product nutritional or safe or is it potentially harmful?
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Don Jacobson
May 8 (UPI) -- Rapidly rising rates of heart disease across Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania are being driven by differing, localized consequences of industrialization and rapid economic growth, according to research released Thursday.
