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Aug 8, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Rohan Rajeev
Hunger killed an estimated 4 million people in Ukraine between 1932 and 1933 — the result of Holodomor, a famine inflicted by the Stalin-led Soviet regime. New research shows how the harm experienced during famines can extend even to people who haven’t yet been born. The study, published Thursday in Science, strengthens the link between fetal exposure to famine and increased risk for type 2 diabetes later on in life.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Rohan Rajeev
Untreated vision loss and high LDL cholesterol have been added as two new potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia in a report released Wednesday by the Lancet Commission. These new additions join 12 other risk factors outlined by the commission, affiliated with University College London, in previous reports on dementia prevention, intervention, and care in 2017 and 2020.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Rohan Rajeev
As Vice President Kamala Harris emerges as the likely Democratic candidate in the U.S. presidential race, her background on health care issues ranging from reproductive rights to drug pricing is attracting more attention. A look at the life and work of Harris’ late mother, the prominent breast cancer researcher Shyamala Gopalan, offers insights into the personal connections that have shaped Harris’ views on health and medicine.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Elizabeth Cooney |Andrew Joseph |Rohan Rajeev |J. Emory Parker
President Biden’s positive test for Covid-19 on Wednesday is a sign of a broader trend: Covid cases are on the rise this summer, gauged by rising wastewater measures and an increase in hospitalizations. Many Americans have likely experienced the uptick firsthand over the past few weeks. They’ve either tested positive themselves or know someone else chagrined to see those two lines bloom on a home test.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Usha Lee McFarling |Rohan Rajeev
Four days after former president Donald Trump was shot in the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania, his medical team has yet to release detailed records of his condition or treatment. And while his campaign has pronounced him to be in good health, numerous experts on gunshot trauma and emergency medicine interviewed by STAT said there could still be outstanding questions.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Rohan Rajeev
This week, the late National Hockey League veteran Greg Johnson was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Johnson died by suicide five years ago at the age of 48, having played 14 seasons in the NHL. It’s the latest sign of the prevalence of CTE, a progressive neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated impacts to the head, in professional contact sports.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Rohan Rajeev
New research found that the GLP-1 class of drugs — glucagon-like peptide receptor agonists — is more effective in mitigating the risk of 10 obesity-associated cancers than its type-2 diabetes drug alternatives. The retrospective study, published Friday in JAMA Network Open, measured results for a cohort of more than 1.6 million patients with type 2 diabetes from 2005 to 2018 who were prescribed GLP-1RAs, insulin, or metformin.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Rohan Rajeev
Fighting Alzheimer’s disease is a race against time. By the time most patients are diagnosed and treated, their cognitive symptoms have already advanced significantly. New research, though, pinpoints protein changes in cerebrospinal fluid highly associated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease. A better biological understanding of the brain disorder could foster new treatments and earlier intervention — as early as 20 years before onset of symptoms according to models from the study.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Rohan Rajeev
New research shows that, in spite of recommendations discouraging use of aspirin in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease among older adults, nearly a third of adults 60 years and older are still using it for this very purpose. The study, published on Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine, found that 18.5 million adults 60 and older without cardiovascular disease reported using preventative aspirin in 2021. Of those, 3.3 million were using the pills without medical advice.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Rohan Rajeev
Rabies has been in global health’s crosshairs for years. Around the world, the viral infection kills about 70,000 people a year — and since as early as 2015, groups including Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, have had plans to shore up vaccine efforts to reduce the number. At one point, Gavi planned to include human rabies vaccines in its 2021 investment strategy — but then the Covid-19 pandemic got in the way. Now, it’s finally taking action.
