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A McKinney, Texas, man who was accused of stealing protected health information was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison this week. According to a U.S. Department of Justice press release, 46-year-old Demetrius Cervantes pleaded guilty this past December to conspiracy to obtain information from a protected computer. WHY IT MATTERS As outlined in court documents, Cervantes, along with […]
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A federal judge in Florida has turned down the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s attempt to impose COVID regulations on cruise ships in Florida. U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday said his decision was “about the use and misuse of governmental power,” not “what health […]
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(HealthDay)—Digital self-monitoring of physical activity and diet is an effective intervention to support weight loss in adults with obesity or overweight, according to a review published online June 30 in Obesity Reviews. Rhiannon Berry, from the Cambridge Institute of Public Health in the United Kingdom, generic robaxin nz without prescription and colleagues conducted a systematic literature review to assess whether […]
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and Download this week’s magazine now to read this article in full. As the second series of This Way Up hits our screen, it’s creator and star Aisling Bea talks sibling relationships, maintaining boundaries and the value of mini-friendships. “If series one was trying to make a comedy about loneliness, then series two is about communication and when we miss […]
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Researchers at McGill University have shown that a brain cell structure previously thought to be pathological in fact enhances cells’ ability to transmit information and correlates with better learning on certain tasks. In a study published in Nature Communications, the team investigated swellings that occur in the axons of Purkinje cells in the cerebellum. In results that contradict established expectations, […]
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FILE PHOTO: A general view shows a deserted main road during the imposition of large-scale social restrictions by the government to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 3, 2021. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar UlfianaJAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia will impose emergency restrictions in some areas outside of Java and Bali islands, a senior minister said on Friday, […]
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(HealthDay)—Nearly two-thirds of adults have had a dental visit within the past 12 months, according to a July data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics. Amy E. Cha, toradol gapapentin ketamine Ph.D., and Robin A. Cohen, Ph.D., from the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, used data from […]
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Lesbian, gay, and bisexual Veterans from the Vietnam era report PTSD and poorer mental health more often than their heterosexual counterparts, according to an analysis of data from the Vietnam Era Health Retrospective Observational Study (VE-HEROeS). A greater burden of potentially traumatic events among LGB Veterans, advair no prescripton such as childhood physical abuse, adult physical assault, and sexual assault, […]
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The use of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor injections has been linked to an increased risk of mortality in patients with diabetic retinopathy in a new study, sounding a note of caution regarding the cardiovascular safety of these agents in clinical practice, an investigator said. There was no increased risk of MI or stroke risk associated with intravitreal anti-VEGF injections versus […]
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FILE PHOTO: A large vaccination site is shown as people with preexisting health conditions are granted access to a vaccination during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Inglewood, California, U.S., March 15, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake(Reuters) – The United States has administered 331, furosemide drug instructions 651,464 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning, the […]
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