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Life expectancy for men in U.S. falls to 73 years - STAT
Nov 13, 2023 · The picture is especially concerning for men, whose life expectancy is now 73.2 years, compared with women’s 79.1.This 5.9 year gap is the widest between the two genders …
Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their
Jul 26, 2019 · Of all the sites with red ratings, 37% publish false or unfounded health claims. These sites accounted for more than 49 million engagements (shares, likes, comments, etc.) …
Experts: Trump speech patterns hint of potential cognitive decline
Aug 7, 2024 · advertisement. This shifting from topic to topic, with few connections — a pattern of speech called tangentiality — is one of several disjointed and occasionally incoherent verbal …
Comparing three Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, J&J - STAT
Feb 2, 2021 · The interval between Moderna doses is 28 days; for the Pfizer vaccine, it’s 21 days. Each dose of Pfizer’s contains 30 micrograms of vaccine. Moderna went with a much larger …
Why liver experts renamed NASH to MASH, and NAFLD to MASLD …
Dec 28, 2023 · By the late 2010s, MASLD was becoming a full-blown threat, a leading cause of liver failure and need for transplant, a disease costing the U.S. health care system about $100 …
Two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020
Jun 9, 2021 · More than two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020, new STAT analysis shows. STAT’s tool allows users to visualize individual drug companies’ …
Trump ear injury: Gunshot trauma experts offer general …
Jul 17, 2024 · Andrew Harnik/Getty Images. S ix 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 …
New guidelines on severe brain injury complicate already difficult ...
Jul 29, 2019 · The current practice in most ICUs is to help families make a decision about whether to withdraw life support within the first three to five days of the injury. A recent review stated …
The history of OxyContin, told through Purdue Pharma documents …
June 15, 1993 to April 15, 1994: Purdue conducted a clinical trial in elderly patients with osteoarthritis to test the safety and efficacy of OxyContin. It enrolled 133 patients, but only 63 ...