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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 since 1996. “Across ...
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.) on social media in the ...
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 habits that ...
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 dose of vaccine ...
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 billion annually. It ...
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’ corporate PAC spending ...
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 of his condition or ...
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 that 72 hours ...
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 ...