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Injecting illegal drugs ups risk for death after heart surgery
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Biomarker blood test could reveal high risk heart patients in need of treatment
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Low blood oxygen strongly increases sick children’s risk of death
Low blood oxygen is more common in sick children than previously thought, and strongly increases…
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Beyond signaling risk, blood pressure and obesity causally related to lifespan
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Team finds PTSD nearly doubles infection risk
First-of-its-kind study finds people with PTSD were 1.8 times as likely to have any infection…
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Brain scans may provide clues to suicide risk
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Utah Health have…
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Growing—and aging—Hispanic population at risk for dementia
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DNA test reveals if surgery patients are at risk of scarring badly
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Air pollution linked to increased risk of infant death and reduced lung function in children
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