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Experts: Trump speech patterns hint of potential cognitive decline
WEBAug 7, 2024 · Trump keeps losing his train of thought. Cognitive experts have theories about why. I n a speech earlier this year, former President Trump was mocking President Biden’s ability to walk through ...
Life expectancy for men in U.S. falls to 73 years - STAT
WEBNov 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 ...
Comparing three Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, J&J - STAT
WEBFeb 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 ...
Ransomware attacks on hospitals: Study outlines patient impact
WEBNov 17, 2023 · During a ransomware attack, that number goes up to 4 out of 100. From 2016 to 2021, we estimate that ransomware attacks killed between 42 and 67 Medicare patients. The true number of deaths caused ...
Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their
WEBJul 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 ...
Medical errors and accidents: an ongoing threat to health| STAT
WEBAug 4, 2021 · A meta-analysis of such studies concluded that the average annual death rate from such errors in the first decade of the 2000s was in the neighborhood of 250,000. That’s more than enough to make ...
Why liver experts renamed NASH to MASH, and NAFLD to MASLD …
WEBDec 28, 2023 · A group of over 200 physicians, public health experts, industry representatives, regulatory officials, and patient advocates made the call in a supermajority vote: Non-alcoholic fatty liver ...
Under new rules, patients can now access all their health ... - STAT
WEBOct 6, 2022 · The allies had D-Day. And now U.S. patients, held down for decades by information hoarders, can rally around a new turning point, October 6, 2022 — the day they got their health data back. Under ...
Breast cancer mastectomy paradox found in new study - STAT
WEBJul 25, 2024 · Breast cancer study reveals a paradox of mastectomy. By Angus Chen. Reprints. The bright white dot in the larger of these MRI images is Stage One breast cancer. Adobe. B reast cancer surgeons have ...