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Antibiotic Therapy Before Age 2 May Affect Child Health

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1, 2003, and Dec. “The findings from Olmsted County provide evidence for broad and delayed effects of early-life antibiotic exposures, and should change doctors’ practices in how often they prescribe antibiotics, especially for mild conditions,” a coauthor said in a statement. Zaira Aversa, M.D., Abstract/Full Text.

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For Rising Number of People, Obesity Is a Literal Headache

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In the study, IIH rates increased sixfold in Wales between 2003 and 2017 — from 12 per 100,000 people to 76 per 100,000 people. Eye doctors often diagnose IIH during routine exams that look at the back of the eye. During the same 15-year span, obesity rates in Wales rose from 29% of the population to 40%. © 2021 HealthDay.

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Defense-Forward Biosecurity

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Doctors in training are told that when they hear hoofbeats, they should think horses, not zebras; rare diseases are the exception, not the rule. In 2003, the DHS launched the BioWatch program after five people died and twenty fell ill from touching envelopes laced with anthrax spores.

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Marquis Who’s Who Honors James D. McChesney, PhD, with Inclusion in Who’s Who in the World

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He continued his education at Indiana University, where he completed a Master of Arts in botany in 1964, and a Doctor of Philosophy in organic chemistry in 1965. departing in 2003 to become the chief scientific officer for Tapestry Pharmaceuticals and ChromaDex Inc. In 2009, he established Ironstone Separations Inc.,

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Rap Music Is Putting Mental Health in the Spotlight

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. “I think anyone who’s been a fan of rap music across the last two decades — myself included — had a feeling this was happening,” said study author Alex Kresovich, a doctoral fellow in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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On Fables and Nuanced Charts

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deaths per 100,000 women in 2003 to close to 1 per 100,000 in 2020. ” The ICD also recommended “pregnancy checkboxes” on death certificates to help doctors catch more pregnancy-related deaths. Just consider the U.S. maternal mortality statistics, which seem to show maternal deaths rising from 0.4

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Welcome to Asimov Press

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A first draft of the human genome was completed in 2003. When Ignaz Semmelweis suggested that doctors at an Austrian Hospital wash their hands between performing autopsies and delivering babies, the maternal mortality rate fell from around 25 percent to 1 percent. At least six CAR-T cancer therapies have now garnered F.D.A.