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| War vets face long-term brain risk (UPI) |
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A U.S. report says military personnel who suffer traumatic brain injury face an increased risk for dementia, depression and other conditions. |
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| Living with AIDS (KYIV Post) |
| Oleksiy Boyko Maksym Nikolayenko, an AIDS patient who also works at the government-owned Lavra AIDS Clinic at the Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, says Ukraine needs to make more progress in fighting the epidemic. |
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| Double threat: Deadly lung disease also linked to heart attacks (EurekAlert!) |
| ( American Thoracic Society ) Patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are three times as likely to experience severe coronary events -- including heart attacks -- than people without the disease, according to a recent study that analyzed the risk of cardiovascular disease in nearly 1,000 patients with IPF and more than 3,500 matched controls. |
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| Pseudoephedrine Use Common Among Young Children (Medical News Today) |
| Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found that exposure to pseudoephedrine, a decongestant found in many cough-and-cold and allergy medications, has been common among U.S. children, especially those under the age of two years who are at the highest risk for toxicity and for whom safe dosing recommendations are lacking. |
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