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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 ...
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Latest Covid surge: New variants, hard-to-find tests, fewer 'novids'
Jul 18, 2024 · The virus, like other pathogens that most people shake off, can still occasionally cause severe cases. It is also still killing a few hundred people each week, the vast majority of whom are older ...
STAT Biotech: Market-moving coverage of new drug development
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Why liver experts renamed NASH to MASH, and NAFLD to MASLD …
Dec 28, 2023 · Meanwhile, rates of “fatty liver” gradually began rising. By the late 2010s, MASLD was becoming a full-blown threat, a leading cause of liver failure and need for transplant, a disease costing ...
Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their
Jul 26, 2019 · Belief in natural or alternative medicine is often driven by a distrust of doctors and the pharmaceutical industry. Ironically, the transparency practices at otherwise reliable health sites may ...
Comparing three Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, J&J - STAT
Feb 2, 2021 · This story was last updated on Jan. 31, 2022. S cientific teams around the world have developed successful Covid-19 vaccines in incredibly short order. In a feat that even a couple of years ago ...
The simple reason for the increase in autism diagnosis | STAT
Mar 23, 2023 · O n Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced another increase in the prevalence of autism among children. In a pair of new reports — one focused on 8-year-olds and one ...
Long Covid study: Via imaging, virus found years post-infection
Jul 3, 2024 · The team’s big idea — hypothesizing in early 2020 that, contrary to the popular narrative, Covid would last in the body — was “visionary,” long Covid researcher Ziyad Al-Aly said.